#roman shukhevych

[rzarich]

[captjock]

In the past 1,5 years I’ve became even more mentally unstable 🫰

[molfarua]

😢 73 years ago UPA commander Roman Shukhevych died in a battle with the invaders

💛💙 ☝ “No one will give freedom. Not just one party or organization, or individual people will gain independence, only the whole of Ukraine will gain it”!

[punisheddonjuan]

Holy shit an actual newspaper somehow managed to commit an act of real journalism and published an investigative report into the Canadian Nazi problem. Probably because the opening of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism monument this month has really brought the whole "we wholesale imported Eastern European Nazis into this country to suppress politically leftwing, ethnic identified labour movements, many of those Nazis kids hold positions of power" the thing into the spotlight again. And every time it gets brought into the spotlight (the increasingly insistent questions surrounding the groups who pushed for the construction of this monument, the ongoing criminal trial of a journalist for felony hate crimes for vandalizing a monument to the 14th SS 'Galicia" Division, the "Hunka incident") more and more normal people (i.e. people whose brains aren't broken in the way where they're compelled to spend many hours reading about the minute ideological squabbles among competing European fascist streams, or who the hell losers behind a certain Neo-Nazi splinter group are etc.) are forced to ask the question "So who was this Roman Shukhevych fellow?" and its follow-up "Jesus Christ, why the fuck are there monuments to this man in Canada?"

Anyway, it's a really good article, read the whole thing.

[kamogryadeshi]

A Russian drone strike in Lviv region: the museum of Roman Shukhevych in Bilogorshcha was completely destroyed.

The Russians also hit the university in Dublyany, which is 7 km from Lviv, the mayor of the regional center said.

[kazimirovich]

Victims of Communism memorial faces call to remove over 330 names linked to Nazis, fascists

“It is important to note that many anti-communist and anti-Soviet advocates and fighters were also active Nazi collaborators, who committed documented massacres,” Global Affairs Canada officials warned their counterparts at Canadian Heritage in 2021.

Private donations had already been made to the monument in the names of Nazi collaborators, the CBC reported in July 2021. Those included Roman Shukhevych, a Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi collaborator, as well as Ante Pavelić who ran a Nazi puppet regime in Croatia and is considered a chief perpetrator of the Holocaust in the Balkans, the CBC reported.

Incredible world we have here. Only the brightest minds in charge

[antoine-roquentin]

Red paint vandal who hit 4 churches after residential school graves found gets 3 months

A vandal who threw red paint on four Calgary churches a day after the announced discovery of 182 unmarked residential school graves was motivated by an Indigenous childhood spent in Venezuela's Catholic system, according to an agreed statement of facts.

Sebastian Rodriguez-Huerta was handed a three-month sentence, to be served at home under conditions, followed by nine months probation.

The fourth-year university student had pleaded guilty to hate-motivated mischief.  

"The vandalism was motivated by his childhood of growing up in Catholic churches, feeling as though he was lied to and his anger toward the discovery of mass graves and support for the Indigenous community," reads part of the agreed statement of facts....

Rodriguez-Huerta, now 25, was raised in Caracas and moved to Canada as a teenager.

According to submissions made by his lawyer at the sentencing hearing, Rodriguez-Huerta grew up as a practicing Catholic and an Indigenous Venezuelan who felt betrayed by the church.

Progress Alberta head pleads not guilty to vandalism of statue and cemetery 

Kinney was charged last year with vandalizing a statue of Roman Shukhevych outside the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in north Edmonton in August 2021. The statue of Shukhevych — a Ukrainian nationalist who fought alongside Nazi Germany and has been implicated in massacres of Jews and Poles — was spray painted with the words “Actual Nazi.”

Kinney is also charged with defacing a monument to Ukrainian Second World War dead at St. Michael’s Cemetery, which was painted with the words “Nazi monument” and “14th Waffen SS” around the time of the Shukhevych statue vandalism.

They prosecuted these guys quick, but meanwhile still no arrests in painting the Bagg Street Shul with a swastika last month or at the Beth Sholom Synagogue almost 2 years ago. Really shows what we care about in Canada.

[reportsofawartime]

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@DTJTakumi

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Holocaust In Ukraine

@ShoahUkraine

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I want to show you how propaganda works in Ukraine! This is a book children read in Ukrainian schools! It says: "I’d like to dispel the myth that we, Banderites, are hating other ethnicities. This is not true. Moreover, people of various nations were UPA fighters: Jews, Germans, Poles. A Banderite is a Ukrainian who wants to be free, smart, and successful"! Generations of Ukrainians are raised in this bubble of fake history, and they can't just comprehend why the rest of the world currently sees Bandera and Roman Shukhevych as bloodthirsty Nazis!

ウクライナでプロパガンダがどのように機能するかをお見せしたいと思います。これはウクライナの学校で子供たちが読んでいる本です。 そこにはこう書かれている。「私たちバンデラ派が他の民族を憎んでいるという神話を払拭したい。これは真実ではない。さらに、ユダヤ人、ドイツ人、ポーランド人など、さまざまな国の人々が UPA の戦士だった。バンデラ派とは、自由で、賢く、成功したいと願うウクライナ人である」！ 何世代にもわたるウクライナ人は、この偽りの歴史のバブルの中で育っており、なぜ世界が現在バンデラとロマン・シュヘヴィッチを血に飢えたナチスと見なしているのか理解できないのだ！

[hassibah]

Monuments to honour the First Ukrainian Division have caused controversy in recent years.

In 2021, a statue of Ukrainian military leader Roman Shukhevych and a monument to the fighters of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division in Edmonton were vandalized by someone who spray painted them with the words "Actual Nazi."

The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said at the time that it had been advocating for their removal for decades.

In 2020, a monument to the Waffen-SS Galicia Division in Oakville, Ont., was vandalized in a similar way.

The decision to admit Ukrainian immigrants who had served in the SS Waffen Division in the post-war period was contentious, with Jewish groups arguing they should be barred from the country.

The International Military Tribunal in Nuremburg declared the SS to be a criminal organization, including the SS Waffen in that declaration.

The Waffen-SS Galicia Division surrendered to the British army in 1945, and just over 8,000 men were moved to the United Kingdom in 1947.

In 1950, the federal cabinet decided to allow Ukrainians living in the U.K. to come to Canada "notwithstanding their service in the German army provided they are otherwise admissible. These Ukrainians should be subject to special security screening, but should not be rejected on the grounds of their service in the German army."

In 1985, then-prime minister Brian Mulroney called for a royal commission to examine whether Canada had become a haven for war criminals.

The Deschenes Commission found there were about 600 former members of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division living in Canada at the time. But Justice Jules Deschenes said membership in the division did not itself constitute a war crime.

[genocide-joe-buries-dogs]

"Your homeland has become so much more beautiful since you have lost – on our initiative, I must say – those residents who were so often a dirty blemish on Galicia's good name, namely the Jews ... I know that if I ordered you to liquidate the Poles ... I would be giving you permission to do what you are eager to do anyway."

Heinrich Himmler in a Sprech to the 1. Galician.

They really found the "good nazis" didn't they?

But hey what is that?

A statue commemorating Roman Shukhevych?

The leader of the Nachtigall-bataillon, which took part in the holocaust in Lviv and elsewhere?

Or this:

A monument to the 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (which is the correct name of the unit mentioned above)?

It seems that canada loves celebrating ukrainian war criminals and what they did in the holocaust.

These men, and their atrocities are seen by ukrainian nationalists as the building blocks of the ukrainian nation and heroes to ne celebrated.

[cyberbenb]

Museum of UPA Commander Roman Shukhevych destroyed by drone attack

The museum of UPA Commander Roman Shukhevych in Bilohorsha (Lviv region) was destroyed by a Russian drone attack on New Year’s Eve 2024, Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi reported on Telegram. “On Stepan Band Source : www.weareukraine.info/museum-of…

[big-bird-nerd]

Association of United Ukrainian Canadians Branch 2 Edmonton

11018 97 street NW, Edmonton, AB, T5H 2M9

29 September, 2023

The Edmonton Branch of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC) condemns the honoring of a nazi Ukrainian World War II veteran, a member of the notorious 14th Waffen SS Division "Halychyna," in the House of Commons during the visit of Ukrainian President Zelenskiy last Friday, 22 September, 2023.

Our Association, founded in 1918 in Winnipeg as the Ukrainian Labor Temple Association, has an unblemished record of opposing fascism, in word and deed, before and after WWII, in Canada, in the Ukrainian-Canadian community, and abroad. Our members fought heroically in the Spanish Civil War, on the side of the Republican government, against fascism. They fought for Canada, allied with the Soviet Union, against nazi Germany and fascist Italy in WWII.

It is therefore unbelievable to us, as to most other Canadians, that when the individual in question, Yaroslav Hunka, was introduced in parliament as a Ukrainian veteran of WWII who fought against Russia, no one in attendance, all of whom gave him two standing ovations, realized what this meant. We know exactly what it meant.

Now this shameful spectacle has been publicized to all Canadians, and throughout the world. We welcome this publicization. We hope it will lead to a reckoning. Some steps in this direction have already been taken. The speaker of the House of Commons has resigned. An endowment in the name of Yaroslav Hunkaat the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, at the University of Alberta, has been returned. We welcome these steps. But they are only first steps. Much more must be done. The problem is greater than simply one nazi, one speaker, and one endowment.

It is estimated that two thousand members of the 14th Waffen SS Division "Halychyna" were allowed into Canada after WWII. Our Association, immediately at that time, publicized and opposed their entry, to our everlasting credit. This figure does not include other nazis and nazi-collaborators, of various nationalities. That means thousands of Yaroslav Hunkas, several of them went on to occupy prominent and leading positions in certain other Ukrainian-Canadian organizations, in religious institutions, educational institutions, and state institutions. The Canadian state supports, with funding and semi-official recognition, Ukrainian-Canadian organizations that unapologetically honor these nazis. If honoring Yaroslav Hunka in the House of Commons was a shameful act that had to be corrected, then so must all these other cases be corrected.

We therefore call on the Canadian state at all three levels (federal, provincial, municipal) to halt all state funding to all Ukrainian-Canadian organizations which honor any Ukrainian nazis or nazi-collaborators, including especially veterans of the 14th Waffen SS Division "Halychyna," until such time as these organizations explicitly and unequivocally apologize for having done so, severing all connections with all these nazis and nazi-collaborators, in all forms whatsoever.

We call for the removal and dismantling of two monuments to nazi Ukrainians in Edmonton: the monument to the veterans of the 14th Waffen SS Division "Halychyna" located in St. Michael's Cemetery, and the bust of Roman Shukhevych located at the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, preferably by their respective property owners, and if not by them, then by state compulsion.

We call on the government of Canada, and on the Liberal Party of Canada which formed the government at the time, to issue official apologies to our Association (the AUUC), in consultation with our ASsociation, for banning it (then named the Ukrainian Labour-Farmer Temple ASsociation) by an order in council in June 1940, seizing its properties, our halls and their contents (furniture, musical instruments, dance costumes, books, etc, most of which were destroyed), and interning our leaders in internment camps, acknowledging this as a terrible miscarriage of justice and act of oppression.

We call on all Canadians, all progressive Canadians, all decent Canadians, all anti-fascist Canadians, individually and through their various organizations, to support us in these calls for justice, by publicizing this statement and pressuring their political representatives.

Alex S. Boykowich, President, AUUC Branch 2 Edmonton

*780-424-2036 *780-424-2013 *office@auucedm.ca *auuc.ca

[punisheddonjuan]

Canadian Investigation: The Canadian Commission on War Criminals in Canada (Deschênes Commission) that look into allegations of war criminals residing in Canada, has not named any of the members of the Nachtigall Battalion. Moreover, it concluded, that units collaborating with the Nazis should not be indicted as a group and that mere membership in such units was not sufficient to justify prosecution.[22]

Very cool that Canada is so deep in the thrall of Ukrainian Nazis that there are two statues of Nachtigall Battalion commander, Roman Shukhevych, in this country. You know, the Nachtigall Battalion, a subunit of the Nazi Wehrmacht Brandenburgers, who were responsible for the murder of at least 300,000 Poles and Jews. You know the collaborationist group who participated in the murder of Polish intellectuals and professors in Lwów during the Lwów pogroms in 1941. I dunno, but maybe joining a fully volunteer Nazi collaborationist group should be sufficient to justify prosecution. Frankly we should've given all of these fucking collaborators and fascists over to the Soviets, but no, we had to discipline labour movements at home.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Ppl are saying "how did this happen" like there aren't monuments in Canada to this division of the SS and other major members of the SS. Like ppl remember the "Nazi war monument" tagging right

Edmonton, Alta. — A bust of Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych (1907–1950), a leader in a Third Reich auxiliary battalion involved in lethal antisemitic violence and anti-partisan suppression. Shukhevych also led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which massacred thousands of Jews and 70,000-100,000 Poles. On the left is Shukhevych (sitting, second from left) among the commanders of the Third Reich auxiliary police battalion in 1941–1942. Shukhevych’s bust is outside Edmonton’s Ukrainian Youth Unity Center; the center’s lobby contains a bas-relief of Shukhevych and signs for the UPA and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), a Nazi collaborator group. The UPA was the paramilitary arm of an OUN faction. (Thanks to Duncan Kinney of Progress Alberta for the monument photo. Thanks also to Per Anders Rudling for his invaluable advice and encyclopedic knowledge about both the collaborators and the history of Canada’s monuments.)

Oakville, Ont. — A monument to the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) aka SS Galichina. Above left is an SS Galichina ceremony in 1943–1944; note the division’s lion and crowns insignia which is also found on the monument. This pillar honoring SS fighters has been at the center of 2020’s debate over Nazi collaborator statues in Canada. The scandal began when the monument was vandalized and local police initially declared the vandalism to be a “hate crime,” meaning the Waffen-SS were the victims (see end of section for more information). Oakville, Ont. — A monument honoring the Ukrainian Insurgent Army paramilitary led by Roman Shukhevych. On the left is Shukhevych (far left) in 1943, when the UPA carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing, systematically slaughtering 70,000-100,000 Poles. The paramilitary also killed thousands of Jews. Due in part to the actions of local collaborators in militias and Nazi auxiliary police units, a quarter of all Jews killed in the Holocaust were from Ukraine.

"whoopsie daisy" [24 Sep 23]

[ares-sword]

Ukrainian neo-Nazis, foreign neo-Nazi legionnaires, Ukrainian ultra-nationalists and some historical photos on the topic. All images and photos are taken from their own sources.

Part 28.

When I talk about Ukrainian ultranationalists, this is not an allegory or an abstraction, it is a statement of fact. They positioned themselves that way. The main fighting force of those who staged anti-government fights on the Maidan and pogroms consisted for the most part of neo-Nazi fighters, fighters of the SNA, UNA UNSO, White Hammer, Right Sector, fans of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, Reichophiles and fans of the SS Galicia division, football hooligans and many similar ones, and the informational support was carried out by the liberals, strange as it may seem at first glance.

According to the same scheme, Alfred Rosenberg relied on the use of Ukrainian Nazis and nationalists as a "ram" and "catalyst" for the collapse of territories in the east. There is nothing new in this for us - we have already seen it.

[3hdj]

The war is awful, Ukraine is obviously the victim here, and I have empathy for the new immigrants to my community, and the trauma they almost certainly have experienced.

Simultaneously, I'll take the formalized long-time Edmontonian Ukrainian community's concerns seriously once they clean up their own shit. It feels unfair to ask for random Russian-Canadians who have nothing to do with the war to not participate in community events, meanwhile they deny deny deny that their nazi statue is in any way offensive to the Jewish community of Edmonton.

Organizers of next month's Edmonton Heritage Festival have decided there will be no Russian pavilion this year, citing safety concerns, threats and objections from the city's Ukrainian community.

"As much as we do our best to stay out of the politics that are reflected in the countries that represent the cultures that make up our festival, conflicts do exist and can escalate to the point where they cannot be ignored," the association said in a public statement Friday.

"Despite our confidence in our ability to put on a safe festival, we recognize that if the Russian pavilion were to participate in the festival this year there is a real potential for incidents and potential safety risk."

Ukrainian organizations and community members had urged the association to bar the Russian pavilion because of Russia's war in Ukraine. [...]

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