Thread by @SmartEconomy

The #Bandera, #UPA question, an academic perspective

Stefan Brandera wasn’t even in Ukraine when the Germans entered Lviv & a week later, Germany sent him to a concentration camp. He was more of a USA/CIA collaborator then a alleged Nazi collaborator-the Russian narrative.
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Read the real history, not the Soviet revisionist history

🇺🇦 auxiliary police,often misbranded as Nazis, were put under SS German control the day Germany entered 🇺🇦. Orders given for Jews to be rounded up in the streets of Lviv, & taken to prison on Lonsky, to dispose of Ukrainian UPA corpses, killed previously by retreating Soviets.
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What Jewish diaspora & Russian trolls ignore is that a week after the pogrom, 1,000s of Jewish workers were killed by the Germans in Lonsky prison, not by Ukrainians.
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Yes, there was mocking & belittling of Jews in the streets, b/c Lviv townspeople mistakenly thought Jews were being arrested for the deaths of UPA partisans and taken to Lonsky prison, according a German scholar. ( not justification, but an error of perception )
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UPA was a🇺🇦partisan army fighting foreign oppressors, colonisers,colonialists-Russians & Poles. Since Jews mostly held pro-Polish sentiments & historically were the land holders, tavern owners, church lease-holder & tax collectors,they were perceived as part of the problem.
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Jewish exploitation of Ukrainian peasants & serfs was one of the root causes of this animosity.
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After the retreat of the Soviet army, Ukrainians initially mistakenly welcomed the Germans, thinking they were liberators. Then reality set in, and the perception of Hitler & Germany was quickly reversed.
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