Whoa. I’m learning a lot right now. Anybody mind posting links
That PeaceCorp message is the definition of copping pleas
I translated it from french to english (thanks google translate), can't write long paragraphs in english
Ukraine bans the Soviet monuments of the great patriotic war which saw millions of Ukrainians die to install instead a cult of personality to Bandera leader of the OUN-B responsible among other things for the massacres of Poles, Jews and communist supporters.
Nazism and Holocaust denial in Ukraine does not stop at Azov and the Right Sector, it is institutional.
Role of the OUN and the Ukrainian nationalists in the Jewish genocide and the massacre of the Poles.
The OUN pursued a policy of infiltrating German police to obtain weapons and training for fighters. In this role, he helped the Germans carry out the Holocaust. Although most Jews were actually killed by Germans, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, working for the Germans, played a crucial supporting role in the liquidation of 200,000 Jews in Volhynia in the second half of 1942
Successive Ukrainian governments have been reluctant to maintain the memory of the massacre, choosing on the contrary, out of anti-communism or Russophobia, to glorify the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), described as fighters of the freedom and nationalists despite their involvement in the Holocaust. In 2015, members of the OUN-UPA were labeled in a memorial law as "fighters for the Ukrainian state", while former Ukrainian officers who participated in the Babi Yar massacre were celebrated in 2021 with the inauguration of commemorative plaques.
The director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinksi, indicates that the Ukrainian authorities wish, in doing so, to celebrate “a struggle that finds an echo in the current confrontation with Russia. But what is not mentioned is the xenophobic and anti-Semitic ideology of the OUN, which described Jews as a "mostly hostile body within our national body", or that the OUN militia- UPA collaborated and also massacred 100,000 Polish, Jewish, Russian citizens… in the name of an ethnically pure Ukraine”.
Few links:
Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Wikipedia
Babi Yar - Wikipedia
The Ukrainian parliament proposes to recognize collaborators of the OUN as heroes of the nation: