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In reply to the discussion: Jews ordered to register in east Ukraine [View all]Raksha
(7,167 posts)I also feel vindicated, since you clearly knew about Stepan Bandera before you read the flyer, and I didn't.
Re Only the deranged minds of illiterate neonazi freaks would even warp into that bizarre conspiracy angle but it makes for great propaganda and scaremongering. Everyone except neonazi conspiracy freaks knows that Jewish leaders in no way supported that Jew-killing swine Stepan Bandera the National Hero of the Ukrainian rightwing who was being honored at the rally our neocon McCain addresses. Jews were fighting Bandera and his butchers with every breath in their bodies.
I had never heard the name before, and the first article I read had only a few sentences in the way of background. So I could not speak with the same authority that you did when I needed to. But just knowing he was a WWII Nazi collaborator who was responsible for the murder of thousands of Jews and Poles in pursuit of an "ethnically pure" Ukraine was enough to tell me there was NO WAY the Ukrainian Jews could have supported the fascists who consider him a hero.
Even if I didn't know of Bandera's reputation...THEY DID!