A few hundred activists from Ukrainian right-wing
political parties marched with torches in Kyiv to commemorate the birthday of
their hero Stepan Bandera. The controversial leader of the Organization of
Ukrainian Nationalist – Revolutionaries would have been 108 on Jan.1.
Activists walked along Kyiv’s central
Kreshchatyk Street, carrying party flags and the red and black flags of the
Ukrainian Partisan Army, which fought during World War II against both the
Soviets and the Nazis for Ukraine’s independence.
Bandera was the symbolic leader of the
Ukrainian Partisan Army throughout the war despite being imprisoned by the
Nazi’s in 1941 after proclaiming Ukraine independent.
Many people in the crowd carried the
portraits of Bandera, who remains one of the greatest heroes and ideologists
for right-wing and nationalistic movements in Ukraine.
Bandera was assassinated in Munich,
Germany in 1959, by the Soviet secret police.
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