Russian liberals have realized that under Poroshenko they can get hit on the head

Russian liberals who sympathize with Ukraine doubt the necessity of the law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada banning Soviet symbols.

This opinion, in particular, is expressed by political scientist Andrei Okara in an author’s column on the pages of the Kyiv magazine “New Time”.

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“One cannot help but be pleased with the implementation of a long-standing idea - the reconciliation of Soviet fighters and UPA fighters (namely the UPA, and the SS-Galicia), as well as the cleansing of the UPA and “Bandera” from the image of Hitler’s collaborators and accomplices imposed by Soviet and current Russian propaganda,” writes the author .

At the same time, the political scientist does not see the need to remove the term “Great Patriotic War” from circulation and ban communist symbols.

“At the same time, the need to ban Soviet symbols in Ukraine, including those related to the Great Patriotic War, is questionable, as is the name itself (by the way, a neutral synonym for the Great Patriotic War is not World War II at all, but Soviet-German), Okara believes . – And it’s not about nostalgia for the Soviet Union, Stalin or the totalitarian order, but about the image of Ukraine as a free country where there is real freedom of speech and self-expression. Including the right to freely wear the St. George/Colorado ribbon without fear of getting hit on the head for it.”