With the involvement of Igor Kolimoisky (governor) who brought in hundreds of paid nationalists, and then Defense Secretary Andrey Parubi, who was involved through Pravy Sektor, as well as the video of Yulia Tymoshenko planning violent provocations in Odessa - all of which went ignored, the government in Kiev is responsible for the murder and mutilation of the people killed there.
To cement this, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko made a sensational statement in the course of his visit to Odessa, having in fact justified the mass murder orchestrated by the Nazis in the Trade Unions House in May of this year. According to him, in spite of the fact that "Odessa paid a very high price", it was necessary in order "to see what would have happened if we had not stopped the attempt of the separatists". Poroshenko remarked, that Odessa is often called a "banderist" city these days.
" And there is no better compliment for Odessa in my opinion!- Poroshenko
Poroshenko went much further by declaring October 14 th Day of Defenders. The date change from February 23 rd celebrates the formation date of the UPA and the rise of the Bandera ideology which the post-Maidan government adheres to as national Independence Day. By doing this Mr. Poroshenko is at least finally coming out of the closet, taking the entire Kiev government with him.
"Before the question of OUN-UPA divided the country, so it was not on the agenda. Now is a good time... Now is the time to put this question... I remembered UPA as heroes," he said.
Ukrainian nationalists are forever trying to convince the world of their democratic intent and that their previous generations fought Hitler as early as 1941, the year Hitler rejected their planned statehood. They hope the world will be remain as ignorant about their history as it seems to be about their present.
Throughout the war, the UPA/OUN Ukrainian nationalists served Nazi Germany. Roman Shukhevych for instance stayed in uniform until 1943. Bandera himself resumed collaboration after his release from prison in 1944. After the battle of Stalingrad, the OUN/ UPA began to masquerade as democrats which Bandera abandoned as early as 1946.
To
make the point, On
the initiative of the OUN(b), negotiations with the SS and its
Security Service were
resumed on March 5, 1944 .
Father Ivan Hryn'okh, who had served as army
chaplain in the Nachtigall Batallion and Batallion 201 and
represented the OUN(b) in the negotiations, emphasized that those who
believe that the Bandera group considers the German Reich as their
opponent are mistaken. The political situation in the Great Russian
lands could have played out quite differently if the German Reich in
1941 had recognized the Ukrainian right to establish its own state
administration. Without any doubt, Ukraine would have been satisfied
with a state administration such as a protectorate. But as this hope
was not fulfilled, the Bandera group was forced to continue its
illegal activities, while strictly maintaining the rules not to
attack German interests, aiming all its forces toward the preparation
for a decisive struggle against the Muscovites...
Poroshenko doesn't want Ukraine to know that f rom the end of WW2 until they were defeated in Ukraine, his heroes, Bandera's UPA, murdered close to 28000 people in West Ukraine because they didn't support Nazism.
As late as 2010 the Ukrainian nationalism that took ove in Kiev after Maidan was considered immoral. The argument was to stop it from happening because the outcome was obvious. This was done by John-Paul HIMKA a former nationalist scholar who was forced to examine the past he had taken for granted.
Ukrainians need not adopt the heritage of OUN as the basis of their identity. There are other strands in the legacy our ancestors bequeathed to us. This is also a question of what kind of intellect and morality we want to be characteristic of the nation. Do we want to examine the complexity of the Ukrainian past, or do we want to live the unexamined national life?
Do we want to begin the deconstruction of myths that divide us east and west, or would we prefer to continue to battle over events that occurred nearly seventy years ago? Do we want to work out a historical discourse that serves all Ukrainian citizens, regardless of ethnicity, or do we want to hunker down in our nationalism? Do we value sophistication and tolerance, or are we happy with anti-Semitism and xenophobia?.. Why would anyone want to embrace the heritage of that group? Why
would I, a person of Ukrainian ancestry and someone devoted to Ukrainian studies for forty years, not want to distance myself and my vision of Ukraine and Ukrainians from that of OUN?.- THE ORGANIZATION OF UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS AND THE UKRAINIAN INSURGENT ARMY:UNWELCOME ELEMENTS OF AN IDENTITY PROJECT- John-Paul HIMKA
Instead of this examination, the Ukrainian nationalists who have not changed by being inside democratic societies world wide but are changing those societies instead, are doing what their parents did and hoped to do again in Ukraine. This is why the elections in Donbass are so important.
Recognizing the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics
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