Kyiv’s Mayor Quashes City’s Strange Attempt To Rename Street After a Ukrainian Nazi Collaborator
It took top-level intervention to cancel an impending decision that is symptomatic of Ukraine’s uneven record on reconciling with the Holocaust.
Kyiv’s unflappable mayor, Vitali Klitschko, has canceled a vote by his city council that could have seen a prominent street in the Ukrainian capital renamed for a notorious Nazi collaborator and SS official. The last-ditch intervention apparently came after an unscheduled meeting between Mr. Klitschko and Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine, Michael Brodsky.
The abrupt reversal of a decision that risked causing substantial international embarrassment to both Ukraine and President Zelensky, who is Jewish, came as both Ukraine and Russia marked the International Day of Liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, which is commemorated on April 11 in Russia as well as Ukraine. The Third U.S. Army liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on April 11, 1945.
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