Gov’t approved a package of bills on decommunisation, commemoration of fighters for Ukraine’s independence and victory over Nazism
The Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, is expected to sign a package of laws on “decommunisation”, recently passed by parliament, which will lay down an official version of Ukrainian 20th century history. The laws ban Nazi and Communist symbols and the “public denial of the criminal nature of the Communist totalitarian regime 1917–1991”; they open former KGB archives; replace the Soviet term “great patriotic war” with the European second world war, and provide public recognition to anyone who fought for Ukrainian independence in the 20th century.