No, by Poland before the war. His guys were robbing banks, shot dead a minister of the interior, etc.
Later:
Bandera was in occupied Poland when on June 30, 1941, his comrades proclaimed an independent Ukrainian state in Nazi-occupied Lviv — and the Germans banned him from traveling to Ukraine. Adolf Hitler rejected the idea of Ukrainian independence, and Bandera was arrested and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until 1944. The OUN-B continued to fight for independence in Ukraine with the help of its military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The Nazis and the Soviets persecuted and killed OUN-B fighters.
Did you read the article? No you didn't, because you know it's historians there.
Btw,
A survey by the Democratic Initiative Foundation in April 2021 found that one out of three Ukrainians, 32%, considered Bandera's acts as positive, and just as many took the opposite view. (...) Among Ukrainians, the war seems to have brought about a radical change with regard to Bandera. In April, researchers from the Rating group, a Ukrainian research organization, found that 74% of Ukrainians now view the historical figure favorably.
Told you how much the invasion radicalised the population and moved the Overton window (far) right radically.
Ethnic Russians now hate Russia, and their families there. Commies of all sorts are illegal.
Not a single Lenin remains unless the Russians arrived in time to save it.
I checked now, and it's definitely a journo who wrote the article. You probably mean that historians were quoted. That's fine, I'll have to look into their background.
Oh, and it's not me downvoting you, even if you don't believe me.
I led a bandit out to shoot her.
She didn’t plead with me to spare her.
In pain, she bit her kerchief mutely
And glared at me with pride and anger.
And then she told me, “Listen, laddie,
I know I’m gonna get the bullet;
So let me now, before you waste me,
At my Ukraine gaze to the fullest.
At my Ukraine, where horses gallop
Under Bandera’s mighty banner;
Ukraine, where folks are hiding weapons,
And search for faith, and care for honor.
Where we have got green moonshine boiling
In whitewashed huts under the blue skies;
Where we’ve got sawed‐off shotguns poking
Against the heads of drunken Russkies.
For nomads, time to go marauding,
For Russian women, to start weeping!
Russkies or Krauts, you are not wanted,
And of our bread enough you’ve eaten!
On Ukraine’s lard you will not fatten,
Our vodka, thieves, you will not guzzle.
Our history is not yet written,
And Russia’s scribes won’t keep it muzzled.
There riding through the fields goes Bulbash,
His bridle like coin bracelets jangles;
Let commies back in Mother Russia
Do as they like and freedom strangle.
Collective farming is is their setup
To feed the lazy and the sloppy;
Here, we don’t care which one is better,
NKVD or the Gestapo.”
No, by Poland before the war. His guys were robbing banks, shot dead a minister of the interior, etc.
Later:
From https://www.dw.com/en/stepan-bandera-ukrainian-hero-or-nazi-collaborator/a-61842720 that you might read entirely as an introduction.
I'm sure there's a more reliable source out there than a journo working at the Deutsche freaking Welle...
Did you read the article? No you didn't, because you know it's historians there.
Btw,
Told you how much the invasion radicalised the population and moved the Overton window (far) right radically.
Ethnic Russians now hate Russia, and their families there. Commies of all sorts are illegal.
Not a single Lenin remains unless the Russians arrived in time to save it.
I do? Even if it is historians picked by Deutsche Welle, I'd pay more attention to that than their useless lying journos.
Unsurprising. But it's not going to work to their advantage.
They can always be erected again, once the Russians take over.
I checked now, and it's definitely a journo who wrote the article. You probably mean that historians were quoted. That's fine, I'll have to look into their background.
Oh, and it's not me downvoting you, even if you don't believe me.
I'd now perhaps recommend https://www.cato.org/commentary/ukraines-memory-wars for something deeper. It's actually by Cathy Young, if you remember her (Aiplay etc).
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