UCRAINA (AVAMPOSTO DELLA NATO NELL'EX-URSS):
LE SS CELEBRATE COME EROI NAZIONALI


Subject: [ML-YU] Ukraine
recognizes SS as national heroes
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:54:36 +0100
From: Nemanja Lukic
To: "Marxism-Leninism, Yugoslavia"
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----- Forwarded message from Barry Stoller -----

AP. 19 March 2002. Ukrainian
regional authorities recognize SS
veterans as national heroes.

KYIV, March 19 - A city council in
western Ukraine has recognized
Ukrainian soldiers who fought with
the Nazis as fighters for freedom
from Soviet rule, allowing them
greater pensions and social benefits.

The Ivano-Frankivsk city council
decided Monday to proclaim 24 veterans
of the Nazi SS Halychyna division as
fighters for Ukrainian
independence, according to the
region's official web site.

The new status would give them
increased pensions and discounts for
communal services, the site said,
citing the press service of the
regional administration.

Representatives of the local Russian
Association protested the decision.

The Halychyna division was created
after Nazis occupied parts of Soviet
Ukraine in the early part of World
War II.

The division functioned in Ukraine's
western regions, and many ethnic
Ukrainians hostile to the Soviet
regime joined.

After the war, Soviet authorities
imprisoned many of the division's
veterans in labor camps as Nazi
collaborators [not surprisingly].