#Ukraine condemned Andrij #Melnyk for defending #Bandera, but hypocritically still has 350+ monuments to dozens of such OUN,UPA &SS Nazi collaborators.
They are celebrated with parades & museums, & have streets, schools, parks & stadiums named after them.
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At #Peacetalks in April a #Zelenskyy adviser said #DeNazification of streets names was no problem, but #Ukraine preferred in the end to rename ones named for Russians like Tolstoy instead.
They refuse to talk to🇷🇺& prefer to escalate than try to #StopWar
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1/OUN leader #Bandera spent part of WW2 as a German prisoner after declaring independence, despite pledging allegiance to #Hitler.
He signed a leaflet at #LvivPogrom calling for destruction of 'Muscovites, Poles, Hungarians& Jews' researchgate.net/publication/28…
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#Bandera 's torchlit parade in #Kyiv is attended by 1,000's,scores of roads like that leading to #BabiYar where #Ukrainians helped massacre Jews in the #Holocaust are named for him, & he has 'several dozen monuments' in #Ukraine,3 museums ,a park &school
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2/Roman #Shuhkevych was Hauptman of SS Schutzmannschaft 201 (aka #Nachtigal Battalion) & later a leader of #Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), who were 'responsible for butchering thousands of Jews & 70-100k #Poles' in Galicia & #Volynmassacre
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#UkraineWar
#Shukhevytch 's orders on 25 Feb 1944 spoke of the need to 'speed up the liquidation of #Poles, they must be totally wiped out'
Over 50 monuments & dozens of streets are dedicated to him as well as a Stadium in #Ternopil ,two museums, a park & a school. brill.com/view/journals/…
3/Symon #Petliura was #Ukraine president from 1918-21 when tens of thousands of #Jews were killed in pogroms
Commemorated with ceremonies, at least two monuments, two street names & a movie ynetnews.com/articles/0,734…
Some #Ukrainians deny that he was responsible for massacres of #Jews that took place during his presidency.
'Secret Diary of Symon Petliura',a film by #Ukraine state media, portrays a conspiracy to 'convince the world' pogroms were 'the work of #Petliura'
4/Oleg Olzhych of the #Ukrainian National Rada helped create auxiliary police that aided the Germans & also published an #antisemitic newspaper
Remembered with over 30 street names, 2 libraries, a statue,& several plaques
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#Ukraine️ #UkraineRussiaWar
5/Cardinal Iosif Slipyi, first deputy in 1941 OUN 'government' which pledged allegiance to #Hitler
Celebrated mass at SS Galicia’s founding & provided chaplains.
Imprisoned as #Nazi collaborator in 1945
Remembered w/ 22 street names, 7 monuments, 2 schools,2 museums & a seminary
6/Yaroslav #Stetsko, #Bandera 's deputy & later PM in OUN(B) led Ukraine 1941 #Nazi-collaboration government
Wrote of 'the need to adapt German methods of exterminating #Jews in Ukraine'& how a sovereign #Ukraine was 'possible only with Germany's victory'
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In1983 #Stetsko described #Nazis as enemies (despite in 1941 promising to work with #Hitler)& seemed to claim to have 'liberated' #Lviv- referring to 1st #Lvivpogrom when many Jews were killed?
Has 9 streets, 6 monuments a school& museum dedicated to him.
7/Patriarch Mstyslav published #Holocaust celebrating antisemitic paper 'Volyn' that 'incited genocidal hatred', saying #Hitler was 'sent by Providence ..to liberate Europe.. from #Jews..'
Made head of #Ukrainian Orthodox Church in 1990,honored with a museum,9 plaques &7 streets
8/OUN split into OUN-M, led by Andryi Melnyk, & OUN-B, led by #Bandera.Both worked for #German Intelligence.
OUN-M was said to be more "moderate" but welcomed #Nazis with banners reading “Slava #Hitler! Slava Melnyk!”
Melnyk has 8 streets,2 monuments & a museum dedicated to him
9/was on 'Klym Savur'⬇️,original tweet had to be deleted to reinstate account as it was suspended for 'gore'(Volyn pics)
That sometimes breaks the thread so below is a link to the rest, which includes Russian glorification of war criminals for balance..
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