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ACCUSE LOCAL COUNCIL OF 'BLASPHEMY'
Jews
complain about
Jews
protest SS honor KIEV—Two Ukrainian Jewish groups denounced a decision to offer veterans' privileges to fighters from a local Waffen SS unit. The city council of Ivano-Frankivsk decided last week to grant the benefits to former members of the Waffen SS "Galichina" division. The United Jewish Community of Ukraine and the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress called the council's move a "blasphemous decision" which "not only reverses the verdict of the international tribunal in Nuremberg that denounced the SS as a criminal organization, but insults our memory." The statement also calls upon Ukraine's president and other authorities to cancel the council's decision because it "contradicts the basic tenets of civilized society."
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