I am tired of people telling me that there is only a "small portion" of Ukraine that is Nazi. That is not true in the practical sense. They may be small, but they are powerful.
The Right Sector thugs who powered the Maidan Coup were funded and supported by the US. The CIA has a long and storied history of funding and promoting Nazis, ultranationalists and other fascists, and ijn Ukraine it was no different. It started with the Orange Revolution and progressed right through the Maidan Coup. The "interim" government that followed was installed by the US and contained OUN ideologues. They were put into all manner of important positions. This was even reported in Bellingcat, which is a MI^ service:
The War Crimes of the UPA
Bandera was also head of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the military wing of the OUN-B, which carried out all manner of atrocities against Poles, Jews and Russians while working with the Nazis.
Veterans of UPA marching in Lviv. [Source: tvoemisto]
What the Banderites did
As an Austrian, Hitler was well aware of the ethnic affinities of the Western Ukrainians:
“Russian Ukraine cannot be compared to Austrian Galicia… The Austrian-Galician Ruthenians are closely intertwined with the Austrian state. Therefore, in Galicia it is possible to allow the SS to form one division from the local population.” — Adolf Hitler, 1942.
Hitler knew his history. In fact, Stepan Bandera’s home town of Lviv was actually named “Lemberg” at the time of his birth. It was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the capital city of “Austrian Galicia” until after WWI.
Under the militant leadership of Bandera in World War II, the UPA organized the Ukrainian Waffen SS “Galician” Division, as well as the “Nachtigall” and “Roland” battalions that collaborated with the Nazis and were responsible for the genocide of over 500,000 people.
Polish civilian victims of March 26, 1943 massacre committed by Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the village of Lipniki , Poland. [Wikimedia/Public Domain]
Following the war, however, Ukrainian Nazis were able to escape trial at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity. Moreover, neither the Banderites, the Ukrainian Waffen SS, nor any other Ukrainian collaborators have ever apologised for their participation in genocide.
Indeed, Ukrainians to this day hold ceremonies and parades honouring those who fought for Hitler’s Waffen SS in WWII.
Marchers hold up the symbol of the 14th Waffen SS Grenadier Division “Galician” in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 28, 2021. [Source: The Times of Israel | Photo: AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky]
Ukrainian Nazi SS Galician Division veterans near the village of Yaseniv in western Ukraine in 2013. [Source: Times of Israel | Photo: AP/Efrem Lukatsky}
