Ukrainians Made an Enormous Contribution to Allied Victory in World War II

By Paul Goble |  Windows of Eurasia 

 Staunton, June 4 – Moscow propagandists have criticized the plans of Ukrainian President-elect Petr Poroshenko to attend the 70^th anniversary commemorations of the D-Day landings in Normandy suggesting that Ukraine was not one of the allied countries and that Ukrainians supported the Nazis.

            But those implications are untrue, Yury Shapoval, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, says, and in fact, “Poroshenko is going to France as the representative of a people which made an enormous contribution to the victory over fascism” (ng.ru/politics/2014-06-03/3_kartblansh.html).

                In an article in yesterday’s “Nezavisimaya gazeta,” the historian cites the words of “Saturday Evening Post” writer Edgar Snow in January 1945 that the eastern front during World War II was not so much an example of “Russian glory” but  rather “in justice should be recognized in the first instance as a Ukrainian war.”