In 2004 Tyahnybok was expelled from the Our Ukraine parliamentary group for a speech calling for Ukrainians to fight against a "Muscovite-Jewish mafia." His advisor Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn established a "‘Joseph Goebbels Political Research Centre" un 2005. Mykhalchyshyn referred to the Holocaust as a "period of Light in history". Andreas Umland, a political scientist at the National University of Kiev Academy, wrote: "Svoboda is a racist party promoting explicitly ethnocentric and anti-Semitic ideas. Inside, Svoboda is much more radical and xenophobic than what we see”.