The Russian Foreign Ministry called the law adopted in Ukraine to recognize the communist regime criminal

The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the day before the law on the recognition of the criminal communist regime, which operated in the country from 1917 to 1991. The department drew attention to the fact that Soviet totalitarianism in the new Ukrainian law was convicted along with Nazism, the denial of crime of both this and the other regime will be punishable. The Foreign Ministry called such a "equalization" of communism and Nazism an insult for veterans who fought with Hitler Germany, as well as for ordinary people who lived under the "criminal regime". In addition, the “heroization” of the OUN/UPA fighters was subjected to condemnation of the Russian authorities.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that the Ukrainian authorities, focusing only on the repressions of the Soviet regime and the Holodomor , "are trying to erase from the memory of millions of Ukrainians the pages of the true history of Ukraine of the 20th century, its progressive development in the Soviet Union." "It is not clear what many generations of Ukrainians do in practice ... not participating in the nationalist dissident movement," the press release on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. And the ban on Soviet symbols lays the foundations for the dismantling of a huge number of monuments, which in the Russian Foreign Ministry was called "vandalism at the state level."

- Ukrainian rebel army (certificate)

In addition, the indignation of the Russian foreign policy was a comparison of "fascist aggressors and fighters for the liberation of the country from fascism", as well as "the heroization of accomplices of the Nazis represented by the OUN/UPA." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that an attempt to eradicate the term "Great Patriotic War", which will be replaced by the "Second World War", the Ukrainian authorities "cause deep offense to their veterans."

According to the Russian Federation, such actions are not only “blasphemous”, but also establish “censorship of political thought”, limiting the freedom of thought, conscience and beliefs. “Verily totalitarian methods of eliminating objectionable parties, public organizations and movements are introduced,” the Russian Foreign Ministry was lamented. They suggested that the laws adopted by Ukraine contradict the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, as well as resolutions of 69/160 UN General Assembly, Neo -Nazism and other types of practice that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, racial discrimination, racial discrimination. xenophobia and intolerance associated with them. "

The essence of the law on condemnation of totalitarian regimes

It should be noted that the law, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada, but has not yet been signed by the president, is introducing a ban on justification and propaganda of both the Nazi and communist regimes that existed in Ukraine. Both of them are considered totalitarian.

By communist "criminal regime" is meant Soviet. The "communist parties" mean the communist parties of the Union republics that were part of the USSR, as well as the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party (Bolsheviks), the RSDLP (b). The propaganda is "public denial, including through the media, the criminal nature of the communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991 in Ukraine." In addition, the denial of the crime of the Nazi regime in Ukrainian territory will be punishable.

A violation will be the public use of products containing the symbols of communists and Nazis. The “anthem of the USSR” (text or music is not specified by the forbidden, among other things), “quotes of persons holding leading positions in the Communist Party”, as well as any attributes in which “a combination of sickle and hammer is reproduced” and even “monuments dedicated to the events related to the activities of the Communist Party”. The same applies to the attributes of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (NSDAP). Thus, now in Ukraine the Communist Party (KPU), which actively uses Soviet symbolism, was banned. In addition, the procedure for renaming settlements related to the USSR era is discussed.

The members of the OUN-UPA (Ukrainian rebel army) were recognized as fighters for independence who fought with the criminal regime. The Verkhovna Rada also adopted a law that provides for the opening of all archives of the "repressive bodies" of the USSR in Ukraine from 1917 to 1991.

In addition, the Rada adopted a bill, which establishes on May 9 by the day of victory over fascism in the Second World War (and not in the Great Patriotic War). The explanatory note to the documentnotes that "two criminal totalitarian regimes were untied by the Second World War." President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko the day before stated that the Secretary General of the USSR Joseph Stalin no less than the Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler is to blame for the unleashing of the World War. He also condemned the executions "in the dungeons of the NKVD."

During the current visit to Odessa, the Ukrainian leader once again drew attention to this, indicating that if the Soviet Union and Germany had not signed in 1939 the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with secret protocols on the division of Europe, the Second World War might not have been. He also noted that the USSR without Ukraine would not have won the fight against the Nazis, cites Poroshenko RIA Novosti .

It should be noted that communist ideology is prohibited in a number of countries of post -Soviet Europe: in the Czech Republic there is a law "On the illegality of the Communist regime and resistance against it", in the Republic of Poland, organizations preaching communism are prohibited by the Constitution. Similar legislative acts were adopted in the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian republics.