Are there really Nazi's in Ukraine?
Are there really Nazi's in Ukraine?
Most famous Nazi sympathizer, UKR hero Stepan Bandera, still haunts history. More...
Hogan’s Comment:
Hard to find an unbiased opinion especially with propaganda and censorship operating on all sides.
This paper appears to be objective.
For sure Ukraine has a tortured history to define itself as a nation that few take the time to understand.
The communists under Stalin killed millions of Ukrainians in the 30's in a man-made famine. Some Ukrainians looked at the Nazi invasion in WWII as a liberation. Ukraine's Nationalist Hero Stepan Bandera is still celebrated today.
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Ukraine has long struggled to define itself as an independent nation with a unique national identity, in part because it was historically used as a battleground for the conflicts of far greater imperial powers, as well as because the territories themselves were ethnically diverse.
What we know as Ukraine today was for most of its history a collection of multi-ethnic territories divided amongst several empires
At the center of Ukraine’s most recent struggles to form a national identity is a man that is remembered as a heroic freedom fighter to some and a genocidal monster to others: Stepan Bandera (1909-1959). An ultra-nationalist Ukrainian partisan, he fought before, during, and even after the Second World War for the creation of an independent Ukrainian nation-state, and was willing to use violent, terroristic methods to accomplish his goal. Whatever their sympathies, most historians agree that he took advantage of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union to begin partisan warfare against the Red Army, while allying himself with the Germans, who many of Bandera’s followers saw as liberators. His forces would go on to commit numerous atrocities
against native Polish and Jewish populations in the name of creating an ethno-nationalist Ukrainian state.
Ethnic animosities continue to tear UKR apart.
And now threaten to tear the world apart.
Where are the peace makers?
Major Kong on large scale US/NATO nuclear exercise today.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024&context=oflifeandhistory
Bandera: (Re)Building Ukrainian National History - College of the Holy Cross
3 . Ukrainians), this twofold use of Bandera’s image allowed them to cast all Ukrainian nationalist as Nazis or Nazi sympathizers, drawing a direct line back to the partisans fighting in Ukraine
Congress bans arms to Ukraine militia linked to neo-Nazis
Congress bans arms to Ukraine militia linked to neo-Nazis
A little-noticed provision in the 2,232-page government spending bill passed last week bans U.S. arms from going to a controversial ultranationalist militia in Ukraine that has openly accepted neo-…
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦Ivano-Frankivsk region yesterday celebrated with a mass procession - "The Day of the OUN-UPA Creation", glorifying the Nazi accomplices Bandera and Shukhevych, who were involved in the genocide of Poles, Jews and Russians.