Ukrainians asking European Parliament to reconsider its negative attitude to Bandera

KYIV, March 4. /UKRINFORM/. Deputies from the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regional councils have submitted addresses to the European Parliament asking it to review paragraph 20 of its resolution on the situation in Ukraine, which was adopted on February 25.

In its resolution, the European Parliament expressed hope that the new Ukrainian leadership would reconsider former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's decision to posthumously award Stepan Bandera, a leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the title of Hero of Ukraine.

The deputies expressed confidence that the European Parliament's decision lacked legal and historical grounds and was based on the slander of the so-called "cooperation" between the OUN and Nazi Germany. These are the echoes of Communist propaganda that in every way blackened the Ukrainian national liberation movement during the Second World War, they said.

In their addresses, the deputies of the regional councils referred to the documents of the Nuremberg process, in which neither Bandera, nor the OUN led by him, nor the Ukrainian Insurgent Army led by General Roman Shukhevych were described as collaborators. They recalled that European public figures had earlier expressed regret that Bandera was killed by an agent of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the Soviet Union, Bogdan Stashynsky, on October 15, 1959.

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