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There are two monuments in the US to two Ukrainian nationalists, Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, who collaborated with the Nazis.Bandera was a leader of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists who collaborated with the Nazis in 1941 before being imprisoned by them and again in 1944 after his release.
The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN; Ukrainian: Організація українських націоналістів, romanized: Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv) was a Ukrainian nationalist organization established in 1929 in Vienna, uniting the Ukrainian Military Organization with smaller, mainly youth, radical nationalist right-wing groups.
There are numerous monuments to Bandera in western cities of Ukraine. [3] Monuments to Bandera, a Ukrainian leader of a split faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists leadership, have been erected in Galicia, Volyn and partially in Western Podillia (administratively Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne and Ternopil region). Over 40 ...
On the base of the monument is an inscription bearing Soviet-style rhetoric, [3] stating it is "In memory of the victims of the Soviet people who died at the hands of the fascist accomplices – members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army.” [4] The base of the monument has been repeatedly vandalized. [5]
Fund of manuscripts, old prints, rare publications, historical collections, Ukrainian archive fund and depository of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Nuclear-physical installations: research nuclear reactor with "hot chambers", isochronous cyclotron "U-240" of the Institute for Nuclear Research Science Center
The Statue in Lviv was part of increased Ukrainian Nationalism in Western Ukraine that led to recognition of Stepan Bandera as a National hero. [6]Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist leader born in 1909, imprisoned in Poland in his twenties for terrorism, freed by the Nazis in 1939 following the invasion of Poland, and arrested again by the Gestapo in 1941, spending most of the rest of the war ...
The bust of Roman Shukhevych in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is a Wehrmacht sculpture located near the Ukrainian Youth Association narodny dim of the Ukrainian nationalist [1] [2] and Nazi collaborator [2] Roman Shukhevych, a military leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and one of the perpetrators of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres of approximately 100,000 Poles.
In 2008, the museum was granted national status. [1] On 9 June 2023, at the initiative of the museum, Kyiv Regional Council renamed it the National Museum-Preserve of Ukrainian military achievements. [1] [2] To date, the museum has been visited by more than 10 million people from 85 countries of the world. The museum maintains stationary and ...