Kyivpost.com, 18 March, 2010
Kyivpost.com, 18 March, 2010
Today at 17:21 | Interfax-Ukraine
The Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists has sent an open letter to Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych with a request not to halt the declassification of the archives of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) linked to the Ukrainian liberation movement, political repression and the Holodomor famine, the press service of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists reported on March 16.
"We are sure that the dismissal of chief of the Branch Archive of the Security Service Volodymyr Viatrovych is the first step towards hiding the crimes of the Soviet Union against the Ukrainian people," reads a statement.
The authors of the address said that "the SBU declassifies not the secret documents of the special services of Ukraine, but the documents of the KGB, which was the punitive and repressive agency of the now non-existing Soviet empire" and noted that "on the basis of the declassified archived documents Kyiv's Court of Appeals declared the leaders of Bolshevik totalitarian regime guilty of the [Holodomor] genocide of 1932-1933."
The congress called on President Yanukovych to be firm in defending national interests, and to continue the policy of declassifying the secret archived documents of the SBU.