Молния!!

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Для любителей этого дела. Подарок из Канады
Для канадского профессора ОУН - типичные фашисты, участвовали в погромах евреев и резне поляков, и Бандера - совершенно неподходящая кандидатура для награждения в 21-м веке. А УПА частично финансировалась ЦРУ

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Hero+Ukraine+linked+Jewish+killings/2533423/story.html
Yushchenko erred in honouring Bandera
Honorary title may provoke divisions among Ukrainians today

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In 1929, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was formed from a former Ukrainian military organization and led by Col. Evhen Konovalets. Its goal was to revise the results of the Paris and Riga peace treaties, based on 10 “commandments” that included such tenets as “Attain a Ukrainian state or die in battle for it,” and “Aspire to strengthen the Ukrainian state even by means of enslaving foreigners.” It was a typically fascist movement of the interwar period not dissimilar to the Italian version.

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After a Soviet agent assassinated Konovalets in 1938, the OUN eventually split into two wings. In April 1941, Bandera was approved as leader of the revolutionary faction (OUN-B). The other faction was led by Andrii Melnyk (OUN-M).

Both groups collaborated with the Germans. Bandera saw a German invasion as the best hope for an independent Ukraine. The OUN-B also helped train two Ukrainian Wehrmacht battalions to advance eastward with the main German army. In late June 1941, the Nachtigall battalion followed the Germans into L’viv and the OUN-B declared the independence of Ukraine on the local radio.

Members of the OUN-B spearheaded pogroms in L’viv in the summer of 1941 when about 4,000 Jews were killed.

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UPA emerged in Volhynia, where in the spring and summer of 1943 it massacred 30,000 to 60,000 Poles, mainly elderly and children, in a fanatical bid to reclaim Ukrainian lands.

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UPA was supplied in part by the CIA, but survived mainly through support of the local population.


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In the 21st century, his (Bandera's) views seem archaic and dangerous. He embraced violence, terror and intolerance toward other ethnicities living on Ukrainian lands. But he lived through perhaps the bleakest times in Ukrainian history, when independence seemed a remote dream.

Yushchenko surely erred when he conferred on Bandera the title — paradoxically it sounds typically Soviet — Hero of Ukraine. Bandera was a Ukrainian patriot, but his elevation only provokes divisions in a society that has very disparate views of the recent past.


David Marples, a professor of history at the University of Alberta, is the author of Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine (2008).
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Конечно, это мнение "одного отдельно взятого профессора из Альберты".