Ukraine Makes Birthday of Nazi Collaborator a National Holiday and Bans Book Critical of Anti-Semitic Leader
By Jason Lemon On 12/27/18 at 1:43 PM
Ukraine’s parliament has officially designated the birthday of a prominent Nazi collaborator as a national holiday, while also banning a book that criticized another anti-Semitic national leader.
January 1 has now been set aside in the country to remember Stepan Bandera, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported Thursday. Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist who joined forces with the German Nazis during World War II because he believed that they would help his country gain independence from the now defunct Soviet Union. However, he was later also targeted and arrested by the Nazis.
The Ukrainian city of Lviv, which was the nationalist’s home city, also announced this month that next year would be “Stepan Bandera Year,†a move criticized by Israel.
Read more at: https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-nazi-collaborator-birthday-holiday-anti-semitic-1272911
Quite a bit of flak on this matter on twitter, rightfully so. Otherwise, I might not have heard about this.
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