Ukrainians celebrate the birthday of WWII Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, Chant 'Jews out'. (TOI).
Ukrainian nationalists in Kiev chanted “Jews out” in German at a New
Year’s Day march celebrating the birthday of a Nazi collaborator whose
troops killed thousands of Jews.
Thousands attended the event in the center of the Ukrainian capital
celebrating Stepan Bandera, a leader of Ukraine’s nationalist movement
in the 1930s and ’40s. They held up his portrait while an unidentified
person shouted the anti-Semitic slogan on a loudspeaker, prompting many
participants to repeat it, a video published by the Federal News Agency
showed.
Oleksandr Feldman, a Ukrainian Jewish lawmaker and president of the
Ukrainian Jewish Committee, called on authorities to investigate the
march and prosecute those responsible for the hateful slogans.
Feldman also accused the Svoboda party, a far-right movement whose
leaders and followers often have engaged in anti-Semitic hate speech, of
being responsible for what he termed “a provocation” during the march. Read the full story here.
Two Polish Seim commissions recognize Volhynia atrocity genocide of Polish population by Ukrainian nationalists. (Tass).
Two commissions (for links with the Poles and for culture and media) of the Polish Seim on Tuesday adopted a resolution recognizing genocide the atrocity committed by Ukrainian nationalists against the Poles in Volhynia, a region in the northwest corner of Ukraine, in 1943-1944 during WWII.
"We establish July 11 as an official day of mourning dedicated to the victims of genocide carried out by Ukrainian nationalists against the citizens of the [interwar] Second Polish Republic," the draft resolution said.
"The genocide carried out in 1943-1945 claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people, predominantly peasants. Their exact number is unknown. Many of them have not been buried with dignity until today," the draft said.
"The memory of the victims of those crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists 40 years ago has never been perpetuated and the mass killings have not been recognized genocide to match the historical truth," the resolution’s text stressed.
The Polish deputies also remembers the reprisals, which the Poles committed in retaliation in Ukrainian villages. "Remembering the crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists, we cannot keep silent about Polish retaliatory actions in Ukrainian villages which also claimed civilian lives," the document said. The Polish deputies expressed their gratitude to those Ukrainians who risked their lives to help the Poles. They suggested that the Polish president decorate them with state awards.
The deputies added a clause urging to establish and mark the places of fratricidal crimes and bury the remains of all the victims, if such are found, with dignity as well as to draw up the victims’ full list.
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) is an ultra-right political organization (banned in Russia) which operated predominantly in the territory of Western Ukraine during WWII.
In collaboration with German reconnaissance bodies, OUN fought against the Soviet rule. In February 1943, Ukrainian nationalists started mass extermination of the Polish population of Volhynia. The campaign reached its peak in July-August 1943. On July 11, 1943, the units of OUN - UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) attacked about 100 Polish populated localities and killed about 100,000 Poles, mainly women, children and old people.
The killings’ main purpose was to cleanse the territory of a future Ukrainian state from all non-Ukrainians.Read the full story here.
Russian TV host says Jews “brought the Holocaust on” themselves.(EuroMaidan).
“Russia 24” TV Channel host Evelina Zakamska said that the Jews themselves “brought the Holocaust around”.
The remark was made during the interview with a Russian writer Oleksandr Prokhanov.
The participants of the program touched upon the topic of the Euromaidan in Ukraine. In connection to this Prokhanov said on the air: “It’s surprising that Jewish and Russian organizations support Maidan. What are they doing? Don’t they understand that they are bringing around a second Holocaust with their own hands?”
The host responded: “They were bringing around the first one in just the same way”.
