In the video below depicting Ukrainian fascists marching, the leader of the Svoboda party, Oleh Tyahnybok, can be seen at minute (9:17) chanting alongside fellow Ukrainian fascists ‘Hail to Bandera’. Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian fascist leader whose group, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), carried out massive massacres of Jews and Poles during World War II and advocated a fascist ideology, even while Bandera was in German prison.
US Senator John McCain met with Tyahnybok during his visit to Ukraine in December 2013. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs of the US State Department, Victoria Nuland also met with Tyahnybok on several occasions.
In the massacre conducted by German forces and Ukrainian collaborators in Babi Yar, Ukraine in 1941, 33,771 Jews were exterminated. History should not be forgotten, nor denied. In light of this rather obvious statement, all people with conscience should oppose any form of Holocaust denial and the revival of Nazism in Europe.
The OUN formed an alliance with the Nazis and had several military units that captured Lviv, Ukraine, in June 30, 1941. In Lviv, OUN forces searched for Jewish residents and massacred them. The OUN supported the formation of the Ukrainian 14th Waffen SS Division that was under the general command of the Nazi forces that engaged in massacres and ethnic cleansing of Poles, Russians and Jews. Russ Bellant explained in an interview with Paul H. Rosenberg, that “the OUN, even in its postwar publications, has called for ethno-genetically pure Ukrainian territory, which of course is simply calling for purging Jews, Poles and Russians from what they consider Ukrainian territory.” It is rather shameful that the BBC chose to engage in white washing the crimes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army by saying “some accuse them of murdering Jews and Poles”.
The historians Tarik Cyril Amar, Omer Bartov, and Per Anders Rudling argued that the immense violence carried out by the OUN cannot be justified as an attempt to resist a Soviet occupation. They write:
“Ideologically, and explicitly, the OUN sought an ethnically homogenous “führerstaat,” a greater Ukraine under its own totalitarian control. Its leadership endorsed a biologized ethnic nationalism and not only sought but carried out mass murder of those deemed alien to the national organism.”
According to Bellant, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) is a major group behind the Svoboda party. The fascist Svoboda party currently occupies several government positions in the unelected US-supported Kiev government established following the Maidan coup. Andriy Parubiy, founder of the neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine, later renamed Svoboda, is the National Security Chief. He is in charge of military operations against Ukrainians who oppose the Kiev junta and want their rights to be protected in a federal Ukraine. His deputy is Right Sector leader Dymtro Yarosh, who said he seeks to follow the path laid out by Stepan Bandera.
In a hearing at the US House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 8, Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican congressman from California, confronted Victoria Nuland about neo-Nazi involvement in the Maidan coup. Rohrabacher said “We did have a legitimate election before, and the legitimate president was removed after we had major street violence. There were pictures of people running around, that we were told were neo-Nazis”. Nuland responded by saying “if you had a chance to see the pictures, many of us visited, including many members here, there were mothers and grandmothers and veterans.” Rohrabacher asked: “the question is were there neo-Nazi groups involved in that?”. To which Nuland responded: “there were, as I said, almost every color of Ukraine was represented including some ugly colors.” To which Rohrabacher responded: “the answer is yes, then.”
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