Posted on 07/16/2022 6:05:55 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Beginning in 2014, when the Maidan uprising brought a new government to Ukraine, the country has been erecting monuments to Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators at an astounding pace — there’s been a new plaque or street renaming nearly every week. Because of this, the Ukraine section represents an extremely partial listing of the several hundred monuments, statues, and streets named after Nazi collaborators in Ukraine.
L’viv and Ivano-Frankivsk — 1.5 million Jews, a quarter of all Jews murdered in the Holocaust, came from Ukraine. Over the past six years, the country has been institutionalizing worship of the paramilitary Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which collaborated with the Nazis and aided in the slaughter of Jews, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which massacred thousands of Jews and 70,000-100,000 Poles. A major figure venerated in today’s Ukraine is Stepan Bandera (1909–1959), the Nazi collaborator who led a faction of OUN (called OUN-B); above are his statues in L’viv (left) and Ivano-Frankivsk (right). Many thanks to Per Anders Rudling, Tarik Cyril Amar and Jared McBride for their guidance on Ukrainian collaborators.
Ternopil and numerous other cities — Another statue of Bandera in Ternopil. Above left is a photo from Zhovkva 1941, when OUN members welcomed the Nazis, assisting with their murder of Jews. The banners include “Heil Hitler!” and “Glory to Bandera!”
Ukraine has several dozen monuments and scores of street names glorifying this Nazi collaborator, enough to require two separate Wikipedia pages (there are so many Bandera streets that only a few are listed in this project).
Kyiv — In 2016, a major Kyiv boulevard was renamed after Bandera. The renaming is particularly obscene since the street leads to Babi Yar, the ravine where Nazis, aided by Ukrainian collaborators, exterminated 33,771 Jews in two days, in one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust. Both the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the World Jewish Congress condemned the move.
Above right, the annual torchlight march on Bandera’s birthday in 2021; during the 2017 commemorations marchers chanted “Jews Out!”
Krakovets, L’viv and numerous other towns — Monuments to Roman Shukhevych (1907–1950), another OUN figure and Nazi collaborator who was a leader in Nazi Germany’s Nachtigall auxiliary battalion, which later became the 201st Schutzmannschaft auxiliary police unit. Shukhevych later commanded the brutal Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), responsible for butchering thousands of Jews and 70,000-100,000 Poles.
The World Jewish Congress condemned the glorification of Shukhevych and the statue in Ivano-Frankivsk.
Ternopil — A bust of the genocidal Yaroslav Stetsko (1912–1986), who led Ukraine’s 1941 Nazi-collaborationist government which welcomed the Germans and declared allegiance to Hitler. A rabid antisemite, Stetsko had written “I insist on the extermination of the Jews and the need to adapt German methods of exterminating Jews in Ukraine.” Five days prior to the Nazi invasion, Stetsko assured OUN-B leader Stepan Bandera: “We will organize a Ukrainian militia that will help us to remove the Jews.”
He kept his word — the German invasion of Ukraine was accompanied by horrific pogroms with the incitement and eager participation of OUN nationalists. The initial L’viv pogrom alone had 4,000 victims. By the war’s end, Ukrainian nationalist groups massacred tens of thousands of Jews, both in cooperation with Nazi death squads and on their own volition.
Below right, Stetsko’s signature on the Proclamation of Ukrainian Statehood with a pledge to “work closely with National-Socialist Greater Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.”
L’viv — A memorial plaque to Dmytro Paliiv (1896–1944), co-founder and SS-Hauptsturmführer of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) aka SS Galichina, unveiled 2007. SS Galichina was formed as a division in the Waffen-SS in 1943; among the formation’s war crimes is the Huta Pieniacka massacre, when an SS Galichina subunit slaughtered 500–1,200 Polish villagers, including burning people alive.
Below left, a march in Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), western Ukraine, 1941; below right, a march celebrating the 71st anniversary of SS Galichina’s founding, L’viv, western Ukraine, 2014. L’viv’s 2018 march consisted of hundreds giving coordinated Nazi salutes.
Bystrychi and five other locales – A memorial plaque to Taras Bulba-Borovets (1908–1973), the collaborator appointed by the Nazis to head the Ukrainian militia in the Sarny district. Bulba-Borovets’ men organized and carried out numerous pogroms, slaughtering the area’s Jews. In addition to the plaque in his native village, Bulba-Borovets has another plaque in Olevsk, a monument in Berezne and streets in Lutsk, Ovruch and Zhytomyr.
In 1940, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) split into two factions: OUN-M, led by Melnyk and OUN-B, led by Stepan Bandera. Melnyk’s faction was every bit as genocidal as Bandera’s – an OUN-M newspaper gleefully celebrated the liquidation of Kyiv’s Jews at Babi Yar (see Ivan Rohach entry below).
The OUN-M remained allied with the Nazis, same as the OUN-B. Germany’s 1941 invasion of Ukraine was welcomed with banners and proclamations such as “Glory to Hitler! Glory to Melnyk!”
Chernivtsi – A memorial to the Bukovinsky Kuren, a large paramilitary formation comprised of OUN-M members (see Andryi Melnyk entry above). The unit was originally formed in the Ukrainian-Romanian region of Bukovina and headed for Kyiv after the Nazi invasion of Ukraine in 1941. According to several reports, the unit marched into Kyiv around the time of the Babi Yar massacre, when the Nazis, aided by Ukrainian nationalists, gunned down 33,771 Jews in two days in one of the most horrific massacres of the Holocaust.
Afterward, much of the Bukovinsky Kuren was reformed into the 115th and the 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalions. The Schutzmannschaft were auxiliary police battalions composed of local collaborators in the Soviet Union, primarily Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics. They were under the Ordnungspolizei which was controlled by the SS. These battalions played a crucial role in both the war and the Holocaust: Germany used them to suppress anti-Nazi resistance and carry out the genocide by rounding Jews up in ghettos as well as slaughtering them in nearby fields and forests. Often, the Schutzmannschaft committed war crimes against Jews, other ethnicities such as the Roma and civilians on their own volition, not just under Nazi orders. (For more, see work by Martin Dean.)
Chernivtsi – A memorial to the Bukovinsky Kuren, a large paramilitary formation comprised of OUN-M members (see Andryi Melnyk entry above). The unit was originally formed in the Ukrainian-Romanian region of Bukovina and headed for Kyiv after the Nazi invasion of Ukraine in 1941. According to several reports, the unit marched into Kyiv around the time of the Babi Yar massacre, when the Nazis, aided by Ukrainian nationalists, gunned down 33,771 Jews in two days in one of the most horrific massacres of the Holocaust.
Two platoons of the 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion distinguished themselves by perpetrating the 1943 Khatyn massacre, when they liquidated a Belarusian village by burning the inhabitants alive and gunning down anyone who tried to escape. (See the New York Times on one of the perpetrators who had emigrated to Canada.)
Zhyznomyr – This village has a plaque to OUN-M member Oleksa Babiy (1909–1944) who directly participated in the Babi Yar massacre while serving in the Sonderkommando 4a unit of Einsatzgruppe C, the SS death squad that bears primary responsibility for the slaughter. Two years later, Babiy became an officer in SS Galichina, the Ukrainian Waffen-SS division (see Volodymyr Kubiyovych entry below for more on SS Galichina). Above right, Jews forced to undress and give up possessions before being shot in Babi Yar. See Yad Vashem testimonies here.
Kyiv and two other locales – A street named for OUN-M member Ivan Rohach (1914–1942). A virulent antisemite, Rohach published and edited the Ukrayins’ke Slovo, an OUN-M newspaper which vociferously advocated for the genocide of Ukraine’s Jews. On October 2, 1941, three days after Germans and Ukrainian collaborators exterminated 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar, Rohach ran an editorial titled “The Jew Is the Greatest Enemy of the People,” calling on Ukrainians to show Jews no mercy (above left).
A week later, he ran an article urging readers to be on the lookout for any Jewish survivors hiding in the city. The same week, the Ukrayins’ke Slovo celebrated the improved life in Kyiv, praising the abundance of “unoccupied” housing which had suddenly become available. (This housing was Jewish homes rendered “unoccupied” by the slaughter of their inhabitants.)
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Interesting. Obviously, there are monuments to Kremlin mass murderers all over Russia.
The article has revealed itself to be distorted misinformation, good only as propaganda, and not much good at that.
There is an obvious and major difference.
The statues and street namings of Nazi collaborators and mass murderers in Ukraine happened after 2014.
(see beginning of article)
No one held a gun to their head and made them celebrate such wicked people clamoring for atrocities against minorities.
Contrast this with the soviet union, where almost no one had a choice or say in what Lenin or Stalin did. Those who disgreed were disappeared along with their families.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia
Conservative Polish Prime Minister Duda embraces Zelinsky in friendship. He’s sending 200 Polish tanks, too. Nobody believes your gaslighting nonsense.
Lenin Square in Mariupol, Soviet flags in Dontesk, the Russian Army singing Communist songs including the Soviet Anthem and the Internationale, Putin calling Lenin a Saint, I can go on and on.
Actually, his people were killing Jews.
It’s important to remember you make a deal with a devil - Hitler to kill a greater devil - Stalin. You’re not going to emerge clean! Cutting a deal with Hitler was the only way he was going to get back at Stalin and his minions for killing 8 to 12 million of his people. Killing Russian communists was his sole interest everything else no matter how horrible was in his mind necessary to further that aim. The West was in no position to help him give him another choice certainly not in 1941. He kept his insurgency going up into the mid-1950s. There are similar stories and “unsavory heroes” in the Baltic Republics. Baltic SS veterans used to parade on their independence days. There they aren’t viewed as we would view them. The USSR kept a whole division of KGB\internal security troops in the Baltic Republics up until the USSR fell.
Much of the anti-Russian hatred there and Ukraine you can still cut it with a knife and with good reason. There’s no analog here in our history.
Is this propaganda?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia
Do you think it was an absolute coincidence that this mass murder of tens of thousands of Polish civilians was conducted by units founded by Bandera?
They don’t celebrate him with torch marches in modern Ukraine despite this assocation, they celebrate him often BECAUSE of it.
And realize there are many others far more problematic than Bandera who are celebrated with street names and statues. People who directly participated in the mass murder of civilians. It isn’t just about Bandera.
Yes, KGB Putin deploys Stalinist policy. Deportation of millions of Ukrainians, mass murder of civilians as a military tactic, genocidal ethnic cleansing, war rape, psywar gaslighting attacks, etc. We’ve seen this movie before from Russia many times.
“Killing Russian communists was his sole interest “
Then why did Bandera’s OUN-B troops mass murder tens of thousands of Polish Civilians?
It seems your views aren’t consistent with History.
If Bandera’s troops were exclusively focused on fighting soviets, then why did they spend such huge energy and effort on mass murdering tens of thousands of poles?
Regular Ukrainian units didn’t do this, it was Bandera’s OUN-B units that did it.
Keep in mind, this wasn’t the only minorities in Ukraine that these troops massacred.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia
It seems your views aren’t consistent with History.
It seems you haven’t read a newspaper in 75 years. Poland is Ukraine’s biggest supporter and it isn’t even close. They’ve seen Stalinist filth up close and personal and want no more of this cancer that spreads from Russia.
Meet the leader we (Victoria Nuland, et. al.) installed in the Ukrainian coupe de’ta. And to think this didn’t end up well.
https://twitter.com/Mtruthfacts (video at site)
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david kersten
@davidkersten
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Jul 6
Before there was Zelensky there was Poroshenko.
“Our kids will go to schools and kindergartens and theirs will sit in basements.”
No wonder Russia intervened.
“They don’t know how to do anything. And this way is exactly how we will win this war. Because we will have jobs and they will not. We will have pensions but they will not. We will have care for people, kids, the elderly, but they will not. Our kids will sit in schools, kindergartens, but their will sit in the basement.”
A bunch of extremist Ukrainian nationalists tried to drive ethnic Poles out of a region they considered to be Ukrainian.
An atrocity, certainly.
But what does it have to do with Nazism?
Were the Serbs acting as Nazis when they tried to drive the Bosniaks and Croats out of Bosnia?
If you think so, you need a better dictionary.
“Our kids will go to schools and kindergartens and theirs will sit in basements.”
I think about that quote of Poroshenko’s more than any other for this war.
Since Maiden. About 2014
Love it when so-called patriots start citing leftwing publications to forward their latest obsession.
Love it when so-called patriots start citing leftwing publications to forward their latest obsession.
You mean like Wikipedia?
Something is broken within you.
You call the mass murder of almost 100,000 CIVILIANS a mere attempt to “drive them out”.
Maybe you could be public relations for mass murderers.
That’s a clever twist of words to minimize an epic atrocity.
Should people who inspired and participated in mass murders, be celebrated by modern Ukrainians with new statues and street namings?
Is it just “propaganda” if people are concerned about this?
Maybe you could send a letter to the world Jewish congress, explaining that the butchery of various minorities in Ukraine was ok with you since at one point they also allied with the nazis to fight the soviets.
Why can’t they pick heroes who aren’t associated with mass murder?
How about this one?
“L’viv — A memorial plaque to Dmytro Paliiv (1896–1944), co-founder and SS-Hauptsturmführer of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) aka SS Galichina, unveiled 2007. SS Galichina was formed as a division in the Waffen-SS in 1943; among the formation’s war crimes is the Huta Pieniacka massacre, when an SS Galichina subunit slaughtered 500–1,200 Polish villagers, including burning people alive.”
What do you think?
How about this one?
“Bystrychi and five other locales – A memorial plaque to Taras Bulba-Borovets (1908–1973), the collaborator appointed by the Nazis to head the Ukrainian militia in the Sarny district. Bulba-Borovets’ men organized and carried out numerous pogroms, slaughtering the area’s Jews. In addition to the plaque in his native village, Bulba-Borovets has another plaque in Olevsk, a monument in Berezne and streets in Lutsk, Ovruch and Zhytomyr.”
These are the people they single out for praise and statues
Yes, they were killing Jews:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941)
https://web.archive.org/web/20071218141039/http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/hofer.html
Just a couple out of many examples.
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