Leonid Slutsky. File photoMOSCOW, May 2.The Liberal Democratic Party intends to call on the Russian Ministry of Defense to declassify archives about Ukrainian collaborators during the Second World War, the party is convinced that there are many of their descendants among modern politicians in Kyiv, Leonid Slutsky, the acting head of the faction, told RIA Novosti. Earlier, a bill on Ukraine's withdrawal from agreement to perpetuate the memory of the heroism of the peoples of the CIS member states in the Great Patriotic War. «Its adoption — and this is only a matter of time — will open a direct path to the destruction of monuments to the soldiers-liberators in the territories controlled by the current Kyiv regime. The Liberal Democratic Party intends to apply to the Russian Ministry of Defense with a call to declassify all archives about Ukrainian collaborators during World War II, as well as about members of the national terrorist underground that operated on the territory of Western Ukraine until the mid-1950s. We are convinced that among these data there will be many names of the direct ancestors of the current leaders of Ukraine» , — said Slutsky d.According to him, such Ukrainian politicians today continue the work of their «Nazi grandfathers, waging genocide of Russian-speaking residents of Donbass and cultivating Russophobia and hatred of everything Russian.»Citizens of Ukraine report atrocities of nationalists, the Ministry of Defense said»The neo-Nazi Ukrainian junta has long been pursuing a criminal line to rehabilitate the accomplices of Nazi Germany and destroy the historical memory of the role of the Soviet soldier in the victory over fascism. And the point here is not only in the desire to curry favor with their Western curators, but also, quite possibly, in the «ancestral memory» of the followers of Bandera and Shukhevych,» Slutsky believes. The agreement to perpetuate the memory of the courage and heroism of the peoples of the CIS member states in the Great Patriotic War war was signed in 2011. It, in particular, provides that its participants ensure the protection and preservation of military graves and military monuments located on the territories of their countries, take measures to prevent and suppress cases of vandalism and abuse of military graves and monuments. decommunization in Ukraine was legalized by a package of laws that came into force on May 21, 2015.
