Verkhovna Rada legislated the Day of Defender of Ukraine for October 14 - the day of the creation of the UPA
From 2015, the new holiday in the neighboring state will be called the Day of Defender of Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada decided to make October 14 a day off.
On your page in Facebook The representative of the Radical Party Oleg Lyashko, Igor Mosiychuk wrote:
It is long overdue to transfer this holiday. Today, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada showed by their voting the connection of the glorious Cossacks, UPA fighters and modern heroes.
And to whom Mosiychuk himself ranks himself: to the "glorious Cossacks" or "heroes of modernity"?
If one of the main holidays of the country is the day of the appearance of a group that burned, slaughtered and shot innocent citizens (often compatriots), actually swore allegiance to the German fascist invaders, then such a country is sick.
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