Posted on 05/10/2011 5:00:34 PM PDT by dynachrome
Ukraine is divided once again over its wartime history. A bitter row has erupted in the west of the country over the Soviet Red banner - an exact replica of the one which flew above the Reichstag in May 1945 as the Nazi regime collapsed. When the Ukrainian parliament passed a law to allow the Soviet Red banner fly on Victory Day this year along with the country’s national flag, it sparked uproar among some who view the Soviet era as a time of oppression.
“Those who initiated this law are against our country. They must hand over their passports and leave to the places where the Soviet red banner is a symbol of good,” claimed Arseny Yatsenuk, a deputy in Ukraine’s parliament, the Rada.
The bill was eventually passed, and on Monday, when the former Soviet Union marks the Nazi defeat, most Ukrainian cities will be adorned with both the state and Red victory flags.
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A coworker of mine told me that there’s a Red Army military graveyard near her old home in Ukraine with a statue that she says is called a memorial to ‘The Unknown Rapist’.
heh. I think I heard that joke using post-war East Germany as the setting for the statue.
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