In one Interview Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andrei Melnik (46) defended Ukrainian nationalist and militant leader Stephen Bandera (1909-1959) with cyber activist Dilo Jung (36).
In Germany, Israel and many other countries, Bandera’s role in World War II is viewed with great criticism, primarily because of his troops’ cooperation with the German Nazis and their massacre of Jews. In western Ukraine, on the other hand, Bandera is revered as a national hero. His opposition to the Soviet occupiers and his commitment to Ukrainian independence are praised. Bandera’s responsibility for the Holocaust is still denied by his fans in Ukraine.
The “organization of Ukrainian nationalists”, owned by Bandera, represented radical anti-Semitic ideology that hated Jews as much as the Nazis. Sections of this organization, along with German Nazi troops, took part in several assassinations. The victims were Jewish citizens.
After the German invasion of Vermast, Bandera sought to establish an independent Ukrainian government. The German occupiers deported him to the Saxenhausen concentration camp. Bandera was released from prison in 1944. That’s extraordinary! He must support Germany in the war against the Soviet Union. After the war, Bandera lived in Germany, where he was assassinated in Munich in 1959 by an agent of the Soviet KGB.
In an interview with Jung, Melnick, who had previously spoken positively about Bandera, denied all the allegations. “He did not give any order to exterminate the Jews,” said the Ukrainian ambassador. “Many historians” have studied this. “There’s no evidence, so I will not leave it at that.”
“There is no evidence that Pandora’s troops killed hundreds of thousands of Jews,” Melnick said. Bandera is not a mass murderer of Jews and poles. “I’m not going to say I’m leaving it today, that’s all.”
But historians and Jewish organizations outside of Ukraine see things differently! In 2010, the then President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko (68) posthumously presented Bandera with the title “Hero of Ukraine”. At the time, the international community and Jewish organizations expressed clear criticism. The Simon Wise Center (SWC), which fights anti-Semitism around the world, expressed “deep hatred” and condemned the award, saying Bandera supporters “killed thousands of Jews and other people in World War II.”
The truth includes the following: In order to justify the war of criminal aggression against Ukraine, Russian politicians and their fans are now describing Ukraine as a country ruled by “Nazis.” Ukraine’s Jewish president Volodymyr Zhelenskiz, 44, is being insulted by the Russians as a Nazi.
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