Bandera remains a highly controversial figure in Ukraine. [9] Many Ukrainians hail him as a role model hero, [10] [11] or as a martyred liberation fighter, [12] while other Ukrainians, particularly in the south and east, condemn him as a fascist, [13] or Nazi collaborator, [10] whose followers, called Banderites, were responsible for massacres of Polish and Jewish civilians during World War II. [14] [15] On 22 January 2010, Viktor Yushchenko, the then president of Ukraine, awarded Bandera the posthumous title of Hero of Ukraine, which was widely condemned. The award was subsequently annulled in 2011 given that Stepan Bandera was never a Ukrainian citizen. [16] Biography Early life and education Young Bandera in the Plast uniform, 1923

I just don't have the facts on Arafat's mass-killing Arabs just for their ideological or political affiliation, or national origin, but I take you word on it... Furthermore, while the Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem has also attempted to pin the Lviv Massacres on Ukrainians, especially Roman Shukhevych, leader of the Nachtigall batallion and later the anti-Nazi, anti-Soviet Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the head of the Association of Jewish Communities and Organizations of Ukraine, Vaad Yosyp Zisels, asked Yad Vashem for documentary evidence to prove that claim and was unable to obtain it. Marples says that Bandera "regarded Russia as the principal enemy of Ukraine, and showed little tolerance for the other two groups inhabiting Ukrainian ethnic territories, Poles and Jews". [113] In late 1942, when Bandera was in a German concentration camp, his organization, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was involved in a massacre of Poles in Volhynia. In early 1944, ethnic cleansing also spread to Eastern Galicia. It is estimated that more than 35,000 and up to 60,000 Poles, mostly women and children along with unarmed men, were killed during the spring and summer campaign of 1943 in Volhynia, and up to 133,000 if other regions, such as Eastern Galicia, are included. [117] [118] [119]a b c d Timothy Snyder (24 February 2010). "A Fascist Hero in Democratic Kiev". The New York Review of Books. NYR Daily.

There are Stefan Bandera museums in Dubliany, Volia-Zaderevatska, Staryi Uhryniv, and Yahilnytsia. There is a Stepan Bandera Museum of Liberation Struggle in London, part of the OUN Archive, [185] and The Bandera Family Museum ( Музей родини Бандерів) in Stryi. [186] [187] There are also Stepan Bandera streets in Lviv (formerly vulytsia Myru, "Peace street"), Lutsk (formerly Suvorovska street), Rivne (formerly Moskovska street), Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chervonohrad (formerly Nad Buhom street), [188] Berezhany (formerly Cherniakhovskoho street), Drohobych (formerly Sliusarska street), Stryi, Kalush, Kovel, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Horodenka, Dubrovytsia, Kolomyia, Dolyna, Iziaslav, Skole, Shepetivka, Brovary, and Boryspil, and a Stepan Bandera Avenue in Ternopil (part of the former Lenin Avenue). [189] On 16 January 2017, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance stated that of the 51,493 streets, squares and "other facilities" that had been renamed (since 2015) due to decommunization 34 streets were named after Stepan Bandera. [190] Due to "association with the communist totalitarian regime", the Kyiv City Council on 7 July 2016 voted 87 to 10 in favor of supporting renaming Moscow Avenue to Stepan Bandera Avenue. [191] [192] The Poison Pistol". Time. Vol.78, no.22. 1 December 1961. Archived from the original on 6 June 2008. Fatic, Aleksandar; Bachmann, Klaus; Lyubashenko, Igor (26 November 2018). Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies. Rowman & Littlefield. p.192. ISBN 978-1-78660-590-0.made about some obviously insulting to Holocaust memory actions of Latvian and Estonian government officials several years ago (like visiting the graves of Snyder, Timothy (1999). " 'To Resolve the Ukrainian Problem Once and for All': The Ethnic Cleansing of Ukrainians in Poland, 1943–1947". Journal of Cold War Studies. 1 (2): 86–120. doi: 10.1162/15203979952559531. ISSN 1520-3972. JSTOR 26925017. S2CID 57564179.

To preclude your other quite "suggestive" questions I may also tell you that I have never apologized terrorism, the term that to me embraces not just individual terrorists and terrorists groups, but also states that regularly or occasionally used their military to terrorize civilian population along with terrorists/insurgency through so called collective punishment (thus committing a war crime, according to relevant international law.) Umland, Andreas (2017). "The Ukrainian Government's Memory Institute Against the West". IndraStra Global. 3 (3): 7. ISSN 2381-3652. Thus, it has come as no surprise to any shrewd political observer that American puppet, and perhaps, even most precious intelligence "asset" Krivitsky, Walter G. " In Stalin's Secret Service: Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect." On 5 April 2010, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine refused to start constitutional proceedings on the constitutionality of the Yushchenko decree the award was based on. A ruling by the court was submitted by the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on 20 January 2010. [159] In January 2011, under Yanukovych's government, the presidential press service informed that the award was officially annulled. [160] [161] This was done after a cassation appeal filed against the ruling by Donetsk District Administrative Court was rejected by the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine on 12 January 2011. [162] [163] [164] Former president Yushchenko called the annulment "a gross error". [165]Political scientist Andreas Umland wrote in 2017 that issues of remembrance in Ukraine are complicated by its history of existing between and being terrorized by two totalitarian regimes, where millions of Ukrainians were killed but some collaborated, and the extensive exploitation and manipulation of this history by an aggressive neighbor, Russia. According to him, public debate on these issues is also "spoiled" by biased narratives about the OUN and especially Bandera perpetuated by the Kremlin or "Western dilettante commentaries" featuring "frequent factual imprecisions and indiscriminate historical accusations". He wrote that these inaccuracies are deconstructed with "relish" by OUN apologists within Ukraine, and this has perpetuated a view within Ukraine that the Western public is not well informed about recent Ukrainian history, and even brainwashed by Soviet and Russian propaganda. He wrote that research from well regarded universities over the last decade was showing in greater detail where Ukrainians connected to the OUN did, and did not, take part in the Holocaust. [133] 2014 Russian intervention in Ukraine Headquarters of the Euromaidan, Kyiv, January 2014. At the front entrance there is a portrait of Bandera. Friedman, Philip; Friedman, Ada June (1980). Roads to extinction: essays on the Holocaust. Internet Archive. New York: Conference on Jewish Social Studies: Jewish Publication Society of America. p.179. ISBN 978-0-8276-0170-3. After the outbreak of World War II, the Germans constantly favored the OUN, at the expense of more moderate Ukrainian groups. The extremist Ukrainian nationalist groups then launched a campaign of vilification against moderate leaders, accusing them of various misdeeds...As early as the spring of 1940, a central Ukrainian committee was organized in Cracow under the chairmanship of Volodimir Kubiovitch...Shortly before the outbreak of Russo-German hostilities, the Germans, through Colonel Erwin Stolze, of the Abwehr, conducted negotiations with both OUN leaders, Melnyk and Bandera, requesting that they engage in underground activities in the rear of the Soviet armies in the Ukraine. Again, Mr. Green, I cannot imagine that had Russian President officially proclaimed some Jewish hater (not already mentioning mass-murderer of Jews) a Hero of Russia, Israeli officials, many Jewish organizations worldwide and Western leaders along with mass-media would not noisily protest and condemn that act of obvious insult to the memory of victims of anti-semitism.