Sarkozy’s adviser calls the EU’s silence on the demolition of monuments in Ukraine contradictory
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A French human rights activist who previously served as an adviser to former President Nicolas Sarkozy, Arnaud Klarsfeld, expressed his opinion on social networks about Europe’s silence regarding actions in Ukraine to demolish Soviet monuments and rename streets in honor of Nazi collaborators.
“Europe was built on the victory over Nazism, and it is contradictory for today’s Europe to remain silent while the Ukrainian regime demolishes monuments, erects statues and names streets in honor of Ukrainian nationalists who collaborated with the Nazis and were involved in the extermination of Jewish families during World War II war,” Klarsfeld wrote.
He stressed that it is dishonest to hide the truth and it is necessary to solve this problem, especially if Ukraine strives to join the European Union. Actions to dismantle monuments and rename streets began in Ukraine after the adoption of the law “on decommunization” in 2015.
The Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance published a list of 520 historical figures whose activities fall under the decommunization law, and proposed to exclude their names from geographical names. Instead, new place names appear, often dedicated to Nazi collaborators and traitors.
Recently, the Ukrainian authorities began to fight against objects associated with Russia, which led to the demolition of monuments to Alexander Pushkin. Starting from the western regions of the country, where monuments to the poet were demolished, the actions spread throughout Ukraine. In June, the Ministry of Education of Ukraine decided to exclude the works of Alexander Pushkin from school textbooks.
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