Zelensky, for the occasion of Ukraine’s “Constitution Day,” yesterday introduced his “National Pantheon” draft legislation. Last month, he had brought back to Kiev the remains of Adolf Hitler’s chief Ukrainian collaborator, Andriy Melnyk, to be re-buried in Ukraine, as the launching of a National Pantheon project. Yesterday, he moved to formalize his project, declaring:
“Today I submitted the law on the Ukrainian National Pantheon to parliament. The names of all the heroes who have fought for Ukraine and inspired Ukraine in different centuries and eras will be united and forever inscribed in our history with a capital letter, with great respect and attention from the state: Ukraine, which respects itself, values its people, and defends what is its own—its right to be Ukrainian. Where no one will ever dictate how we live, how we speak, who we love, who we should be grateful to, or which heroes we should honor.”
So far, Poland and Israel have made half-hearted protests to the revival of Melnyk, which apparently was heard in Kiev as being dictated to.
