No chance for Commies to disrupt memorial events for UPA General Roman Shukhevych in Lviv

June26200816:29

June 29, the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists will mark the birth anniversary of Ukrainian Insurgent Army, UPA, General Roman Shukhevych and the declaration of Ukraine’s independence in 1941 in Lviv, Lviv CUN branch head Mykola Pshevlotsky told ZIK.

The celebrations will be started by a rally at 15.00 June 29 at Rynok square. Another rally, this time an automobile one, will link Shukevych’s birthplace town of Bilohorshcha and Lviv. CUN will also hold a memorial session to be attended by Oleksij Ivchenko, CUN’s boss, who is scheduled to have a press conference at 13.00 in ZIK agency’ s office.

Lviv Communists have no plans to disrupt the festivities, unlike their buddies in Symferopol. Says the first secretary of Lviv Communist party branch Oleksandr Kalyniuk, “Nationalism brought misfortunes for the Ukrainian people. What kind of declaration of independence are they going to mark? The day when German Nazie marched into Lviv together with the Nahtigal Ukrainian battalion and declared independence? We have to know if the Ukrainian people gave them the mandate to declare independence. Communists are against this.”

On learning that Communists will try to foil similar CUN events in Crimea, Mykola Pshevlotsky commented, “Communists are given to aggression, it is in their bones. We are not going to deal with them here. Unlike Crimea, in Lviv the authorities will enforce the observance of our rights.”

Comment by ZIK

CUN has plans to mark in Crimea Roman Shukhevych’s birthday and the 1941 declaration of Ukrainian independence. Meanwhile, Communists say they will disrupt the celebrations. “Only idiots would allow to mark birthdays of these pseudo heroes in Crimea, where the people are opposed to nationalist ideology,” UNIAN quotes Communist and VR lawmaker Leonid Hrach as warning.
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