South Vietnam- Ngo Dim Diem-12,000 executions 1955-57, 40,000 jailed
Guatamala Death Squads- Fernando Romeo Lucas Garca, 1980's- 200,000 executed
The Bosnian War- Over 100,000 killed.
Each of these projects were to set up Bandera's friends as ultra-nationalist leaders in their respective countries.
In 1946 Bandera started the ABN and put his second in command Yaroslav Stetsko in charge of it. In 1949, CIA Director, Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter in a letter to the Chairman of the Displaced Persons Committee made official a change in policy towards the OUN. He acknowledged that while the organization had collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War, its members were to be considered solely as anti-Soviets able to "find common ground with new partners." The CIA Director did warn, however, that the Bandera faction was made up of extreme nationalists. This reclassification as anti-Soviet (better known as anti-communist) paved the way for a quiet nationalist invasion of the United States . The ABN (Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations) dominated US foreign policy for the entire cold war. Complementing this and giving it teeth, Stetsko helped form the China Lobby which became the most powerful lobby in modern US history.
The ABN grouped every ultra-nationalist or nazi "nation in exile" in the world together under one umbrella. In the USA it meant Stepan Bandera gained a large power voting bloc directly in the USA from the 1950's until today. If you consider the article linked above, any local, regional, state, or national politician in the US that wants to get elected, needs a swing state, or needs real activist boots on the ground pays homage to the Bandera (formerly) ABN, emigre nationalists.
Bandera's Political Weight in the USWhen the first wave of Ukrainian nationalists arrived in America they set up corporations like credit unions and insurance companies to finance their nationalist agenda for the future. They didn't need to wait very long.
The Bandera are profoundly more than Ukrainian Nationalists. The Ukrainian emigres lead them but at its peak the ABN represented over 100 nations including Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam.
In a letter to CIA Director Allen Dulles in 1958 , Stetsko outlined a plan to rebuild the world into nationalist states submissive to US policy. Stetsko made it clear that he alone represented this constituency.
" Now, when I am here it is my hope that you will agree on our coming together with the purpose to deliberate on concepts and strategy leading eventually to a strong and friendly alliance between the American people and the Russian captive nations I have the honor to represent."
Stetsko closed the letter with- "I am on and off in Washington, testifying before the House of Un-American Activities Committee and the House Committee for Foreign Affairs, and I feel assured that you, sir, will find the time to give me an audience."
Only a few years before this the Ukrainian Nationalists were the focus of HUACC investigations for Un-American activities. The order to change their status because of the start of the Cold War dropped the investigations in their tracks. When the Deputy Director forwarded the letter to Dulles he made a note that it was from Bandera's chief lieutenant.
Bandera's Nazis now determined WHO was a GOOD American and would do so in Congress for another 20 years. How many American lives and careers did they ruin? They became the engine behind Joseph McCarthy.
I n July 1960, the nationalist emigre groups gained their first major victory in the fight to establish nationalism in America. New York City hosted the Stars and Stripes Gala Affair that punctuated the Captive Nations Week celebration. At the parade on the podium were every prominent Jewish leader, 87+ US Senators and US Congressman, New York's mayor, the Governor, and the captive nations leaders which included at least seven former Third Reich SS officers. The nationalist Ukrainians marching in the parade were from Banderas army in WW2. (I wonder how many SS units were represented that day.)
How Much Political Impact do the Bandera Have?After 1960, their impact on American politics grew because they were better organized. The emigre mainstay has always been Congress. The heaviest concentration and headquarters locations are marked by major cities in important political states. The most effective means they employ has been to donate heavily and provide people to political campaigns that promise to vote "for Ukraine/ Poland/ Latvia/ Guatamala/ etc.
In the 1970's the Ukrainian faction bragged about delivering states to presidential candidates. The Polish faction was large enough to swing presidential elections by itself in the 1950's. By the 1980's they delivered their first presidency. Regardless of how you look at the Reagan years, it is now unquestionable how he attained the office in the first place.
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