Ukrainian speaker Andriy Parubiy slammed for praising Hitler as history's ‘greatest democrat’
Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy, who founded the fascist Social-National Party of Ukraine, now Svoboda, and is a vocal fan of nazi collaborator and Holocaust war criminal Stepan Bandera Photo: Vadim Chuprina/Creative Commons
UKRAINIAN progressives called today for the immediate dismissal of parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy after he said on TV that Hitler had been history’s “greatest democrat.”
The demand came from Communist Party of Ukraine leader Petro Symonenko as well as the MP Vadim Rabinovich, leader of the For Life party, who added that he would file a lawsuit against Mr Parubiy for spreading “nazi propaganda.”
The speaker told chat show Freedom of Speech on the ICTV channel that he had “scientifically studied” democracy and cautioned his audience “not to forget the contributions of the fuhrer to the development of democracy.
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