11:51 18.05.2015

Poroshenko remembers victims of political repression, likens NKVD to Gestapo

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Poroshenko remembers victims of political repression, likens NKVD to Gestapo

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk, government members and Kyiv officials remembered political repression victims at the Bykivnia Graves national history memorial on the outskirts of Kyiv on Sunday.

"I came here today with a feeling that I had fulfilled my duty. Several days ago, I did what I needed to do, what was a reason why I took part in the presidential elections last year - I signed laws on de-communization, on the recognition of heroes of the struggle for national liberation and some other laws which modernized the policy of national memory and freed it from imperial features," the president said in his speech dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of Political Repression Victims.

The Bykivnia Graves is the most illustrative example of communist terror and proof of crimes against humanity, Poroshenko said. "Repressions, deportations and Holodomor. The Soviet totalitarian regime used every possible method to crush the spirit of the freedom loving Ukrainian nation," the president said.

"Enemies of Ukraine are still marching under the portraits of Stalin and Beria. By the way, NKVD is a structure kin to SS/Gestapo. They borrowed criminal practices from each other and perfected techniques of mass extermination of their enemies. A plague is a plague, no matter if it is brown or red," Poroshenko said.

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