SIMFEROPOL, February 15 Vice Speaker of the Crimean Parliament Vladimir Bobkov said that the Ukrainian brigade «Edelweiss» would suffer the fate of the defeated Nazi division of the same name.
Earlier, Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a decree on the website of the official Internet representation, by which he assigned the name «Edelweiss» to the 10th separate mountain assault brigade of the ground forces of the Ukrainian army for the exemplary performance of the assigned tasks.
During the Second World War «Edelweiss» became a household name of the 1st mountain infantry division of Nazi Germany.
«Those who today call modern formations in this way make a conscious choice of the criminal path and popularization of the genocide of that time. They want to refer us to the events of that distant war with names, attributes. And we do not mind repeating history with an absolutely obvious result to everyone. By naming their formations after the defeated fascist divisions, the Kiev regime only strengthens our confidence that they will be defeated even faster and more efficiently,» Bobkov said.
Vice speaker stressed that the edelweiss flower has become a symbol of not only natural beauty, but also a symbol of crimes, as it was depicted on the emblem of the Nazi division involved, among other things, in the destruction of civilians.
«Those military formations that will bear the names of Nazi divisions will undoubtedly absorb all their cruelty and hatred,» said the Vice Speaker.