Poroshenko demands unconditional compliance with de-communization law

"History has put everything in place. During the last year's parliamentary elections, the CPU (Communist Party of Ukraine) failed to get into Verkhovna Rada, and that was the real assessment by the Ukrainian people. In the last month's local elections, it (the Communist Party) did not participate at all since the de-communization law had already come into effect. And I as president demand both full and unconditional implementation (of the de-communization law) and further publication of the KGB archives," the head of state said during events held in Kyiv on Saturday on the occasion of the Day of Commemoration for the victims of Holodomor, the artificial famine of the 1932-1933 in Ukraine. "We must finally get rid of the complex of a victim nation and be proud that in such a fierce competition we defended our place on the political map of Europe and the world," Poroshenko said. Ukraine must do everything "for its national, political and economic revival, for it to join the European family of free nations," he said After the speech Poroshenko announced a national minute of silence for the famine victims.