Putin’s favorite soldier posts a link to an interview in an attempt to prove that the people “behind Euromaidan” were fascists/“banderites”, I point out that the article says the opposite. My comment gets removed, and I get banned. In other news, water is wet.
I was not surprised there were Ukrainians desperate enough to collaborate with the nazis. However how badly Ukrainians were treated up until WWII by Stalinist USSR, some where probably desperate enough to view nazis as allies when they werent. Bandera and Melnyk were imprisoned for some time in concentration camps (and later moved to other forms of imprisonment) by the nazis from 1941, mainly for the OUN wanting an independent Ukraine.
Nowadays, for many Ukrainians both the nazis and Soviets were oppressors. And many celebrate people who supported independence and dont equate them to nazis because of the fact that they were stabbed in the back. Looking at the facts, by typical tankie logic that is applied to Melnyk and Bandera, the Soviet Union should also be counted as a nazi collaborator (due to Ribbentrop-Molotov pact). But tankies have double standards and make excuses.
But due to Melnyk’s antisemitism and helping with the murder of Jews, it is beyond me why Zelenskiy, a Jew, decided to attend that reburial.
I wouldn’t use it as evidence for a nazi government in Ukraine though. A lot of Ukrainians have strange positions due to constantly being victimized by an imperialist Soviet Union and an imperialist Russia.
There are probably better figures to honor that neither support the nazis nor the Soviets.