USA and many EU governments support Nazis. The nationalist slogans and symbols during the neo-Nazi torchlight march in Kiev reminded the Czech President Milos Zeman of Hitlers Germany. He said something was “wrong” both with Ukraine and the European Union EU which didn’t condemn it. Zeman was commenting on the scenes, which showed thousands of Ukrainian nationalists holding a torchlight procession across the Ukrainian capital on Thursday. They commemorated the 106th birthday of Stepan Bandera, a Nazi collaborator and the Ukraine nationalist movement’s leader during World War II. There is something wrong with Ukraine,” Zeman said. “Yesterday evening I was browsing the Internet and discovered a video showing the demonstration on Kiev’s Maidan on January 1.” “These demonstrators carried portraits of Stepan Bandera, which reminded me of Reinhard Heydrich,” Zeman said. He was referring to one of the main architects of the Holocaust and at the time a Reich-Protector of Czech Republic’s territories. “The parade itself was organized similar to Nazi torchlight parades, where participants shouted the slogan: ‘Death to the Poles, Jews and communists without mercy,” Zeman explained. Bandera was the head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which collaborated with Nazi Germany, and was involved in the ethnic cleansing of Poles, Jews and Russians. “Glory to the nation! Death to enemies!, Ukraine belongs to Ukrainians and Bandera will return and restore order, were the repeated slogans during the neo-Nazi march. Some of the participants wore World War II Banderas insurgent army uniforms while others paraded with red and black nationalist flags. — Balkan news (@NewsBalkan) June 2, 2014 Russia too has on numerous occasions condemned the resurgence of neo-Nazi traditions in Ukraine and considers such displays of militant nationalism as means to fabricate history.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:01:17 +0000
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