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
a quote:
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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

quote:
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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.
Quote:
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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

quote:
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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:
quote:
“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

Video: The Prime Minister of Ukraine with the Minister of Veterans Affairs were honorary guests at a neo-Nazi concert, 2019

▪️ Bellingcat: How to Mainstream Neo-Nazis: A Lesson from Ukraine’s New Government, 2019
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Photographs started circulating across social media showing a man resembling Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk* on stage at the “Veterans Strong” concert event in Kyiv. This was, however, no ordinary concert — it was organized by a far-right figure accused of murder, and headlined by a neo-Nazi band**.
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▪️World Socialist Web Site: Ukrainian prime minister attends neo-Nazi rock concert, 2019
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Ukraine’s prime minister Oleksiy Honcharuk* appeared on stage as an honorary guest at a neo-Nazi rock concert held to commemorate “Defender of Ukraine Day.”
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A Nazi-style swastika flag hangs behind him. Minister of Veterans Affairs and Temporarily Occupied Territories Oksana Koliada likewise appeared at the concert.
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▪️Times of Israel: Ukrainian PM, minister attended neo-Nazi concert in Kyiv, 2019
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk and Veterans Affairs Minister Oksana Koliada have defended their attendance at a concert earlier this month headlined by a neo-Nazi band, railing against the “politicization” of what they say was merely a benefit for veterans of their country’s ongoing war against Russian-backed separatists.
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*Honcharuk
Oleksiy Honcharuk graduated from The Interregional Academy of Personnel Management which according to a report Provided to the United States Congress is one of the most persistent anti-Semitic institutions in Eastern Europe.

You can see Goncharuk photo at the academy website under the section of famous graduates.

**neo-nazi band Sokyra Peruna:
The Sokyra Peruna band is Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi band. Its music is used to promote the notorious fascist Azov Battalion and the Right Sector, both of which played a central role in the US- and EU-backed coup in Kiev in February 2014.

In videos and pictures posted on Instagram and Facebook (pics of this event), audience members can be seen hailing the band with “Heil Hitler” salutes, some wear T-shirts with swastikas and a number of audience members carrying Nazi flags.

P.S. A video of the event where Honcharuk addresses the public.

L'Obs (Le Nouvel Observateur, France): I've seen the other Ukraine, which celebrates the SS and nazi crimes, 2013

quote:
The nationalists and their supporters, led by the far-right party Svoboda, acknowledge the past collaboration with the nazis. They have commemorated this year, the 70th anniversary of the creation of the division SS Halychyna, who had fought in the ranks of the Germans at the battle of Brody (July 1944)

The words of the authorities (mayor, president of the elders of the division...) succeed one another all the more inflamed than the other, closed by Irina Sekh, Member of Ukraine Parliament. A singer "engaged" intones then patriotic songs, followed by still living members of the Armed Insurgency Ukrainian

P.S. the pic:
1) The guy has a 'Breast eagle', a 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf insignia on his chest. It's quite popular in Ukraine (Zelensky post, AZOV battalion promotion billboard).

2) Irina Sekh thrusts her hands into the air praising UPA members responsible for ethnic cleansings

The Fair Observer: The Ukrainian Revolution’s Neo-Fascist Problem, 2014

a quote from the article:
The Donbass, Dnepr and Azov battalions along with regular army artillery units are responsible for many of the attacks on civilians and residential areas in eastern Ukraine under Avakov’s antiterrorist operation. The tactics appear to be that regular army artillery units soften the target, “followed by chaotic, violent assaults” by the battalions. The Ukrainian army and some of the more well-armed neo-fascist battalions’ paramilitary groups have been using heavy weapons, including unguided Grad rockets, in civilian-populated areas for months. Human Rights Watch released a belated report condemning Kiev’s practice.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) chief, Avakov (on the photo), Parubiy (article about his nazism ideas), and other officials defend their use of neo-Nazis in their antiterrorist operation [against Donbass].