I’m hoping this will be a learning moment about history. Ukraine has a dark and nasty history during the war years; while they choose to cast it as resistance against the monstrous Stalin, the truth is that it was all too often collaboration if not outright allyship with the monstrous Hitler. This monument commemorates the latter aspect, and is thus exactly what the graffiti described it as. A monument to members of the Waffen SS has no place in a liberal democracy, and I hope the publicity surrounding this incident leads to its removal.
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