By the time Germany surrendered in May 1945, around 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union had died, the majority of them civilians. Just for comparison: Germany lost less than 6,350,000 million people, 5,180,000 of them soldiers. It was a war which, as fascist Germany declared, was directed against Jewish Bolshevism and the Slavic subhumans.
Today, 81 years after this historic date of the fascist attack on the Soviet Union, Germany's leading circles again supported the same radical right-wing and Russophobic groups in Ukraine with which we cooperated during World War II. This time against Russia.
I would like to show the extent of hypocrisy and lies being practiced by the German media and politicians when propagating an even stronger armament of Ukraine and the completely unrealistic demand that Ukraine must win the war against Russia, or at least that Ukraine should be allowed to do so not lose this war - while more and more sanctions packages are passed against Russia.
The right-wing regime installed in Ukraine in a coup in spring 2014 worked intensively to spread a fascist ideology in Ukraine. The hatred against everything Russian was constantly nurtured and has increased more and more.
Worship of far-right movements and their leaders who collaborated with the German fascists in WWII has increased immensely. For example, for the paramilitary organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which helped the German fascists murder thousands upon thousands of Jews, and for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which murdered tens of thousands of Jews and other minorities. Incidentally, the pogroms were also directed against ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and pro-Soviet civilians.
A total of 1.5 million, a quarter of all Jews murdered in the Holocaust, came from Ukraine. They were pursued, hunted down and brutally murdered by German fascists and their Ukrainian helpers and accomplices.
Since 2014, since the coup, monuments to Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators have been erected at an amazing rate. There are now hundreds of monuments, squares and streets honoring Nazi collaborators. More than in any other country in Europe.
One of the most important people worshiped in Ukraine is Stepan Bandera. Bandera, murdered in Munich in 1959, was a far-right politician and Nazi collaborator who led a faction of the OUN.
In 2016, a Kiev boulevard was named after Bandera. Especially obscene because this road leads to Babi Yar, the gorge on the outskirts of Kyiv where German Nazis, with the support of Ukrainian collaborators, murdered well over 30,000 Jews in two days in one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust.
Numerous cities also have memorials to Roman Shukhevych, another important Nazi collaborator who commanded the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), responsible for the murder of thousands of Jews and Poles. Dozens of streets have been named after him.
Another important person revered by the fascists is Jaroslav Stezko, who in 1941 wrote the so-called Declaration of Independence of Ukraine and welcomed the German Wehrmacht. Stezko assured in letters to Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco that his new state was part of Hitler's New Order in Europe. He also declared: "Moscow and the Jews are the biggest enemies of Ukraine." Shortly before the Nazi invasion, Stetsko (the OUN-B leader) assured Stepan Bandera: "We will organize a Ukrainian militia that will help us, the Remove Jews."
He kept his word - the German occupation of Ukraine was accompanied by terrible pogroms and war crimes, in which the OUN nationalists played a leading role in some cases.
After the war, Stezko lived in Munich until his death, from where he maintained contacts with many remnants of nationalist or fascist organizations such as Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan, Franco-Spain, and Croatia. He became a member of the Presidency of the World Anti-Communist League.
There is also a plaque commemorating Taras Bulba-Borovets, the Nazi-appointed leader of a militia that carried out numerous pogroms and murdered many Jews. And there are a number of other monuments to him. After the war, like many Nazi collaborators, he settled in Canada, where he ran a Ukrainian-language newspaper. There are many supporters of Bandera's Nazi ideology in Canadian politics.
There is also a memorial complex and museum for Andryi Melnyk, co-founder of the OUN, who also worked closely with the Wehrmacht. The German invasion of Ukraine in 1941 was marked with banners and proclamations such as "Honour Hitler! Glory to Melnyk!". After the war he lived in Luxembourg and was a fixture in Ukrainian diaspora organizations.
Now in 2022, his namesake Andryi Melnyk, Ambassador of Ukraine in Germany, is constantly demanding more heavy weapons. Melnyk is a fervent admirer of Bandera, laying flowers at his grave in Munich and even proudly documenting it on Twitter. Many Ukrainians also live in Munich and regularly gather at Bandera's grave.
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