![Ukraine bans Communism & Nazism, celebrates UPA nationalists as ‘freedom fighters’ Ukraine bans Communism & Nazism, celebrates UPA nationalists as ‘freedom fighters’](https://mtic.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/rtx14b5j.si_-310x168.jpg)
Ukrainian MPs have passed a law banning communist and national-socialist totalitarian regimes, and all their symbols. Another bill celebrates 20th-century nationalists accused of links to Nazi Germany, granting them social benefits.
A new law equating communism to Nazism by banning both regimes was passed in the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, on Thursday.