Holocaust scholar Marta Havryshko posted on X: “Kiev got a street named after Taras ‘Bulba’ Borovets, a Ukrainian nationalist, Nazi collaborator, and Holocaust perpetrator. He ruled Olevsk, Zhytomyr oblast, for a few weeks after the collapse of Soviet power in the summer of 1941. At that time, the ‘Sich’ militia organized a pogrom that left dozens of Jews tortured and killed.” In November 2022, the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera was honored with a street in Vinnitsa changed from “Tolstoy” to “Bandera.”
RT reported that the Deputy Mayor of Kiev Volodymyr Bondarenko announced that “Melnychenko Street was one of the ‘alien ideological symbols’ that ‘deformed our national consciousness’ so it had to be renamed after Borovets.
“‘We are working to restore justice and free the city from names associated with the Russian past,’ Bondarenko said in a statement last week. ‘The capital must remain a space of our history and culture, without mentioning Soviet and imperial narratives. Instead, city objects are named in honor of outstanding figures of Ukraine and Defenders who fought for our independence.’”
Borovets obtained permission from the Nazis to organize a 1,000-man “Polissian Sich” (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) militia, which worked with the Nazis in massacring Jews in the city of Olevsk and in the general Zhytomyr Region. Like other Ukrainian war criminals, after World War II, he found a home in Canada.
