Marches on the occasion of birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera in Ukraine – Polish Radio

Approximately one and a half thousand supporters of the nationalist party Freedom and Right Sector took part in a march organized in Kiev. The demonstrators gathered in front of the monument to Taras Shevchenko, and then passed through the center of Kiev on the Maidan Independence. At the rally lit torches, Ukraine and the anthem was sung cries were erected in honor of Stepan Bandera.
Leader Oleh Tyahnybok Swoboda said, referring to the Bandera indications that “with Moscow can not get along, with Moscow does not have anything to talk about.” – No matter what in Moscow ruled by power, they will always be treated as a supplement Ukraine to Russia, and the Ukrainians will want to make slaves R 11; he said.
The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Iljenko Freedom party declared that ” participants of memory demand that all fighters for freedom of Ukraine, especially Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych (commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army), were officially recognized by the State as national heroes. “
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Stepan Bandera was the leader of one of the factions of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), whose armed wing, the UPA, is responsible for the run of the spring of 1943 ethnic cleansing against the Polish population in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. As an activist, then leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement in interwar Poland, Bandera was an organizer of terrorist actions against the Polish state and the Soviet Union, including attacks in 1933 on the Soviet consulate in Lviv, and in 1934 to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland Bronisław Pieracki II.
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coup on Pieracki was sentenced to death, commuted to life in prison then. Was freed after the fall of the Second Republic. 30 June 1941 in Lviv, Bandera announced the creation of an independent Ukrainian state, for which in July 1941 he was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in a camp in Sachsenhausen. He stayed there until September 1944 year. After World War II he settled in Munich under the assumed name of Stephen Popiel. In October 1959, he was assassinated by a KGB agent Bohdan Staszyńskiego.
In 2010, Stepan Bandera awarded the posthumous title of Hero of Ukraine. He gave it to him a special decree of the outgoing President Viktor Yushchenko. The decree was finally quashed by the court. The granting of the title of Hero of Ukraine Bandera provoked opposition in Russia and Poland.
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Marches on the occasion of birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera in Ukraine – Polish Radio