Lviv police versed in the circumstances of a terrible act of vandalism that occurred in the Ukrainian village of Pidkamin. Here two unknown persons desecrated the monument to fallen poles during the Second world war. This was announced by the Deputy of the Lviv city Council, Igor Zinkevich in Facebook.
According to him, the attackers poured red paint on the crosses and memorial plaques to fallen poles. And memorial placards they painted insulting slogans “death to the poles!”.
One of the victims, the monument was dedicated to the murdered by the Nazis in 1941 Lviv professors, and the other erected in memory of the victims of the massacre in the village of Pidkamin.
Polish politicians have addressed for explanations to the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Polish leader Andrzej Duda personally asked Poroshenko to change the law, adopted in April 2015. According to this document, the OUN and UPA (banned in Russia) recognized by the groups that fought for the independence of Ukraine, and therefore, they are entitled to the appropriate honors.
In fact, these movements mass extermination of poles during the Second world war and collaborated with Hitler’s Germany. Last summer, the Polish Sejm officially recognized the crimes of the OUN and UPA against the poles in Volhynia in 1943-1944 genocide.
Photo: Igor Zinkevich / Facebook