Introducing the Ukrainian Youth Association of America (CYM-A), an old crypto-fascist cult under the heavy influence of the "Bandera movement" since 1946. The OUN-B & its partisan army, the UPA, collaborated with the Nazis during WW2 & the Holocaust —"heroes" according to CYM-A.
I just realized the principal CYM-A camp is in Ellenville, NY, the same Ulster county I live in. CYM-A [aka SUMA]'s Ellenville camp ("Oselia") pictured below: the year it opened (1955), on the 25th anniversary of the UPA leader's death (1975), and its "Heroes Monument" today.
Drone footage of the Ellenville CYM-A camp & its "Heroes Monument" from June 30, 2017, the anniversary of the OUN-B's 1941 attempt to create a Nazi puppet state in Ukraine. Yaroslav Stetsko, Bandera's war criminal deputy & successor behind the '41 declaration, spoke here in 1975.
Here is another, newer CYM-A camp ("Beskyd") which can be found in Baraboo, Wisconsin, featuring its fascist "Heroes Monument," including a bust of the wanna-be Hitler of Ukraine, Stepan Bandera.
Photos from last summer at the CYM-A camp in Baraboo, Wisconsin, where Ukrainian-American children & teens act out nationalistic protests and drills, among other things. The fascist OUN-UPA slogan "Heroyam slava" ("Glory to the Heroes") and flag (red and black) can be seen below:
Another CYM-A camp ("Cholodni Yar"), located in upstate New York, near the Canadian border. They make a lot of big fires. These photos are also from last summer. The last one is the camp's current Facebook profile picture.
Even arts and crafts is sort of fashy when you go to the "C-Y-M-A!"
Turns out the Baraboo camp was established in 1961. Perhaps CYM has left its mark on the small city of 12,000?
More images from the crypto-fascist Ukrainian Youth Association camp in Baraboo, Wisconsin that reflect SUM/CYM's reverence for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which prioritized the mass murder & ethnic cleansing of Poles & Jews in western Ukraine > fighting Nazis & Soviets.
Ukrainian American youth marching around the CYM camp in Baraboo, Wisconsin (2012), where the memory and legacy of western Ukraine's Nazi collaborators has been celebrated for decades.
CYM is really big on singing around huge fires. In the first picture, one can see the letters of the UPA—is this not a fashy tradition?
Today I went to the CYM/SUM camp in Ellenville, New York, to see their “Heroes Monument.” Left to right, OUN founder Yevhen Konovalets, WW1-era UNR leader Symon Petliura, WW2-era UPA commander Roman Shukhevych, and OUN-B “Providnyk” Stepan Bandera — 3/4 were Nazi collaborators.
Some more pictures I took at the CYM/SUM camp in Ellenville, NY today: in the first photo, busts of the OUN-B’s Roman Shukhevych (L) and Stepan Bandera (R), and next: WW1-era figures Yevhen Konovalets (L) and Symon Petliura (R). Last pic is of the view from the “Heroes Monument.”
Construction of the Ukrainian American Youth Association's "Heroes Monument" in Ellenville, New York (1962). According to Stepan Bandera's biographer Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, a construction company owned by two members of the US Society of UPA Vets built the monument for free.
Thread about the “Heroes’ Holiday,” an annual event at the CYM/SUM-A summer camp in Ellenville, NY—not a Ukrainian Nazi “cult” per se, but an OUN-B affiliated militant nat’l youth group with deep-seated cult-worship of western Ukraine’s Nazi collaborators.
Jr. Sgt. Volodymyr Vernyhora is sitting on the left, appears to have a patch from the Azov Brigade's Mykola Stsiborskyi school (named for fascist OUN ideologue who "envisioned the state as a 'natiocracy,' an ethnically defined totalitarianism"-@parudling)
Lt. Arseniy Fedosiuk has been photographed with people making Nazi salutes. His laptop has a sticker of the hardcore neo-Nazi paramilitary group ("Patriot of Ukraine") that spawned Azov. He followed an overtly neo-Nazi VK account "12 years not a slave" (referring to 1933-45)
Part 3 🧵— Some have said Azov can't be neo-Nazi, because one of its most famous fighters is of "Jewish origin." After losing a leg in Azovstal and being freed in a prisoner exchange, Ruslan "David" Serbov visited Israel for rehabilitation, which he used to promote 🇺🇦 Nazi brands
"David" was among the Azov fighters flown to Mariupol by 🇺🇦 military intelligence after 🇷🇺 invaded. Here he is in
Azovstal with Oleksandr Kravtsov, the Hitler-tattooed commander of the "Ведмеді SS," an openly neo-Nazi squad that fought with Azov Regiment.
Azov's "myth-busting" website () says that "David" went to Israel in November 2022. By February 2023 he visited the Dead Sea, wearing a hoodie that says "NS," which is a double entendre: "National Socialist" and "North Side," the name of this neo-Nazi brand azovcontrafake.com
According to his LinkedIn account, Smelyansky has worked in Tel Aviv for years and has "native or bilingual" proficiency in Hebrew + Russian, but he obviously identifies as a 🇺🇦 neo-Nazi. Here he is with Azov leader Andriy Biletsky, wearing 🇺🇦 Nazi brands "SvaStone" and "REICH."
Smelyansky's a big fan of SvaStone owned by Arseniy Bilodub, a leader of extremist Right Sector & the neo-Nazi band "Sokyra Peruna." Smelyansky has one of their "V Legion" shirts & his private Instagram quotes one of their songs. He met Bilodub last year.
The "Israeli Friends of Ukraine" is said to be "the leading pro-🇺🇦 organization in 🇮🇱" & works closely w. the 🇺🇦 embassy in Tel Aviv. Zelensky awarded medals (3rd degree Order of Merit) to IFU co-chairs, including Vyacheslav Feldman who has signed rockets for Gaza "Slava Ukraini"
A year ago, the "Israeli Friends of Ukraine" arranged meetings in Tel Aviv for Azov vet Arseniy Fedosiuk (circled in 3rd pic), whose wife has traveled around the world on behalf of this neo-Nazi movement & used to work for one of its far-right publishers.
Does anyone think that the far-right Svoboda party having a unit in Ukraine's National Guard led to the "depoliticization" of either? Of course not, because that sounds ridiculous, except when you replace "Svoboda party" with "Azov movement," then you are making perfect sense...
@lingerence noticed that "Rubizh," the 🇨🇦-trained "Rapid Reaction Brigade" in 🇺🇦Nat'l Guard, shared an image of one of its solders w. red eyes and a patch of neo-Nazi "Misanthropic Division" affiliated with Azov mvmt. He's also wearing an Azov-linked brand, "Company Group Team."
Zelensky also awarded the "Hero of Ukraine" title to Andriy Zhovanyk (1975-2022), commander of the far-right "V Legion" sponsored by the neo-Nazi brand "SvaStone" and linked to neo-Nazi band "Sokyra Peruna." Zhovanyk's squad fought with far-right Carpathian Sich and Right Sector.
V Legion social media includes unsurprising hints of Nazism. They're promoted by the white supremacist SvaStone brand, and advertised a concert in honor of "Hammer," a neo-Nazi commander from Right Sector (who had a V Legion shirt)
Photo of V Legion with 🇺🇸 tanks including its Nazi deputy commander, Andriy Bilodub of SvaStone, Sokyra Peruna and Right Sector. In another post featuring Bilodub, the caption says "our squad performs the following tasks ... [including] preparation for coups, regimes overthrow."