Thread by @mossrobeson__

👋 to the many people who have followed me since the day before yesterday, which incidentally was the 63rd anniversary of the KGB's assassination of Stepan Bandera in Munich. ('Who?' 1. ⬇️, 2.📚💻)

Believe it or not, the 'Bandera Organization' (OUN-B) is alive and well today. 🧵

Most of my followers might have wondered at some point what's my header image. Tbh I just needed something, but it's 🇺🇸 OUN-B leaders making a pilgrimage to Bandera's grave on the 60th anniversary of his death. So this thread will be a 101 on OUN-B in 🇺🇸 (sequels: 🇬🇧,🇨🇦,🇺🇦,🇦🇺?)

This is Borys Potapenko, chairman of the "International Council in Support of Ukraine," AKA the "World Council of Ukrainian Statehood Organizations," formerly known as the "World Ukrainian Liberation Front," an international coordinating body of OUN-B "facade structures" (fronts)

Potapenko seems to be the int'l coordinator of the far-right "Capitulation Resistance Movement" (ROK) organized in 2019 🇺🇦 against Zelensky's efforts to end the war in Donbas. Potapenko is part of the ROK leadership, chaired by Andriy Levus, the deputy head of OUN-B for policy.

Potapenko, former exec.dir. of OUN-B's League of Ukrainian Canadians, is from Warren, MI, where he recently attended an event for a delegation of the neo-Nazi-led Azov movement. In 1978-79 he led a campaign against TV airing of "Holocaust" starring Meryl Streep and James Woods.

Let's move on to the 🇺🇸 OUN-B leader, former NYU professor Walter "WAZ" Zaryckyj, president of the Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation (UAFF), which published the 🇺🇸 OUN-B newspaper and owns 40% of the OUN-B headquarters building in Kyiv. WAZ accused me of bugging their 🇺🇸 HQ.

"We're gonna go after Wiesenthal." In 1989, WAZ ranted to the OUN-B affiliated Ukrainian Youth Association in 🇨🇦 about Nazi hunters Simon Wiesenthal and Charles R. Allen. WAZ is the longtime exec.dir. of the Center for US-Ukrainian Relations an important OUN-B "facade structure."

WAZ / Zaryckyj is the last known chairman of the International Scholarly Council of the Ukrainian World Congress. He admitted to me that he attended the April 2019 launch of far-right, anti-Zelensky "Protect Ukraine" campaign that grew into the "Capitulation Resistance Movement."

Walter Zaryckyj's Center for US-Ukrainian Relations (CUSUR) grew out of the "informational arm" of the UAFF, i.e. the 🇺🇸 branch of the OUN-B's 🇺🇦 Central Information Service (UCIS) that shared its London HQ with a Stepan Bandera museum, the director of which led OUN-B in 1986-91.

CUSUR was establish in 2000 with its first steering committee chaired by Potapenko's mentor, Bohdan Fedorak, who died in 2021 as the chairman since 1986 of the honorary "Ukrainian State Board" in exile, established by OUN-B on June 30, 1941 in Nazi-occupied western Ukraine.

Next up: Paul Bandriwsky, last known treasurer of the "International Council in Support of Ukraine" (OUN-B coordinating body). Vice president of the Banderite-dominated Illinois Division of the @UkrCongComAm. I tweeted about him recently:

Paul Bandriwsky's brother Emil runs the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center in Buffalo, owned by the Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation (OUN-B). Incidentally, this building appears to have been the birthplace of the Nazi 'German-American Bund.' banderalobby.substack.com/p/buffalo-wher…

Olya Soroka, board member of the Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation, chairs the Holodomor Descendants' Network that is affiliated with the OUN-infested Ukrainian World Congress, the first vice president of which is Stefan Romaniw, international OUN-B leader from Melbourne, 🇦🇺

That leaves us with Bohdan Harhaj, who I've gathered is the "grey cardinal" of the group. But I think it's better to save this mysterious figure for a sequel thread on the OUN-B in 🇬🇧 because that is where he's from.

TBC(?):

What's next:

I suppose this is the part where I plug my (100% free) Substack about OUN-B, which I'm going to get going again after several months of inactivity. Recently I wrote this for my "Bandera Lobby Blog": banderalobby.substack.com/p/the-banderit…