VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, PHOTO: OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposes that the Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian Parliament] establish 8 May as the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II (1939-1945) in Ukraine, while 9 May should be marked not as Victory Day but as Europe Day.
Source: Zelenskyy’s speech on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II (1939-1945)
Quote: “On 8 May, Ukraine and the free world remember six terrible years in the history of mankind. From 1939 to 1945… The years that took the lives of millions of people, including eight million Ukrainians. The years of occupation and atrocities, bloody battles and bombings, blockades and mass executions, the Holocaust. All the evil that Nazism brought to the world, brought to our land.
Different nations opposed evil in unity, as allies of the anti-Hitler coalition. The nations of Europe and America… Asia, Australia, Africa – each has its own history of fighting in that war, but the common history of victory.”
Details: Zelenskyy has noted that it is on 8 May that the greatness of the victory over Nazism is remembered by most of the world’s peoples. It was on 8 May 1945 that the act of unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht came into force. And it is on 8 May that the world honours the memory of all those whose lives were taken by that war.
Quote: “It is pure history, without ideological admixtures. And it is the history of our people, our allies, the entire free world. Today, we are returning it to our state.
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Today, I am submitting a bill to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine proposing that 8 May be the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II (1939-1945).”
Details: Zelenskyy said that Ukrainians will never forget their nation’s contribution to the victory over Nazism and will not allow anyone to “erase the role of Ukrainians in this victory, our people, that generation whose memory we cherish in almost every family.”
“We will not allow the joint victory of the nations of the anti-Hitler coalition to be appropriated and we will not allow lies as if the victory could have taken place without the participation of any country or nation,” the president said.
We destroyed evil together! In the same way as we are now opposing a similar evil together….
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