The Foreign Policy: Ukraine honors neo-fascist involved in the Holocaust and the ethnic cleansing, 2015

Original article by Foreign Policy: Ukraine passes law making those involved in the Holocaust and the ethnic cleansing exempt from criticism, 2015

a quote from the article:
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"Ukraine country’s national parliament, the Supreme Rada, has just taken a much more dangerous step. Lawmakers recently passed a controversial law that honors dozens of nationalist organizations -- including far-left socialists, monarchists, and neo-fascists -- as “fighters for Ukrainian statehood.”

While most of the groups on the list are harmless enough, among them are two -- the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) -- that were involved in the Holocaust and the ethnic cleansing of Poles in western Ukraine during and after World War II. The inclusion of these organizations among those that are exempt from criticism is deeply disturbing."
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Also it should be noted that The USA Today, The Salon, The Huffington Post (UK) all say that OUN and UPA are responsible for the Holocaust and the ethnic cleansing.
If this is not enough for you then read these articles:


Libération (France): Quelle est l’importance du régiment Azov, cette unité ukrainienne fondée par des proches de la mouvance néonazie?, 2022
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It should be noted that Bandera was one of the leaders of the Army insurrection Ukrainian (UPA) who collaborated with nazi Germany, and participated in the massacres of Jews during the Second world War.
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Le Figaro: Ukraine's far-right enters parliament, 2012
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"Seen from Western democracies, Svoboda party indeed inspires a certain uneasiness. Until 2004, Svoboda was called the National Socialist Party of Ukraine (dedicated post, wiki article). It has since found a more respectable name, but still claims to belong to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). This has a complex history. It should be noted, however, that its armed wing (UPA) actively collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War and massacred the Jews of Galicia (western Ukraine). Every year, Svoboda commemorates the creation, in 1943, of the Waffen SS division “Galitchina” (Galicia)."
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Associated Press: Poland probes burning of Ukrainian flag at far-right march, 2016
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Poland’s Foreign Ministry says the country is investigating the burning of a Ukrainian flag during a march by far-right nationalists, an incident that comes amid increased tensions between the Slavic neighbors. The nationalists burned the flag while screaming vulgarities about Stepan Bandera, a fascist Ukrainian leader during World War II whose followers slaughtered many Poles.
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BBC News: Torch-lit march in Kiev by Ukraine's right-wing Svoboda party, 2014
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Thousands of supporters of a far-right Ukrainian party Svoboda have held a procession through the centre of the capital Kiev. The protesters were marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of a controversial World War II Ukrainian nationalist leader [Bandera] whom western historians accuse of being the perpetrator of ethnic cleansings in Ukraine.
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P.S. The red and black 🟥⬛ flag which you can see almost on every photo from Ukraine is the flag of Bandera's OUN. Now you know what it stands for. Beware!

Is it that hard to take a picture of a Ukrainian without a nazi symbol of some sort? Or are those Buddhists of the Ukraine resistance?

TVN24 „Wstajesz i wiesz” (Poland). 39th day of Russia's treacherous invasion of Ukraine, 03/04/2022

On 03/04/2022 Polish TV channel TVN24 during a morning broadcast show „Wstajesz i wiesz” (Stand up and see) made an interview with a Polish volunteer from Kharkiv, Ukrain.

The said volunteer introduced the host to her friends: Anastasia and Antonio, who were going to be married that same day.

During the conversation with the couple a plaque or a plate with swastika engraved is clearly visible in the background.

CNN: The elevation of fascists into Ukraine key government positions, 2014

The link to the original CNN article

quote:
"After all, in the eyes of many ethnic Russians, it is the Ukrainian nationalists -- not Putin -- who are the Nazis. The Russians have asserted, quite accurately, that the revolution that overthrew a pro-Russian, democratically elected leader has resulted in the elevation of Russophobe fascists into key government positions. For example, the new secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council is Andriy Parubiy -- co-founder of the Neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU) (a dedicated post or a wiki article)."

The Times of Israel: World Jewish Congress asks Ukraine’s Orthodox Church to halt tributes to Hitler’s army, 2013

some quotes from the article:
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World Jewish Congress asks country’s Orthodox Church to halt tributes to Hitler’s army and its local collaborators

“I was horrified to see photographs . . . of young Ukrainians wearing the dreaded SS uniform with swastikas clearly visible on their helmets as they carried the caskets of members of this Nazi unit, lowered them into their new graves, and fired gun salutes in their honor,” Lauder wrote. “I was especially troubled by the participation in this ceremony of a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that appeared to give a religious legitimacy to the rehabilitation of the SS.”

In late July, Ukrainians wearing SS uniforms were photographed trudging through trenches and firing rifles in a reconstruction of a key battle against the Soviets during World War II. An Orthodox priest led a ceremony for fallen soldiers of the Nazi unit, sprinkling his blessing over several men sporting swastikas who lowered a coffin in a ritual reburial.
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▪️the original letter by World Jewish Congress: WJC urges Ukrainian Orthodox Church leader to act against glorification of Nazi soldiers, 2013
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church should work to stop clergy from participating in neo-Nazi events in Ukraine, the World Jewish Congress said today in a letter to the head of the church. WJC President Ronald S. Lauder asked Patriarch Filaret* in a letter to speak out against events glorifying the Nazis. Lauder referred to a recent ceremony near Lviv marking the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Galician division of the Waffen SS, in which Ukrainians fought on the side of Nazi Germany."
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more articles about the same issue:

▪️The Jewish Telegraphic Agency: WJC: Ukrainian priests must stop glorifying Nazis, 2013

▪️The Forward: Jews Urge Ukraine Clergy To Shun Neo-Nazis, 2013

*a staunch Ukrainian nationalist sympathizer. He was defrocked and in 1997 excommunicated by the the Russian Orthodox Church after which he created his own 'version' of the Church in Ukraine.

2017, Kolya Serga, a host of one of the most popular travel show (Ukrainian made) on the Russian Television -- the Eagle and Tails show*, asked his fan to say 'Sieg Heil' while a selfie.

2022, the said host joined the Ukraine Army to defend his ideals...

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A trannoscript:
Kolya Serga: "Say 'Sieg Heil'".
The Girl: "No, I don't want to"
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The girl saw the show's host in a shopping center in 2017 and decided to take a picture with him. Her mother (a Russian blogger) said:

“The moment we saw it, my heart sank with horror and disgust. Like my little girl got splattered with filthy hands. It was disgusting. Scary. Fury raged in me at the impossibility of saving, protecting. I do not know how she had the wisdom not to repeat this disgusting thing after him. But I am proud of her"

*Eagle and Tails is a Ukrainian travel TV show launched in 2011. It is broadcasted in the Russian lang in Ukraine, Russia (very popular thus the girl's knowledge of the hosts and wanting to take a video with one of them)

Washington Post: Head of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine founded openly neo-fascist party, 2014

the article: Ukraine’s ultra-nationalists present a need for U.S. caution, 2014

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The head of the National Security and Defense Council, in charge of the armed forces, is Andriy Parubiy (the guy in the photos), who founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), an openly neo-fascist precursor to Svoboda party.
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P.S.
Azov nazi battalion uses the same symbol for insignia as the youth branch of SNPU — the Ukraine Patriot (see the flags on the photos). Why? Biletsky, the founder of the Azov, at some time was a leader of the Ukraine Patriot.

P.P.S.
Parubiy held the Chairman of the Parliament post for 3 years. Wiki article about him.

In 1999 Andrei Parubiy* published a collection of articles “A View from the Right”. There his nazi views were clearly stated.
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"History vividly demonstrates the purpose of Ukraine. Once it was the Pra-Ukraine that became the cradle of the Indo-European civilization. It is characteristic that just when the Kyiv state began to lose its leading role in cultural and military life, Europe lost its orientation and began to be filled with adventurous pseudo-ideas proclaiming chaos and disorder. It took centuries for the white race to realize the perniciousness of these ideas, but it is no longer able to break out of their networks. But many people do not lose faith in a knight who will remove the veil from the eyes of European nations, in new ideas that, like a fresh wind, will sweep through the expanses of Europe. And then the white peoples will again unite their forces to fight Chaos, to return Order. This is the historical mission of Ukraine."
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* Chairman of Ukraine Parliament

This 'Ukraine is the cradle of the European white power' parvus opus [44 pages] of Andei Parubiy can be read here (lang:Ukrainian)

more quotes from the opus:
"Our duty today is to resist the aggressiveness of the pernicious ideas of the wild Asian world, the personification of which today is Russia. Thus, Ukraine is able to bring humanity out of spiritual and economic decline. But first we ourselves must get out of the crisis. And when everyone believes in the Idea of the Nation, feels its power, we will be a thousand times stronger.

We will receive a mysterious power that will give us the opportunity to stand up proudly and stand next to the advanced peoples of the world in order to create history at once. Throwing off the rags of foreign ideologies, we must put on knightly armor and take up the sword of Ukrainian nationalism. Ukraine is called upon to lead humanity out of spiritual darkness, lead it to the Golden Age."

Bellingcat: Head of Kyiv police is a veteran of Ukraine far-right movement. 2019

the original article by Bellingcat:"Defend the White Race": American Extremists Being Co-Opted by Ukraine's Far-Right.

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"Newly uncovered statements by a senior law-enforcement official in Ukraine, former Azov fighter and deputy head of Kyiv region police Serhiy Bondarenko, suggest that incorporation of the Azov Regiment into the National Guard of Ukraine didn’t affect the far-right ideology espoused by the former’s members — and instead allowed Azov to obtain sophisticated weaponry and build their own political party.

In 2015, Bondarenko admitted he was a veteran far-right operative, and stated his confidence that “all members of Azov have permanent ideological views that won’t change.” He also listed current deputy-minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Azov veteran Vadym Troyan, as an example of a Ukrainian law enforcement official loyal to Azov."
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The Jacobin Magazine: Ukrainian Jews sought the protection of the Germans from the UPA lead by Bandera (1943-1945)

the link to the article: Who Was Stepan Bandera? 2015

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Whoever Bandera was, all were in agreement that he couldn’t have been as nasty as Putin said he was. But thanks to Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe’s Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist, it now seems clear: those terrible Russians were right.
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By this point, Bandera was already in jail serving a life sentence following a pair of highly publicized murder trials in which he taunted the court by giving the fascist salute and crying out, Slava Ukraïni – “Glory to Ukraine.”
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Citing the Polish historian Grezegorz Motyka, Rossoliński-Liebe says that the UPA killed close to 100,000 Poles between 1943 and 1945 and that Orthodox priests blessed the axes, pitchforks, scythes, sickles, knives, and sticks that the peasants it mobilized used to finish them off.

Simultaneously, UPA attacks on Jews continued at such a ferocious level that Jews actually sought the protection of the Germans. “The Banderite bands and the local nationalists raided every night, decimating the Jews,” a survivor testified in 1948. “Jews sheltered in the camps where Germans were stationed, fearing an attack by Banderites. Some German soldiers were brought to protect the camps and thereby also the Jews.”
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P.S. Zelensky thinks that Bandera being a hero for some Ukrainians is a great thing.
Other western media outlets consider Bandera responsible for ethnic cleansings (USA Today, Le Figaro, The Salon, The Huffington Post, etc.)

University of Pittsburgh: Institutes of memory management and myth making were created in Ukraine, a key function -- to deny ww2 atrocities of the newly forged national heroes

The link to the original research by Per A. Rudling: The OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust: A Study in the Manufacturing of Historical Myths, © 2011 by The Center for Russian and East European Studies, a program of the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburg;

Abstract:

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During the past decade, particularly under the presidency of the third Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko (2005–2010) there have been repeated attempts to turn the leading figures of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) into national heroes.

As these fascist organizations collaborated with the Nazi Germany, carried out ethnic cleansing and mass murder on a massive scale, they are problematic symbols for an aspiring democracy with the stated ambition to join the European Union.

Under Yushchenko, several institutes of memory management and myth making were organized, a key function of which was to deny or downplay OUN-UPA atrocities. Unlike many other former Soviet republics, the Ukrainian government did not need to develop new national myths from scratch, but imported ready concepts developed in the Ukrainian diaspora.
A postal stamp commemorating 100th birthday of the perpetrator of ethnic cleansings in Ukraine during ww2.

Yushchenko’s legitimizing historians presented the OUN and UPA as pluralistic and inclusive organizations, which not only rescued Jews during the Holocaust, but invited them into their ranks to fight shoulder to shoulder against Hitler and Stalin. This mythical narrative relied partly on the OUN’s own post-war forgeries, aimed at cover up the organization’s problematic past. As employees of the Ukrainian security services, working out of the offices of the old KGB, the legitimizing historians ironically dismissed scholarly criticism as Soviet myths.

The present study deals with the myth-making around the OUN, the UPA, and the Holocaust, tracing their diaspora roots and following their migration back and forth across the Atlantic.
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This assessment of Stepan Bandera and OUN-UPA is being accepted by major Western Media sources: The Salon, The USA Today, La Figaro, Libération (France), The Huffington Post, The BBC etc.

University of Ottawa (Canada): Documents show that Bandera masterminded a campaign of ethnic cleansings, 2015

Terrorists or national heroes? Politics and perceptions of the OUN and the UPA in Ukraine
by Ivan Katchanovski,
School of Political Studies & Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada
link to the article on the sci-hub

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Historical studies and archival documents show that the OUN relied on terrorism and collaborated with Nazi Germany in
the beginning and at the end of World War II. The Bandera faction of the OUN-B by means of its control over the UPA
masterminded a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia in 1943 and, to a lesser extent, in Galicia in 1944 and
mounted a terror campaign in Soviet-controlled Western Ukraine at the end of the war and after the war. The OUN-controlled militia and police, which produced the majority of the top UPA commanders and, at least until the beginning of 1944, of the UPA members, were also involved in the Nazi-led mass murder of Jews during World War II, in particular, in Volhynia and Galicia. The UPA and the OUN-B were also involved in mass killings of Ukrainians and Russians.
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Video: Veteran of UPA* (responsible for WW2 ethnic cleansing) buried with full military honor by the Presidential Regiment of Ukraine, 2021

Orest Vaskul, a veteran of Ukrainian Insurgent Army* and a veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, had a burial ceremony with full military honors from the Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment of Ukriane.

A video from the ceremony and an article about the ceremony (ukr lang) with many pictures from the event.

* articles about UPA:
The Nation: The Dark Side of the Ukraine Revolt, 2014
quote:
"...Nazi-collaborator Stepan Bandera, whose UPA massacred Jews and Poles during World War II."

an array of credible western media condemn UPA and Bander

About UPA atrocities:
University of Ottawa (Canada): Documents show that Bandera masterminded a campaign of ethnic cleansings, 2015

University of Pittsburgh: The OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust: A Study in the Manufacturing of Historical Myths

Jacobin Magazine: Who Was Stepan Bandera?, 2015

For those wanting more info from western credible sources (BBC, The Guardian, NBC news etc) about nazis in power in Ukraine, here's the link to my subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineNaziWatch/

Currently my subreddit has many more posts, comments and the whole 780 some subscribers 😂

Well, maybe you like reddit and it will be much more digestible for you to read info there.

The US Department of Homeland Security: AZOV recruiting racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists to join neo-Nazis in Ukraine, 2022

The link to the original document US Department of Homeland Security:
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“Ukrainian nationalist groups including the Azov Movement are actively recruiting racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists (RMVE-WS) to join various neo-Nazi volunteer battalions in the war against Russia,”

The article by The Politico about this US Department of Homeland Security statement:

Politico: Customs and Border Protection bulletin: American fighters headed to Ukraine questioned at U.S. airports, 2022