Open fascism and neo-Nazi extremism are alive and well in Ukraine...EuroMaidan protesters destroyed a memorial to Ukrainians who died battling German occupation during World War II.
further.... 15,000 Svoboda members held a torchlight ceremony in the city of Lviv in honor of Stepan Bandera, a World War II-era 'Nazi collaborator' who led the pro-fascist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B).
... Lviv has become the epicenter of neo-fascist activity in Ukraine, with elected Svoboda officials waging a campaign to rename its airport after Bandera..(Bandera held fast to fascist ideology in the years after the war, advocating a totalitarian, ethnically pure Europe), and successfully changing the name of Peace Street to the name of the Nachtigall Battalion, an OUN-B wing that participated directly in the Holocaust...... “’Peace’ is a holdover from Soviet stereotypes,” a Svoboda deputy explained....
Additionally... 'Sieg heil salutes' and the 'Nazi Wolfsangel' symbol have become an increasingly common site in Maidan Square, and neo-Nazi forces established “autonomous zones” in and around Kiev during the protests and since.
The ultra-nationalist Svoboda, whose leader, Oleh Tyahnybok, called for the liberation of his country from the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia.”... After the 2010 conviction of the Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk for his supporting role in the death of nearly 30,000 people at the Sobibor camp,.....Tyahnybok rushed to Germany to declare him a hero who was “fighting for truth.”
Armed neo-fascists thugs, with appropriate logos, in the streets of Kiev
Ukrainian football has long been blighted by violent hooliganism fueled by heavily infiltrated by neo-Nazi supporters
Athens Greece..
