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“ Ukraine's parliament has officially designated the birthday of a prominent Nazi collaborator as a national holiday, while also banning a book that criticized another anti-Semitic national leader. January 1 has now been set aside in the country to remember Stepan Bandera, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported Thursday. Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist who joined forces with the German Nazis during World War II because he believed that they would help his country gain independence from the now defunct Soviet Union. However, he was later also targeted and arrested by the Nazis.
The Ukrainian city of Lviv, which was the nationalist's home city, also announced this month that next year would be "Stepan Bandera Year," a move criticized by Israel. Earlier in December, Ukraine's State Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting banned Swedish historian Anders Rydell's Book of Thieves. The book critically analyzed the actions of Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petliura, whose forces killed large numbers of Jews in the early 20th century. Petilura was later killed by a Russian-born Jew in Paris in 1929.
On December 17, Ukraine voted against a United Nations General Assembly resolution that aimed to combat the "glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," according to Tass news agency. The United States also voted against the measure, although 129 nations supported the move.“
Ukraine Makes Birthday of Nazi Collaborator a Holiday
Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist who joined forces with the German Nazis during World War II because he believed that they would help his country gain independence from the now defunct Soviet Union.www.newsweek.com
And, more recently.....
“ Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight march in the capital of Kyiv to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera, the leader of a rebel militia that fought alongside Nazi soldiers in World War II.
The Sunday march came amid persistently high concerns over Russia’s massing of troops near the Ukrainian border, which many believe could be a prelude to an invasion. A large sector of eastern Ukraine has been under the control of Russia-backed separatist rebels since 2014.
“Today, when there is a war with the occupier at the front, and the struggle against the ‘fifth column’ continues in the rear, we remember and honor the memory of Stepan Bandera,” said Andriy Tarasenko, leader of the nationalist party Right Sector.
“ Expressions of admiration for Bandera and other collaborators have increased in scope and status following the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, which toppled the regime of Viktor Yanukovych amid claims that he is a Russian stooge, and triggered an armed conflict with Russia.”
“ The veneration of Nazi collaborators, including killers of Jews, is a growing phenomenon in Eastern Europe, where many consider such individuals as heroes because they resisted Soviet Communism.”
Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists march in honor of Nazi collaborator
Stepan Bandera led Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought alongside Nazi Germany during WWII, killing thousands of Jews and Poleswww.timesofisrael.com
Given Putin’s rhetoric, celebrating Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera and other OUN leaders— who were responsible for the murders of tens of thousands of Poles in Galicia, as well as complicity in carrying out the Holocaust itself— is, quite literally, playing into Russia’s hands. As is allowing Neo Nazi paramilitaries full state backing, for that matter.
This article provides an interesting explanation as to why celebrating collaborators has become so widespread.
Why Are So Many Eastern Europeans Suddenly Celebrating Nazi Collaborators? | Essay | Zócalo Public Square
When is a hero not really a hero? When a country resurrects a tainted figure to serve the needs of a new national mythology. Consider the case of Latvianwww.zocalopublicsquare.org
Between Lenin and Stalin, I have heard estimates of Ukrainians who died at the hands of Russian Bolsheviks to range from over 3 million to over 16 million. And the 16 million number is probably closer to the truth. Because dead men tell no tales. To the Ukrainians, the Nazis weren't invaders. They were saviours! Anybody who doesn't support the Nazis supports Putin! Also, the holocaust is a hoax. Deal with it.
We got a live one here.Also, the holocaust is a hoax. Deal with it.
Considering that the Germans were actively planning to starve millions upon millions of Ukrainians to death
“ The perceived grain surpluses of Ukraine figured particularly prominently in the vision of a "self-sufficient" Germany. Hitler himself had stated in August 1939 that Germany needed "the Ukraine, in order that no one is able to starve us again as in the last war".[5]: 56 Ukraine did not produce enough grain for export to solve Germany's problems.[6] Scooping off the agricultural surplus in Ukraine for the purpose of feeding the Reich called for:
annihilation of what the German régime perceived as a superfluous population (Jews, and the population of Ukrainian large cities such as Kiev, which received no supplies at all);[7]
extreme reduction of rations for Ukrainians in the remaining cities; and
reduction in foodstuffs consumed by the farming population.[1]”
The idea that they were somehow “saviors” is laughable.
Go crawl back to Stormfront.
We got a live one here.
It has been said that the bigger the lie, the more likely people are to believe it. Would you like the truth? (If it were allowed to be spoken)
I wonder what other lies you can parrot. History is written by the victors. It is sustained by suckers. Maybe you would care to laugh this off. It wasn't the Nazis that were responsible for it.
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So "new" dude is basically a neo-Nazi?
Do you have nothing better to do than to parrot history written by the victors? Give this site a try.Not sure where you are getting SIXTEEN million from
Since the most detailed estimates place the death toll at roughly between four million and seven million(and that’s the higher end estimate).
Your whining is especially funny because weather Allies captured literally tens of thousands of documents detailing the Germans’ plans and efforts to exterminate the “undesirables”. The Nazis’ own admissions damned them.
Holocaust deniers are all the same, and aren't worth listening to.Yeah, sucker. Let me introduce you to another.
Yeah, sucker. Let me introduce you to another.
Do you have nothing better to do than to parrot history written by the victors? Give this site a try.
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“ Ukraine's parliament has officially designated the birthday of a prominent Nazi collaborator as a national holiday, while also banning a book that criticized another anti-Semitic national leader. January 1 has now been set aside in the country to remember Stepan Bandera, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported Thursday. Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist who joined forces with the German Nazis during World War II because he believed that they would help his country gain independence from the now defunct Soviet Union. However, he was later also targeted and arrested by the Nazis.
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