How many monuments must be erected to Nazi murderers, streets named after them and days of remembrance before @IAPonomarenko admits that the Nazi gangrene is deeper than tattoos and insignia?
In Kalush a street named after Dmytro Paliyiv of the Nazi Waffen SS «Galizia» #Ukraine
Kyiv City Council named street after antisemitic editor of Nazi n/paper «Volyn» in Rivne - Ulas Samchuk. Samchuk wrote many articles justifying murders and calling to kill Jews. N/paper published 318 anti-Jewish pieces while 25k Jews in Rivne were killed, incl. 6k Jewish children
As of today there are over 100 plaques, parks, streets, monuments named after Stepan Bandera the Ukrainian OUN-B leader.
In Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kiev, Ternopil ...
Zhovkva welcomed the Nazi invasion of Ukraine with banners: “Heil Hitler! Glory to Petliura! Glory to Bandera!”
The Ternopil State Regional Administration has a huge poster of Stepan Bandera WWII leader of Ukrainian nationalists that heavily participated in Holocaust and perpetrated ethnic cleansing of peaceful Poles population in 1943-44.
But the elements decided that was enough.
Vyzhnytsia Town Council renamed a street to honor Orest Bylak - a Nazi war criminal from 115 Schutzmannshaft Police battalion that took part in mass murders of Jews in Belorussia.
Mykola Mikhnovsky, the Nationalist ideologist who wrote: «Muscovites, Poles, Jews are enemies of our people» and «Ukraine is for Ukrainians only» has also a street named after him in Kyiv. He is still celebrated by the Ukrainian World Congress ukrainianworldcongress.org/mykola-mikhnov…
Dmytro Negrych, a Nazi war criminal, perpetrator of Holocaust, head of auxiliary police, mass murderer of more than 20, 000 Kolomya Jews has his modern Ukrainian monument and is celebrated.
In 1944 deserted to UPA and took part in massacre of ethnic Poles. Killed in 1945.
Roman Riznyak, a Nazi war criminal, mass murderer of thousands of Jews during Holocaust and Poles in UPA, commander of the Nazi Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in 1941-44 is also celebrated every year. Here in Truskavets city authorities and public celebrate his 100th anniversary.
Danylo Rudak, another butcher of Jews and Poles, is also celebrated by old and young followers.
He was an officer of 201st Shutzmannshaft battalion and Ukrainian Auxillary police.
Vasyl Andrusyak, platoon commander in Nazi Roland auxiliary battalion of Ukrainian OUN-B volunteers.
Reorganized as 201st Schutzmannschaft aux. police battalion, involved in lethal antisemitic violence and brutal suppression of anti-Nazi resistance in Belarus.
Monument in Snyatyn
There are so many ... but this thread wouldn't be complete without Andryi Melnyk (memorial complex in Volya Yakubova, Ukraine), who headed the other OUN, M for Melnyk. His organization was as sadistic and murderous as OUN-B. He is celebrated throughout western Ukraine.
The Bukovinsky Kuren (OUN-M), a large paramilitary formation morphing into the SS-controlled 115th & 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalions carrying genocide by rounding up Jews and slaughtering them along with Roma and civilians often on their own volition.
Memorial in Chernivtsi
And gosh, do they celebrate the Volyn Massacre as much as they can.
Here is the honorary opening of a memorial to Kuzma Brychko - Ukrainian nationalists, who participated in mass murders of Jews during Holocaust and destruction of peaceful Polish population.
If you want to learn more abt the extent of Nazi celebration in Ukraine, you'd need to visit the excellent research by Lev Golinkin & Eduard Dolinsky.
Click on any dot to get the detail.
PS: Canada do love Ukrainian Nazis too! google.com/maps/d/viewer?…
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🧵This is Pekka Kallioniemi, the Finn behind the #vatniksoup series, something in between the Myrotvorets and english tabloids.
Pekka is a postdoctorate fellow at Tampere University, Finland whose specialty includes ... social media, propaganda and disinformation (sic)
Pekka has created +/- 200 🧵 on people he associates with Russia who are
- professional journalists guilty of providing balance on the conflict
- "pro-Russian" accounts whose only sin is to be tired of the Russophobia/ Western hegemony
- Peace activists (stop the bloodshed)
His "entries" aren't without flaws and errors but they're not supposed to be accurate. They espoused the tabloid format aimed at triggering reactions or upsetting the subject. To this effect, he doesn't hide his chauvinism and bigotry, smearing his subjects.
We are again on the eve of the Victory Day. And I want to ask your forgiveness. Forgive us for failing, forgetting about your exploits and war heroes. In the eternal disputes we have lost the main thing – our history.
After all, you defended Moscow, froze in the Belarusian swamps, liberated Prague. And now they say that it was in vain. That your victory was an occupation, that Leningrad could have bn surrendered, that I should pity the Nazis, and that the Victory Parade is a victory psychosis.
Born in the former Soviet Union, I am asked - I can't keep quiet either - about the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Unsurprisingly 99% of people repeat mass media talking points ad nauseam, which renders the conversation predictable and annoying.
Something that struck me though (1
Is how little they know abt either country. Ask anyone when Ukraine was an independent state prior to 1991 and ...🥴
Never 😮
Ask them how minorities in Ukraine
About Donbas
Every time they repeat "Yes but Putin ... imperialist ... genocidal maniac blah blah"
They know nothing.
Since I know many of them, I ask what happened to their sense of moral when the US bombed Iraq, Libya, Syria ... left Afghanistan on the verge of a famine.
I think people in the West are way too happy to demonize Putin and Russians.
They project their hidden guilt onto others.
🧵 We’re going to hear a lot more about the fighters of the Ukraine’s’ foreign legion as they are killed, taken prisoners, or going back home disillusioned. One of the central questions is should they be considered UAF or mercenaries?
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I am not a lawyer, but I am interested in their motives, which should inform us of their status. They come from 52 countries including the US, the UK, the EU, Georgia as far as Afghanistan numbering btw 20,000 & 30,000. 2)
For the most part, these are career soldiers trained by the US/NATO, a critical fact for it governs their ideology. If most have joined in the last 3 months, some have been with Azov for 4 or more years.
‼️ All have come on their free will ‼️ businessinsider.com/ukraine-foreig…
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