I am a Jew from the Ukraine. I don’t live there anymore, but I can’t imagine things would have changed that much. Ukrainian nationalists tend to be very antisemitic. Not all of them, of course. I am sure, there are many decent people. And I have absolutely nothing against ethnic Ukrainians. But there is a strain of virulent, murderous antisemitism within the nationalist block that is very dangerous. I believe it is a big mistake that legitimate Ukrainian nationalists have not disavowed this movement within their movement. According to an analysis I have read, members of this fascist faction from the parties of Freedom and Right Block have taken many key positions within the provisional government of Ukraine. I am scared of them. They are up to no good. I saw youtube videos where they have been marching and chanting: “Bandera will come back and bring back order.” Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist and is a Ukrainian national hero. To many Ukrainian people, he represents the ideal of Ukrainian liberation. But it is also true that his people have been involved into very bloody raids against ethnic Russians and Jews. As a Jew, I shudder when I hear the name “Bandera.”
PGR, I posted this after you asked "who are they?" on another thread. I realized I did not really know either, so on pursuing that I found this and posted it.
Anyway see the posts above from Mimi3.
Thanks so much for your additions to this thread!!
Yeah, evil they, evil ! That's why you came here after 6 months without a single post, at 4 AM ET, to play on Kremlin's “they are old fascists” old (going back to pre-WW2 times) tune. Thank you.
Even Poles who hate Russians with a passion have reservations about supporting the “Banderowcy” whose heroes slaughtered thousands of Poles during the war.