Poll: 32% of Ukrainians consider Bandera's activities positive for Ukraine, the same number negative]. Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian) . Retrieved 7 May 2021.

did the Soviets had the same imperialistic, colonizing and genocidal goals in mind, as the Nazis had?

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How about apologizing for promoting obvious falsification of present Ukranian government (that makes every possible move to instill hatred between Ukranians and Russians) on behalf of Bandera, clearing the latter and his bandits of the genocide against Jews and terrorist acts against other civilians - Ukranians and Russians - just because they supported Soviet regime, regardless how bad it was? Bandera associated himself with a variety of Ukrainian organizations during his time in high school, particularly Plast, Sokil, and Organization of the Upper Grades of the Ukrainian High Schools (OVKUH). [22] In 1927 Bandera joined Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO). [22] In February 1929 he joined Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). [23] Bandera was drawn into national activity by Stepan Okhrymovych [ uk], one of the leaders of the Ukrainian youth movement. [20]

Hrycak, Jaroslaw (10 May 2008). "Bandera – romantyczny terrorysta". Gazeta Wyborcza (Interview). Interviewed by Marcin Wojciechowski. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014 . Retrieved 1 April 2014. But the rest of the story, much of which is revealed in CIA records released in 2007, reveals irony in Yushchenko’s award. After the war Bandera lived in Munich. British intelligence used him to help run agents into Ukraine to gather intelligence and to help the Ukrainian underground against the Soviets. The CIA used some of Bandera’s former cronies for similar reasons, but never used Bandera himself, owing to Bandera’s infatuation with his own legend. “Bandera,” said one CIA report from 1948, “is by nature a political intransigent of great personal ambition [who] has…opposed all political organizations in the emigration which favor a representative form of government in the Ukraine, as opposed to a mono-party, OUN/Bandera regime.” Bandera's expectation that the Nazi regime would post-factum recognize an independent fascist Ukraine as an Axis ally proved to be wrong. [65] The Germans barred Bandera from moving to newly conquered Lviv, limiting his residency to occupied Kraków. [67] On 5 July, Bandera was brought to Berlin, where he was placed in honorable captivity. [68] [69] On 12 July, the prime minister of the newly formed Ukrainian National Government, Yaroslav Stetsko, was arrested and taken to Berlin. Although released from custody on 14 July, both were required to stay in Berlin. Bandera was free to move around the city, but could not leave it. [68] The Germans closed OUN-B offices in Berlin and Vienna, [70] and on 15 September 1941 Bandera and leading OUN members were arrested by the Gestapo. [71] Stepan Bandera was born on 1 January 1909 in Staryi Uhryniv, Galicia, Austria-Hungary to Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church priest Andriy Bandera (1882–1941) and Myroslava Głodzińska (1890–1921). Bandera had seven siblings, three sisters and four brothers. [17] Bandera's younger brothers included Oleksandr, who earned a doctorate in political economy at the University of Rome, and Vasyl, who finished a degree in philosophy at the University of Lviv. International, Radio Canada; Himka, John-Paul American-Canadian historian and retired professor of history of the University of Alberta (13 August 2018). "Canadian monument to controversial Ukrainian national hero ignites debate". RCI | English . Retrieved 20 September 2022. Himka says attempts to whitewash UPA's wartime record harm Ukraine's fledgling democracy by encouraging the far right in Ukraine and negatively impact democratic practices within the Ukrainian community in Canada. I think personally that you can't be making heroes out of Holocaust perpetrators and ethnic cleansers, says Himka.deserved) tells me that this blame game is heavily biased in favor of the military and economical might... Sarah Miller, Operations Director for Stonegate Group, said, “Bandero Café truly is a remarkable liquor. Having had the luxury of sampling it ahead of launch in the UK, I am delighted that Be At One bar will be pouring it first. It is filling a market gap and is a fantastic premium tequila. I cannot wait to see what my bartenders and mixologists create with it.” Bandera aimed to make of Ukraine a one-party fascist dictatorship without national minorities. UPA partisans murdered tens of thousands of Poles, most of them women and children; some Jews who had taken shelter with Polish families were also killed. [51] [52] He was also later responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Poles, [53] [54] pogroms against Jews, [14] [55] and implicated in collaboration with Nazi Germany. :15 Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 46/2010: On the assignment of S. Bandera the title of Hero of Ukraine]. President of Ukraine (in Russian). Archived from the original on 25 January 2010 . Retrieved 22 January 2010. Krivitsky, Walter G. " In Stalin's Secret Service: Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect."

According to historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, "Bandera's worldview was shaped by numerous far-right values and concepts including ultranationalism, fascism, racism, and antisemitism; by fascination with violence; by the belief that only war could establish a Ukrainian state; and by hostility to democracy, communism, and socialism. Like other young Ukrainian nationalists, he combined extremism with religion and used religion to sacralize politics and violence." [111] Historian John-Paul Himka writes that Bandera remained true to the fascist ideology to the end. [49] Brown, Kate (30 June 2009). A Biography of No Place. Harvard University Press. p.214. ISBN 978-0-674-02893-7. The OUN had many factions and was rife with ideological disputes, but on the whole it harmonized with the fascist, integral-nationalist, anticommunist, and antisemitic profile of German National Socialists. Right now, however, I don't want to rough your feathers, and so I won't mention Israel among those states, butIn 2021, Bacardi decided to discontinue its Patrón XO Cafe, leaving many of its fans more than a little disappointed. Since then, some companies have tried to fill the void with varying degrees of success. But now, there’s what seems to be the ideal replacement for Bacardi’s much-loved tipple, and it’s Bandero Café. Historian Karel Berkhoff, among others, has shown that Bandera, his deputies, and the Nazis shared a key obsession, namely the notion that the Jews in Ukraine were behind Communism and Stalinist imperialism and must be destroyed. “The Jews of the Soviet Union,” read a Banderist statement, “are the most loyal supporters of the Bolshevik Regime and the vanguard of Muscovite imperialism in the Ukraine.”When the Germans invaded the USSR in June 1941 and captured the East Galician capital of Lvov, Bandera’s lieutenants issued a declaration of independence in his name. They further promised to work closely with Hitler, then helped to launch a pogrom that killed four thousand Lvov Jews in a few days, using weapons ranging from guns to metal poles. “We will lay your heads at Hitler’s feet,” a Banderist pamphlet proclaimed to Ukrainian Jews. Historian David R. Marples described Bandera's views as "not untypical of his generation" but as holding "an extreme political stance that rejected any form of cooperation with the rulers of Ukrainian territories: the Poles and the Soviet authorities". Marples also described Bandera as "neither an orator nor a theoretician", and wrote that he had minimal importance as a thinker. [113] Marples considered Rossolinski-Liebe to place too much importance on Bandera's views, writing that Rossolinski-Liebe struggled to find anything of note written by Bandera, and had assumed he was influenced by OUN publicist Dmytro Dontsov and OUN journals. [114]