Lutsenko is reminded he would call Filaret-led split a “bloody scar”

Social media users reminded Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko his words that glorification of UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army ed.) and rebirth of the Kiev Patriarchate laid a bloody scar on many Ukrainian families. It was written by Elena Lukash on her Facebook page.

“Once the politicians began to praise UPA leading to the second phase of rebirth of the Kiev Patriarchate within the Orthodox Church, this problem marked the Ukrainian families with a bloody scar,” claimed the then member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine led by Alexander Moroz in his interview to the “Moscow Komsomolets in Donbass.”

Why I believe that UPA by no means should be revived? Because politicians who raised the UPA colors at the beginning of the 90-s, actually “revived” animosity.

Certainly, we can recognize UPA a combatant party. But on which side is it? Perhaps, they’d better receive their pensions in Berlin?

In our case we began to call SS “Galicia” division as the “first Ukrainian division “Galicia”. It was clearly articulated in Nurnberg that any SS formations are deemed to be criminal and a list of such formations was given with Ukrainian “Galicia” division inter alia.

Any attempt to rehabilitate these people will do harm to Ukraine. This issue is settled once and forever,” said Yuriy Lutsenko.

The interview was published in # 46 edition of “Moscow Komsomlets in Donbass” and dated 13 November 2002. Full text of the interview can be read here.

As the UOJ reported earlier, Lutsenko destroyed a UOC chapel inside the Prosecutor General’s Office

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