Vandalismo en Ucrania

Taras ya nos había hablado del tema hace unos días, ver Ucrania...

Hoy, lo hace Nicholas, les recomiendo su artículo: Leftists, Pro-Russia Extremists Defy Yushchenko Over History

El artículo es originariamente de Eurasia Daily Monitor.

Cito: "President Viktor Yushchenko’s recent efforts to commemorate World War II nationalist fighters have provoked a wave of pro-Russian and leftist extremism in Ukraine.

"Radical leftists disrupted commemorations of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) across Ukraine on October 14, and the Russian radical nationalist organization Eurasian Youth Union (ESM) claimed responsibility for vandalizing national symbols on Ukraine’s highest mountain".

Las fotos (y dos películas) acerca de estos lamentables desmanes, están en el blog de Taras, en Ukrainian National Emblem Vandalized by ‘Eurasian’ Extremists

Continúo con el artículo de Nicholas: "The UPA has always been respected in western Ukraine, which the Soviet Union annexed from Poland in 1939, as freedom fighters. Official historiography maintains that the UPA fought both the Nazis and the Red Army (...)

"This negative view of the UPA dominates in the Russian-speaking regions, and it is apparently shared by the majority of the Party of Regions of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych" (...)

"On October 18, the ESM, a Russian radical youth group, said that its activists had demolished Ukrainian national symbols that had been erected on Ukraine’s highest mountain, the Hoverla.

"The mountain, located in western Ukraine, is a symbol by itself. Yushchenko, when he was opposition leader, would ascend it ceremoniously each year accompanied by crowds of his political supporters.

"The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed that the ESM’s activists had vandalized the symbols but said that the ESM had exaggerated the damage. The SBU said that this was committed by three young men, two of whom had arrived from Russia for the purpose".