Further clashes between nationalists and communists

(14 Oct 2006)
1. Wide shot Communist meeting meeting, red flags
2. Mid shot police line and demonstrators, red flags
3. Mid shot placard reads: "Yes to Peace, No to Fascism"
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalia Vitrenko, leader of Progressive Socialist party of Ukraine:
"UIA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) collaborated with the fascists in helping Hitler to establish the "new world order."
5. Cutaway cameraman
6. Close up Communist flag
7. Wide shot demo
8. Wide shot Ukrainian nationalists demo
9. Wide shot nationalists carrying Ukrainian national flag
10. Various of nationalist demo with Ukrainian and nationalist flags
11. Wide shot pan of police as they try to restrain Communists and nationalists
12. Wide shot pro-Communist youths chanting, police in front
13. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Miron Buchatski, Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA) fighter:
"Ukrainian Insurgent Army was not an army of assault, it was an army of defence. The UPA did not attack anybody's land, it defended its own land, and I must say to any occupiers that we will always be so. But we will never give our land to anybody."
14. Various police chasing demonstrators
15. Wide shot pan police arrest troublemaker
16. Wide shot pan police with a detained man
17 .Wide shot meeting
18. Mid shot showing nationalists flag being alight
19. Mid shot pro-Communist protesters tearing up nationalist flag
STORYLINE:
Veteran Ukrainian nationalist fighters who fought both Soviet and Nazi forces in World War II rallied in the Ukrainian capital on Saturday, demanding the same recognition as Red Army veterans.
The nationalists briefly scuffled with opposing socialists, who were holding a counter-rally, but police were largely successful in blocking the two groups of protesters from each other.
Around twenty socialist and nationalist activists were detained after attempting to break through police cordons.
Some 2,000 veteran nationalist fighters and their supporters gathered in front of St. Sophia Cathedral to honour victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, on the 64th anniversary of its founding.
Hostility towards the partisans runs deep in Ukraine, with communist and socialist protestors proclaiming on Saturday that members of the Army collaborated with the fascists in World War Two.
During Soviet times, schoolchildren were taught that members of the Army were enemies of the people, who had committed atrocities alongside Nazi troops.
In the early years of the War, anti-Soviet partisans did align themselves with the Nazis, seeing their invasion as a way to get rid of the Soviet regime.
But after the Nazis rejected their calls for an independent Ukraine, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army started fighting against both the Nazis and the Soviets.
The Red Army drove out the Nazis in 1944, and the partisans continued their struggle until 1951.
After the 1991 Soviet collapse, the former guerrillas sought to win financial and moral recognition similar to that long enjoyed by Red Army veterans.
On Saturday members claimed that their Army was "not an army of assault, it was an army of defence."
Around 4 thousand policemen are on duty to prevent further trouble in Kiev.
Last year, similar demonstrations also ended with clashes.

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