Turning back to the JTA article for a moment, "Very sad that the U.S. Embassy is posting such stories," Eduard Dolinsky the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee wrote on Facebook in response, adding: "Teliha worked obligingly in the anti-Jewish newspaper 'Free Ukraine' that called for the destruction of Jews and venerated Nazism."
A response to this came on March 18th 2017 when the memorial statue of Teliha was covered in red paint symbolizing the blood she and the OUN nationalists spilt. Current head of the OUN in Ukraine Bogdan Chervak said it was an outrage and a provocation against the OUN and Ukrainian people!
Honestly, I like it when nationalist scum whines like that. Next to murder and torture, whining is what they do best. The only thing that stopped Nazi collaboration in WWII was their great patron and leader Adolf Hitler took a well-deserved dirt nap.
Speaking of Hitler, how did you commemorate his birthday? You must have planted flowers or something-something to mark the day.
Just in time for Hitler's birthday in April 2017, Petr Poroshenko's administration pressed murder charges against 94-year old, WWII veteran Boris Steklyara for killing OUN Nazi operatives. The Bandera's OUN operated in Ukraine through the mid-1950's. During this period after WWII, the OUN/ UPA murdered over 27,000 civilians and close to 10,000 NKVD secret police-soldiers who were rooting them out.
The key to my complaint is Steklyara is charged with killing a UPA Bandera officer. Most countries would celebrate his heroism, not prosecute him for murder. There is no difference in a police officer being charged with the death of an ISIS terrorist while the terrorist was killing people.
Streklyara's trial is set to commence coinciding with Victory Day May 9th celebrations. May 9th is when Victory over the 3rd Reich is celebrated. It is when the Eternal Battalion march is set to commence. The Eternal Battalion march is for people with relatives that fought in WWII. Surviving relatives march carrying their photos of their war heroes to keep their sacrifice in remembrance.
Well, that is, it was Victory Day until Poroshenko declared the Year of the UPA and OUN instead. By making this move coupled with others normalizing mass murderers, Ukrainian nationalists are legitimizing their part in the murder of millions of Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians, Poles, and Jews. Think about it, Victory Day is a one day celebration. UPA year gives Ukrainian nationalists quite a bit of time to celebrate committing the massacres.
This may take the wind out of the sails for anyone that supported the Allied effort in WWII. Couple all this with the new US-Ukraine military training of far right neo-nazi battalions which began on Hitler's birthday commemoration, the law that bans Russian language films that took effect during Hitler's birthday celebration, and we have a definite pattern showing.
Will you find official 3rd Reich Nazis in Kiev? Nope. Why would you expect to? It's a too common mistake looking for German nationalists where Ukrainian nationalists live.
According to Taras Kuzio, even though Ukrainians took aspects of other nationalisms, each countries version was different. The Ukrainians ALWAYS deny they are Nazis "But suggestions that the UNA-UNS propagates "fascism" are rejected by UNA leaders: "Ukraine lacks not Italian fascism or German national socialism... Ukraine lacks Ukrainian nationalism, lacks a new national spirit, a new orientation."
In this same way each country in the Allied effort was different. The Axis countries had their own individual politics, victories, and defeats. The Germans had Germany. Italy had Italians. Ukrainian nationalists of the period had...well they whined a lot about starting a country somewhere if they could kill enough people and take over.
What you do find in Kiev instead of 3rd Reich Nationalists are their allies Ukraine's own mass murderers the OUN and UPA. Because they were rebranded directly after the war as "anti-communists," all of their sins were pinned on Adolf Hitler. It's not like he was in a position to argue the fact.
Here they are in 2016 celebrating the start of Waffen SS Galicia Battalion in Lviv. You may not understand the language, but if you watch you'll see how normalized real political nazis look.
The Ukrainians murdered 250,000 Jews, 3 million prisoners of war, and close to 500 thousand Ukrainians. The Year of the UPA celebrates this achievement with criminal prosecution of the people that stopped them. Should the Simon Wiesenthal Center be afraid?
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