Lviv legislature urging European Parliament to annul resolution denouncing Bandera award

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Lviv regional council has adopted an address to the European Parliament requesting it to review clause 20 of its resolution on the situation in Ukraine, which urges the Ukrainian authorities to reconsider the decision on conferring the title Hero of Ukraine on Stepan Bandera, the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the title of Hero of Ukraine.

A total of 105 out of 120 members of Lviv regional council backed this address on Wednesday.

The parliamentarians said they believe that the European Parliament's decision has no legal or historical grounds and is based on the allegation that the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists collaborated with the Nazi regime. "This statement is very cynical, because from July of 1941 until October of 1944 Bandera was a prisoner of Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen, and two of his brothers were tortured to death in Auschwitz," the document says.

The deputies said in the address that they were puzzled by the fact that the European Parliament questioned the decisions of the Nuremberg trial, which named the criminals and collaborators, and defined the very notion of "collaboration."

"Neither Stepan Bandera, nor the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists led by him, or the Ukrainian Insurgent Army fall under the concept of "collaboration" as defined ay at the Nuremberg trials," the document reads.