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"Mr. Skubik's Ukrainian underground contact, Stepan Bandera, was himself assassinated by the KGB in 1959."

Your continued support and heralding of Stepan Bandera is quite telling - after all Bandera collaborated with the NAZIS and the Nazis were the enemy of the US, ergo, you are supporting an enemy of the United States of America. Treasonous, if you ask me.

Let's take a look at Bandera and his followers:

Western Ukrainian Nazi Collaboration:

a.) Roman Shukhevych: He was the commander of the Nachtigall Battalion. This battalion was comprised of Ukrainian nationalists wearing the German uniform. Shukhevych was a cohort of Stepan Bandera. It was this battalion that occupied Lvov in 1941 and took part in a three-day massacre of Poles and Jews living in the region. Shukhevych was rewarded by Bandera in 1943, when Bandera named him commander of his Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

At the present time, Bandera supporters try to walk the revisionist tightrope of saying, "sure, he HAD to cooperate with the Germans (they don't say Nazis - interesting) because they would help him fight the Soviets, and Bandera, also fought the Germans (not really). Bandera supporters try to validate this claim by saying the Germans put him in a concentration camp - yes, this is true, but, just like other Nazis who didn't completely toe the line, he was arrested. It is the equivalent of Beria's grandson saying Beria too was a victim of the Soviets. Bottom line- Bandera was put in control of Western Ukraine BY the NAZIS and was removed when he didn't follow their orders completely (that by no means makes him some sort of "martyr."

b.) 14th Ukrainian Waffen SS Galizien Division (also known as the Halychyna Division). This was created in May 1943. Kubijovych, who was the head of the Nazi-authorized Ukrainian Central Committee, declared:

`The long-awaited moment has arrived when the Ukrainian people again have the opportunity to come out with guns to give battle with its most grievous foe --- Muscovite--Jewish Bolshevism. The Fuehrer of the Great German Reich has agreed to the formation of a separate Ukrainian volunteer military unit.'

Certainly not the words of a Nazi-foe.

c.) U.S. Department of Justice Official makes a statement on Ukrainian Nazi ties:
According to this official, the CIC (U.S. Counter-Intelligence Corps) had an agent who photographed eleven volumes of the secret internal files of OUN--Bandera. These files clearly showed how most of its members worked for the Gestapo or SS as policemen, executioners, partisan hunters and municipal officials."

These are the same men Ukrainian emigres in the US are calling "patriots."

Present day Banderovtsy (men who support Bandera and invoke his name) living in Ukraine and in the US:

Ukraine:

"The leader of the All-Ukrainian Party "Liberty," Oleh Tyahnybok, was expelled from the Our Ukraine parliamentary faction on July 20. Tyahnybok was excluded after giving an anti-Russian, anti-Semitic speech at the gravesite of a commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a guerrilla group that fought the Nazis and Soviets in the 1940s.

Tyahnybok praised how the UPA allegedly fought Moskali (an offensive term for Russians), Germans, and Jews who wanted to take away our "Ukrainian state" (Ukrayinska pravda, July 21). "There is a need for Ukraine to be finally returned to Ukrainians" from the "Muscovite-Jewish mafia that runs Ukraine today," he declared. His comments were widely circulated on the three TV channels controlled by the head of the Presidential Administration, Viktor Medvedchuk: State Channel 1, 1+1 and Inter (July 22)."

And in the US:

The KUN was founded in 1992 as the political exile organization of the "Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Stepan Bandera fraction." The followers of Bandera espouse a fascist ideology and a militantly anti-communist, anti-Russian and anti-Polish policy. Bandera's movement fought in the Second World War initially on the side of Nazi Germany against the Soviets and demanded "independence" for the Ukraine in those regions invaded by the German army.

Following the conquest of Ukraine, the Nazis no longer needed the assistance of "Slavic sub-humans." They rejected independence for Ukraine and began to persecute Ukrainian nationalists. The Bandera faction was forced to oppose the German army, but during and after the war it focused its activities against the Soviet army.

This is the tradition which the KUN represents. Until the end of the 1990s, it maintained a paramilitary organization named Tryzub, which carried out its activities in the name of the "Stepan Bandera Sports Patriotic Association."

The only thing that organization gets right is the "anti-communist" part. Tell us, Spanalot, how long have you been a member of KUN? And when are your Tryzub meetings?
How is that 5th Column coming along?