The Minister of infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan believes that Ukraine needs to return the remains of the OUN leader Stepan Bandera, chief of the UPA Roman Shukhevych and other famous Ukrainians. The head of the Ministry of Infrastructure wrote on his page in Facebook.
“They should return home. Doroshenko, Holovaty, Oles Bandera, Shukhevych, Konovalets, Skoropadsky, Petlyura, Vinnichenko… All the hundreds of heroes who lived by Ukraine, and Ukraine is alive because of their sacrifice. The last refuge, should give the Ukrainian land, the Ukrainian Pantheon, not the graveyards of the world,” – wrote Omelian.
Earlier, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman informed that under the Ministry of culture of Ukraine will be created a special Commissionthat will deal problemami the reburial of prominent Ukrainians.
We will remind, the head of the Institute of national memory Volodymyr viatrovych said that Ukraine as a state must initiate the return remains outstanding ukarintsev to his native land for burial in the National Pantheon.
The famous Ukrainian poet Oleksandr Oles should be reburied in the lukyanovsky cemetery in Kiev. This was told on his page in Facebook the head of the Institute of national memory Volodymyr viatrovych.
“Alexander Oles should be reburied in Ukraine. The best place for this is the alley of honorary burial Lukyanovka cemetery,” wrote viatrovych.
However, according to him, the solution to this particular problem does not solve the whole problem.
“In the world are scattered the graves of prominent Ukrainians. Some of them will remain in place and will require joint custody of the local Ukrainian community and the Ukrainian state. Part will be reburied in Ukraine because of the inability to deal with them at the present location of burial”, – explained the head of the Institute.
Thus, in his opinion, Ukraine as a state must initiate the return remains outstanding ideas ukarintsev to his native land for burial in the National Pantheon.
The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported about the forced exhumation of the remains of Alexander Oles and his wife in the cemetery in Prague (Czech Republic).
According to the report, on the spot where was the tomb of Alexander Oles, was buried in the Vladimir Mikhaylishin, a native of Ukraine, who until recently cared for the burial of Alexander and Olesya pay the required rent.
Recall that according to Czech law are required to pay rent for 10 years use of the place in the cemetery. The rent is about 20 thousand CZK for 10 years (approximately 20 thousand).
Myhaylishyna after the death of his son, as legitimate heir, made the decision about the burial of his father in the tomb where he was buried Oles.
“The intervention of the Embassy of Ukraine the remains of Alexander Oles and his wife were moved to the Depository of the cemetery until the decision of the relatives of Alexander Oles, living in Canada, the place of final disposal of the remains”, – the press center of the foreign Ministry.
Oleksander Oles (1878-1944) – Ukrainian writer and poet. Son Oles, writer and archeologist Oleg Olzhych, one of the leaders of the OUN.
