1.
Mother said Josh Powell threatened her
KIEV, Ukraine, May 18 (UPI) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said his country should remove all symbols dating back to the communist era, which he sees as being as bad as fascism.
Yushchenko said the Ukraine people were hostages of two totalitarian regimes, communist and fascist, which he said were identical in their hatred towards human beings and their practice of committing mass killings, the Croatian news agency HINA said Monday.
Yushchenko spoke Sunday at a site in a wooded area outside the Ukrainian capital of Kiev at a ceremony to remember victims of the Soviet regime's massacres of 1937-1941. He said Soviet dictator Stalin's secret police killed and burned tens of thousands of innocent people, the Serbian news agency Beta said.
Yushchenko said that all over Ukraine more than 400 monuments with Soviet symbols were removed last year, which brought strong denunciations from Russia.
In another dispute, Russian authorities have rejected Yushchenko's proposal to declare as genocide the great famine from 1932-33 when several million people died in what was then the Soviet republic of Ukraine, Beta said.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Additional Top News Stories | |
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
A woman who says she had an affair with President John F. Kennedy wrote that she didn't feel at the time she was "invading the Kennedys' marriage."
|
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
Pop icon Madonna says she "wasn't happy" after rapper M.I.A. flipped her middle finger at a camera during their Super Bowl halftime show.
|
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the construction of two new nuclear reactors, the first to be built in the United States since 1978.
|
BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
A British company said it is opening salons across England dedicated to the tattooing the scalps of bald men to make it look like they have short hair.
|
| Stories | Photos | People | Comments |
View Caption
