Ukrainian MP calls fallen Soviet soldiers ‘scumbags’

Ana Maria Rus

Natalia Pipa has commended the removal of a Russian-language inscription from a WWII memorial in Kiev A Ukrainian lawmaker has sparked backlash after calling Soviet soldiers who died fighting Nazism during World War II “scumbags.” On Friday, Natalia Pipa praised the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II for removing a Russian-language inscription from a monument to fallen soldiers that read: “Their heroic deeds will live forever.” The member of Ukraine’s parliament shared a