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Ukraine On Fire
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[The documentary that tells you everything you need to know about Ukraine.]

2/Putin stated that Russia is "de-Nazifying" Ukraine (i.e. removing extreme right Nazi groups in Ukraine). Western analysts say that's an excuse to invade Ukraine to protect a "fake" group of people (peoples in the Donbas) b/c Putin wants to "rebuild the Russian Empire". What's

3/fact and what's fiction? You decide. Watch the film.
[7:06]
“When WW2 broke out, a large part of Western Ukraine’s population welcomed the German soldiers as liberators from the recently forced-upon-them Soviet rule and openly collaborated with the Germans. The real scale

4/"of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war, but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by Ukrainian collaborators such as SS Galatsian, Naktagal and Roland Batallians. Just in the beginning of the war, more than 80,000 people from the

5/"Galachina region voluntarily enrolled into Division SS Galatsian in a month and a half, notorious for their extreme cruelty toward the Polish, Jewish and Russian people on the territory of Ukraine. Members of these military groups came mostly from the Organization of Ukrainian

6/"Nationalists, the OUN. Founded in 1929, this organization had an ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure independent Ukraine, and considered terror an acceptable tool for achieving their ends…
The most notorious and outrageous massacre took place September 29th & 30th,

7/"1941, in Babi Yar, Kiev…33,771 Jews were killed in this 2-day operation of the Nazis and the Ukrainian militia...
[12:19] “In this battle [Cold War b/t the US & USSR] the US never lost sight of Ukraine’s importance. US intelligence kept a close eye on Ukrainian nationalists

8/"organizations as a possible source of counterintelligence against the Soviet Union. CIA documents that just recently have been declassified show strong ties b/ty US intelligence and Ukrainian nationalists since 1946. From the CIA agency report it is clear that they were not

9/"mistaken about the nature of the Ukrainian nationalists organization or their leader Stefan Bandera himself..
[15:11] “The seeds of Ukrainian nationalism were passed from generation to generation. Unfortunately it was just a matter of time before they would once again blossom.

10/"In 1954 Ukraine’s territory was expanded even more when Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the USSR and a Ukrainian himself, generously gave the Crimea region to Ukraine. Historians would argue about the legitimacy of this transfer for many years to come, and 60 years after

11/"Khrushchev’s gift [2014], dramatic new events would take place in Crimea.
[16:46] “But inside the USSR [in the 1980s] the weakening of Kremlin control had different consequences. In Ukraine a nationalistic political organization, Narodniy Rukh, or Peoples Movement, emerged

12/"in 1989 due to this new openness. They advocated for independence of Ukraine from the USSR and became an incubator for leaders of Ukrainian Neo-Nazism. In 1991, one of them, Oleh Tyahnybok, founded Svoboda, an openly radical nationalist party preaching the good old principles

13/"of Bandera…Purge Ukraine from the Jews and Russians. Ukraine for Ukrainians, and so on…
[Tyahnybok shouts: “Glory to Ukraine!”]
[18:11] “Dmitri Yarosh founded another extreme right organization, Trizub, or Trident, in 1994. In April 2013 Yarosh became an assistant to a

14/"member of Parliament from the opposition party Udar. Later that same year he would become the leader of the most radical Ukrainian Nazi group, the Right Sector. Andriy Parubiy would soon appear leading a whole army of ultra-nationalist warriors, and the torch marches would

15/"once again light up the streets of Ukrainian cities.
[18:56] “The world drastically changed in August 1991 when the USSR de facto ceased to exist and the global map welcomed many newcomers, Ukraine one of them. In modern history it was the first time Ukraine was truly

16/"truly independent and all on its own.
[21:12]
“Ukraine has had two Color Revolutions in its 24 years of independence. In 2004 crowds of people descended upon Kiev marking the start of the Orange Revolution. At that time Ukraine became once again became a battlefield of two

17/"forces - the Russian and Western governments. The culmination of this conflict took place in the Presidential elections in 2004. The two major candidates, Western-backed Viktor Yushchenko and Russian leaning Victor Yanukovych almost equally shared…
[The US liked Yushchenko]

18/"The division was along geographic lines. Traditionally Russian Eastern Ukraine voted for Yanukovych while Western Ukraine chose Yushchenko.
[Yushchenko decreed Bandera a hero]
[24:38]
“The hero status of Stefan Bandera was short-lived. In 2010 Viktor Yanukovych was elected

19/"president. This time the international community had no doubts about the legitimacy of the elections. In Jan 2011 Viktor Yanukovych repealed the hero title of Bandera. Almost 4 hears into his presidency tho another revolution shook Ukraine. Unfortunately this one was

20/"anything but peaceful.
[28:30] “Violent clashes erupted in the Ukrainian capital Kiev as more than 100,000 people protested against a government decision to delay an association deal w/ the EU."
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21/Ukraine On Fire
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Watch. Learn. Understand history.
What are Volodymyr Zelensky's ties to these extreme right Nazi groups? He said "Glory to Ukraine!"in his address to Congress. Is the West fighting on behalf

22/of Western Ukraine's Nazi sympathizers, who made Stefan Bandera a hero? I ask the question. I dare you to provide the answer.

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