Tuesday, October 14, in Ukraine will be great marches of the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists - Ukrainian insurgent Army (OUN-UPA). Rally planned in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv and Kremenchug, informs Kiev print edition
This year marches organized several political forces and public organizations.
the organizers of the March in Kyiv have plans to demand from the walls of the Verkhovna Rada to approve a law recognizing heroes of UPA fighters for the independence and freedom of Ukraine with the appropriate privileges, and to give the veterans of UPA the same status as veterans of the red Army.
According to a member of Svoboda in the past year on March UPA in Kiev managed to collect about 30 thousand people this year, people have the opportunity to be smaller, as most of the active participants taking part in combat actions in the East of Ukraine." The right sector and certain public Organizations gather in Kiev evening marches. The main one is called " Go for You ".
according to the publication, on Sunday, October 12, in Odessa held a torchlight procession dedicated to the OUN UPA.
Most recently, in response to the call of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to transfer the celebration of the day of defender of the Fatherland from February 23 to another " more suitable " day, proposed to celebrate this holiday on October 14, the day of the founding of the Ukrainian insurgent Army.
The UPA(Ukrainian insurgent army) was established on 14 October 1942 by the decision of the leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN(b) - the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists Stepan Bandera). She operated mainly in Western Ukraine and fought against the Soviet Army. UPA is known for its collaboration with the Nazis, although at the end of the war, continuing to fight against the USSR, while conducted combat operations against the German forces.
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