2,000 Dismissed

From Unian.info:
"About 2,000 officials dismissed during lustration in Ukraine"

 

About 2,000 people have been dismissed from official posts during the ongoing lustration in Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said during the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday, the BBC’s Russian Service has reported.   According to Yatseniuk, a total of 500 people were forced to resign, while another 15,000 people resigned by themselves. As reported, Ukraine’s lustration law came into force on October 15, 2014. According to its provisions, officials who worked under the regime of the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, as well as employees of the Soviet secret police and people involved in corruption are prohibited from holding high public office.

On April 16, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine will hold hearings as to whether the law on lustration contradicts the Constitution of Ukraine. According to Yatseniuk, officials who are trying to return to power are opposing the law.

^ Lustration is needed in every former Soviet Republic and every former Soviet satellite state. De-Nazification didn't work at the end of World War 2 (especially in West Germany) because the British, French and Americans were more concerned with the new Soviet threat than former Nazis and the West Germans allowed former Nazis to live out in the open, be in government positions and receive pensions. That simply kept the same people in power, but under a different name. Former Communists throughout eastern Europe have mostly been left alone and, like the former Nazis, have simply changed the name of their parties from Communist to something more "democratic sounding." So for many places not much has really changed in the past 24 years. The lustration in the Ukraine is needed to get rid of the people who supported and ran the former dictatorship and to help ensure the Russian-backed fighting in the eastern part of the country doesn't take hold of the rest of the country. The Ukraine also passed a new law to ban all Nazi and Soviet symbols, etc so the lustration law is being supported by the banning of all dictatorship-related items. The Ukraine seems to just want a clean-slate and a return to peace. ^

http://www.unian.info/politics/1067502-about-2000-officials-dismissed-during-lustration-in-ukraine.html