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In trying to eradicate its communist past, Ukraine throws in with neo-Nazis

It's goodbye Lenin, hello Nazi collaborators in Ukraine these days. Laws signed into effect by President Petro Poroshenko require the renaming of dozens of towns and hundreds of streets throughout the country to eliminate Soviet-era names. At the same time, Ukraine will begin to honour groups that helped Hitler exterminate Ukrainian Jews during World War II.�

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In trying to eradicate its communist past, Ukraine throws in with neo-Nazis

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