The Communist Party of Poland (KPP) has strongly condemned the glorification of fascist organizations and Nazi collaborators in Ukraine, denouncing a decision by local authorities in Lviv to designate 2027 as a year commemorating criminal Roman Shukhevych, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and Oleh Olzhych.
In a statement published on November 7, the KPP denounced the rehabilitation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), whose members participated in massacres of Polish civilians and other atrocities during the Second World War.
Another disturbing episode of anti-communist frenzy comes from Ukraine as the local authorities of Lviv are planning to dismantle the city's Monument of Glory – a memorial dedicated to the heroic Red Army soldiers - by the end of February 2021. The decision was strongly condemned by the country's communists. Petro Symonenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, said that the dismantling of the monument is “an act of state vandalism and moral terrorism” and added: “This is a crime against the memory of the soldiers of the Red Army, a crime against the memory of compatriots who died in the fight against the fascist infection, it is a slap in the face of the international community and all members of the anti-Hitler coalition”.
