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25 Nov, 8 tweets, 6 min read
This Kyiv Post article suggests that the perception in Italy that its Ukrainian community is dominated by radical rightists is just "anti-Ukraine propaganda." So let us take a look at the Italian Ukrainian leader of the #FreeMarkiv campaign, Oles Horodetskyy...
For starters, Horodetskyy met another hero of his in 2014, Right Sector founder Dmytro Yarosh. Seems to credit Mykhailo Ratushny for arranging the meeting--someone who is very well connected to both the Ukrainian diaspora and the far-right in Ukraine: facebook.com/photo?fbid=153…
Horodetskyy is president of the Christian Society of Ukrainians in Italy (CSUI) & coordinated "Euromaidan Rome." CSUI is apparently a member org of @ICSUkraine, the int'l coordinating body of OUN-B affiliated organizations. Horodetskyy & ICSU at Bandera's grave with OUN-B leader:
And this is Horodetskyy with Yuriy Syrotyuk, a leading member of the crypto-Nazi Svoboda party who I *think* is also a member of the OUN-B. (About that another time.) Pic taken at Bandera's grave in Munich last year for the 60th anniversary of the Ukrainian fascist leader's death
Between 2014-18, Radio Svoboda published 13 articles by Horodetskyy, including a typically Banderite rebuttal to a @ForeignPolicy article that dubbed the OUN-B's Volodymyr Viatrovych "The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past." Horodetskyy & Viatrovych have been friends for years
In July 2015, after Right Sector got into a shootout with Ukrainian police (nytimes.com/2015/07/13/wor…), Horodetskyy's Christian Society of Ukrainians in Italy and Euromaidan Rome organized a flash mob in front of the Colosseum to show their unwavering support for Right Sector.
Just noticed, that’s Natalia Tsebryk, the crypto-Nazi Svoboda party’s representative in Rome, who is/was also a board member of Italy’s far-right General Labour Union (UGL)
In 2017 the main Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Rome hosted an event to honor the fake 75th anniversary of the OUN-B's Ukrainian Insurgent Army which massacred many thousands of Jews & Poles. Pictured:
Tsebryk & Andrii Illienko, leading Svoboda member

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#Thread re: Erin O'Toole, the new leader of 🇨🇦's Conservative Party, and the Banderites, as in members and fellow travelers of Stepan Bandera (1909-59)'s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which collaborated with the Nazis during WW2 and collaborates with 🇺🇦 neo-Nazis today.
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#Thread of Ukrainian diaspora nationalist monuments and memorials glorifying Nazi collaborators, most of them built on behalf of the fascistic Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera (OUN-B)
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