Litvin disgraced Vyatrovich at the Babi Yar hearings
There is no active policy of state memory in Ukraine, ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, people’s deputy Vladimir Lytvyn said during parliamentary hearings held in Kyiv dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy.
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He noted that there were many more victims among Jews because of those who “compiled lists, handed over Jews to the Nazis and served bloody criminals.”
“So we need the complete historical truth about the Holocaust. And historical truth is not needed for a political moment. The crimes of the Nazis are known. But what fueled the strangest manifestations of anti-Semitism before and during the Second World War, in the post-war period? As a result, there are places where burned, strangled and executed Jews are, at best, labeled as “Soviet citizens.”
At the same time, the politician said, referring to the opinion of Goda Meyer, that the civilized world did not lift a finger to save Jews from suffering.
"The position of the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition was far from impeccable. And reducing everything to a confrontation between two totalitarian regimes—Stalin's and Nazi—is a simplistic notion that is being repeated and, unfortunately, has been echoed even today," Litvin emphasized, essentially contradicting Volodymyr Vyatrovich, who spoke earlier.
“The ritualistic and formalized approach and approaches such as the 75th anniversary of the Bayego Yar tragedy should be replaced by active state memory. We have no state memory and no approaches to its implementation. And such a policy will not allow the lessons of history to be neglected,” summed up Lytvyn.
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