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Ukraine Holocaust memorial desecration 'not an isolated case'
« on: September 25, 2019, 02:52:51 am »
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Ukraine Holocaust memorial desecration 'not an isolated case'
A Holocaust memorial in southern Ukraine has been defiled with Nazi symbolism. It's the third such incident in a matter of weeks. This time, the anti-Semitic vitriol was directed at President Volodymyr Zelenskiy himself.


The Bogdanovka Holocaust memorial was erected in 1991

Shock and embarrassment — the people of Bogdanovka, a village in southern Ukraine, are still coming to grips with the fact that someone defiled their Holocaust memorial with swastikas a week ago. The villagers condemned the defacement on Sunday at a ceremony commemorating Holocaust victims and those who saved Jews from death, one participant wrote on Facebook.

"The villagers are shocked and say that none of them could have done this because they have great respect for this place," Anatoly Podolsky, head of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in Kyiv, told DW.

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....Then last week, swastikas were sprayed on the monument and a note was left that contained threats to prominent Ukrainian Jews, including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Read more at: https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-holocaust-memorial-desecration-not-an-isolated-case/a-50567706

You know, he won that election with 69% voting for him if I recall correctly which is a pretty magnificent win even though, I think a lot of the votes were votes against corruption.



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