The use of red flags when celebrating the Victory Day does not mean Ukraine's return to Soviet symbols, the chairman of the subcommittee on television and radio broadcasting of the Verkhovna Rada committee on freedom of speech and information, MP (the Regions Party faction) Olena Bondarenko has said.
According to the official Web site of the Regions Party, Bondarenko at a briefing at the National Press Center in Washington (the United States) stressed that the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law on immortalizing the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 to immortalize the memory and feats of the elder generation of Ukrainians who gave their lives for the motherland.
"The Ukrainian parliament adopted the document that means exclusively the use of the flag of a military unit that seized the Reichstag. This flag has the number and name of the military unit. There are no Soviet Union symbols on it. The only similarity is that the flag is red," said Bondarenko.
As reported, on April 21 the Verkhovna Rada resolved the issue of using the copy of a victory flag during the celebration of the Victory Day on May 9. According to the law, a victory flag can be hanged out on flagpoles near the national flag of Ukraine.
