UINM: In 1939-1945 Ukrainians fought for other people’s interests

Anton Drobovich chooses “a responsible European model ‘Never Again’.”

Anton Drobovich, Viatrovich's successor as head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, released a video in which he stated that Ukrainians fought for the interests of others in the Second World War. The video is posted on the official Facebook page of the UINM.

Drobovich believes that "Victory Day does not symbolize the triumph of the victors over the defeated but should remind us of the terrible tragedy and serve as a warning that conflicts between nations cannot be resolved by force."

The new UINM head is convinced that Victory cannot be cultivated, which is why he, together with his structure, selects “a responsible European model of ‘Never Again’ remembrance day, rather than ‘we can repeat it’ manipulative campaign.”

Drobovich believes that the Ukrainian nation during the Second World War "was split among several states", and this was its tragedy. According to the UINM head, "Ukrainians were forced to fight for the interests of others, sometimes facing each other." However, Drobovich failed to specify in which states the Ukrainians fought against each other in 1939-1945.

Drobovich’s statements provoked a tough response in society. MP Yevgeny Murayev believes that the UINM is tasked to rewrite Ukrainian history: “The tragedy of the Ukrainian people is people like Viatrovich and Drobovich – grandchildren and minions of the traitors of their people, who seized power. They are trying to rewrite history in order to justify their own shame and present it as a feat. To poison our children with this abomination for the sake of representatives of various diasporas broadcasting their ugly love from overseas caches and generously rewarding homegrown moral freaks from the Institute of National ‘Unconsciousness’.”

Maxim Buzhansky, MP from the “Servant of the People” Party, reacted even more harshly to the words of the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory: “According to the moronic logic of our Institute of National Memory, the Scots who did not have their own country, fought for the interests of others, rather than their own. Moreover, they fought on the side of the Empire, which ceased to exist at the end of the 20th century. Apparently, they don’t read our UINM.”

Recall that earlier Anton Drobovich became known for the rallies urging to demolish the Tithe Monastery in Kyiv.

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