Bogdan Bezpalko: ‘’Problem of Ukrainian Neo-Nazism lies in history"

The Deputy Director of the Center for Ukrainian and Belarusian Studies at the M.V. Lomonosov MSU, Bogdan Bezpalko, spoke about the roots of Ukrainian Neo-Nazism. On October 28th (the day of the end of the East Carpathian offensive of the Red Army in 1994, which marked the complete defeat of the Nazi troops on the territory of present-day Ukraine), Ukraine celebrates the Day of Liberation. According to historians, during the years of the Great Patriotic War, about three million Soviet soldiers were killed on the territory of Ukraine during the occupation, more than two million people were taken for compulsory labor in Germany, more than 700 towns and 28 thousand villages, more than 16 thousand enterprises were destroyed. The memory of the Great Patriotic War’s Victory Day was sacred in Ukraine until recently, but today the new Ukrainian authorities are rewriting history actively, turning traitors and accomplices of the Nazis into heroes.