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22. You must have confused your bookmarks
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 11:01 AM
Jan 2015

since the thread behind your link debunks something else, the false claim that a 'rebel commander' said he 'knew' they had Buks when in fact he said the exact opposite.

Here is a short description of what Bandera stands for from another source:

Historian Karel Berkhoff, among others, has shown that Bandera, his deputies, and the Nazis shared a key obsession, namely the notion that the Jews in Ukraine were behind Communism and Stalinist imperialism and must be destroyed. “The Jews of the Soviet Union,” read a Banderist statement, “are the most loyal supporters of the Bolshevik Regime and the vanguard of Muscovite imperialism in the Ukraine.” When the Germans invaded the USSR in June 1941 and captured the East Galician capital of Lvov, Bandera’s lieutenants issued a declaration of independence in his name. They further promised to work closely with Hitler, then helped to launch a pogrom that killed four thousand Lvov Jews in a few days, using weapons ranging from guns to metal poles. “We will lay your heads at Hitler’s feet,” a Banderist pamphlet proclaimed to Ukrainian Jews.

The Germans intended to keep Ukraine for themselves. They arrested Bandera for his intransigence on the issue of independence, but released him in 1944 when it appeared that his popularity with Ukrainians might help stem the Soviet advance. But whatever their disappointment with the Germans, the Banderists never disagreed with their Jewish policy in Ukraine, which eventually killed over 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews.

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/122778

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rt stonecutter357 Jan 2015 #1
+1 uhnope Jan 2015 #3
see my response below newthinking Jan 2015 #12
Neo Nazis are not funny to most people. Though John McCain and sadly, sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #8
+1 KoKo Jan 2015 #14
it's video coverage without commentary. newthinking Jan 2015 #11
Good Points.....n/t KoKo Jan 2015 #15
More like: "Fascists march in Kiev Jan. 2." another_liberal Jan 2015 #2
newthinking... truth2power Jan 2015 #4
Their job is not that difficult. zeemike Jan 2015 #5
+1 nt snappyturtle Jan 2015 #6
Consortium News has already been debunked on DU--sorry uhnope Jan 2015 #7
Too many media consumers lost me with this one, rated Pants On Fire: freshwest Jan 2015 #9
thanks. I will add "Michael Collins" uhnope Jan 2015 #10
And I've added a snarker (not you) to my list. freshwest Jan 2015 #17
nice try - the orange revolution in 2004 - pres we brought to power's wife was an American neo-con newthinking Jan 2015 #13
Good Resource Links there.... KoKo Jan 2015 #16
please spare us the CT. The neocons in Eastern Europe are Putin and his regime uhnope Jan 2015 #18
nothing ct about the republican institute's work and Yushenko's wife's work history newthinking Jan 2015 #20
You might want to rework this post reorg Jan 2015 #21
You must have confused your bookmarks reorg Jan 2015 #22
get a clue. It plainly scoffs at the fake news site's founder uhnope Jan 2015 #23
If by "it" you mean the false Reuters report reorg Jan 2015 #26
what is even more frightening - read up on links to maha ravi newthinking Jan 2015 #19
pretty funny that any Putin defender would complain about something else "semi-messianic" uhnope Jan 2015 #24
swoosh... newthinking Jan 2015 #25
the usual avoidance. Here's more about the semi-messianic Putin worship uhnope Jan 2015 #27
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