Completely absent from Professor Snyder’s “Bloodlands”, published in late 2010, is any reference to the fascist & violently anti~Semitic Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and its notorious leader, Stepan Bandera, who was allied with the Nazis in WWII. 1/
https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1487815893484720131
The omission was remarkable because Snyder had previously written at length in the NY Review of Books about Bandera and the Ukrainian fascist movement. Its criminal legacy, he wrote, was a major factor in contemporary Ukrainian politics. 2/
Snyder explained that the pro-US candidate Yushchenko lost the 2010 election because of widespread hatred in Ukraine of the rightwing nationalists. Before leaving office, Yushchenko named Bandera a national hero. /3
Snyder wrote in early 2010 that Yushchenko was defeated “because far more Ukrainians identify with the Red Army than with nationalist partisans from Western Ukraine.” 4/
But for reasons best known to Snyder, he dropped all references to the Ukrainian fascists in “Bloodlands”, and for the last decade has been promoting the sanitized version of Ukrainian nationalism favored by the CIA. He has degraded history into state propaganda. 5/5
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