After his death, Slava Stetsko took over the ABN and leadership of WACL until after 1991 which signified Ukraine's independence. WACL leadership fell to Chiang Kai-shek nationalist groups and after a generous renaming to World League for Freedom and Democracy(WLFD), they write human rights reports for the United Nations.
In the 1950s "the Ukrainians" organized a million man march on Washington. They were able to force then President Eisenhower to not recognize China and that remained the US policy until Richard Nixon changed it in the early 1970s..
Not bad work when you consider most of "the Ukrainian" Diaspora activists weren't citizens, couldn't vote yet, and the leaders were stateless Nazi leftovers like Yaroslav Stetsko who should have been tried for his people's (OUNb, UPA, Waffen SS)conduct at all the death camps in Europe.
In the 1950's they lobbied the US government into the Korean War to support Korean nationalist aspirations. In the 1960s, "the Ukrainians" were the reason the US jumped into the Vietnam War for the S. Vietnamese nationalist groups.
Going into the 1980s, the extreme nationalist governments in South and Central America joined the ABN. They became "the Ukraine" in the larger sense because they directly followed Stepan Bandera's 2nd in command, Yaroslav Stetsko's directives and started anti-communist revolutions as members of the ABN. Mass murder and torture followed them. This was what "the Ukrainians" brought to the table.
Throughout the Cold War, the various groups under the heading of "the Ukrainians" were tolerated by Intel Agencies because they had assets in communist countries that were supposedly working with the West.
The reality is that across the spectrum of the FOIA document releases about "the Ukrainians" under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, the consensus of the CIA, FBI, and US State Dept. is "the Ukrainians" were liars throughout the Cold War, could not be trusted, and only provided real Intel if it helped provoke a war with the Soviet Union, China or a proxy state.
During the post-war period from 1946 to the end of the Cold War, "the Ukrainians" were directly responsible for setting up and carrying out the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people worldwide. The innocents only crime was not agreeing with" the Ukraine" (ABN) member's nationalist/fascist state building political program.
Historically, the highpoint in ABN (OUN) Ukrainian history came just before Iran-Contra happened. "The Ukrainians," thought they succeeded in buying the American Presidency. The Nazi Ukrainian leaders Slava and Yaroslav Stetsko brokered a deal financing Reagan's presidential aspirations.
The Cold War ended. The Soviet Union split up. The value of generations of "Ukrainian" political Nazis dropped through the floor.
The speech then-President George H. W. Bush gave in Kiev August 1st, 1991 made that clear and can be put into context against this backdrop. Dubbed the "Chicken Kiev" speech, these small sections of the speech make it almost seem likely he was looking at Stetsko when he spoke it.
Because of his position in the CIA and the Reagan Administration, George HW Bush knew both Stetskos and all the Ukrainian nationalist leaders for over 30 years.
This speech outlining American policy is probably the only thing that kept a fully Nationalist Ukraine(OUNb fascist/Nazi) from being realized through the Diaspora before 2014.
"In Moscow, I outlined our approach: We will support those in the center and the Republics who pursue freedom, democracy, and economic liberty. We will determine our support not on the basis of personalities but on the basis of principles. We cannot tell you how to reform your society. We will not try to pick winners and losers in political competitions between Republics or between Republics and the center. That is your business; that's not the business of the United States of America"
"But freedom cannot survive if we let despots flourish or permit seemingly minor restrictions to multiply until they form chains until they form shackles. Later today, I'll visit the monument at Babi Yar -- a somber reminder, a solemn reminder, of what happens when people fail to hold back the horrible tide of intolerance and tyranny.
Yet freedom is not the same as independence. Americans will not support those who seek independence in order to replace a far-off tyranny with a local despotism. They will not aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred." - George HW Bush August 1991
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