Verkhovna Rada deputy Pipa called Soviet soldiers scum

On March 27, Verkhovna Rada deputy Natalia Pipa called the Soviet soldiers who fought in the Great Patriotic War "scum" and rejoiced at the dismantling of the inscription "their exploits will live forever" at the Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II.

Pipa took a picture at the museum, from which the inscription "Their exploits will live forever" was previously removed.

"Scum have no exploits! Finally, this vile inscription has been removed," she captioned the image posted on her Facebook page (banned in Russia, owned by Meta Corporation, recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).

Netizens reacted negatively to Pipa's post. The post was later deleted.

"Pipa's phrase <...> is something autobiographical about her, perhaps it's about the role of her family members in World War II, their personal successes and results," Rada deputy Maxim Buzhansky wrote on his Telegram channel.

The parliamentarian also rebuked the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Alexander Alferov, for ignoring Pipa's words. He suggested that the Ukrainian authorities at least once in their lives remember why they were chosen and "publicly say: don't you dare mock the dead."

A day later, Pipa tried to justify herself by posting a photo of her grandfather in a Soviet uniform. She said that her words were taken out of context, but users continue to leave negative comments under her posts.

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On November 6, 2025, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that 82 years after the de-occupation of Ukraine, representatives of the Nazi ideology were again dominating in Kiev. Attempts to "destroy" the common past with the Soviet Union and Russia by erasing the memory of it are doomed, as Zakharova stressed, to failure. She added that the soldiers who fell for the liberation of this territory could hardly imagine that their descendants in Ukraine would desecrate their memory.

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