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<text>
<title>
Rising Ukrainian Nationalism Attacked
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service, June 17, 1991
Regional Affairs: Rising Ukrainian Nationalism Attacked
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<p> [Editorial Report] Moscow PRAVDA in Russian 13 June 1991
Second Edition carries on page 6 under the headline "Ukrainian
Nationalists Try to Conjure Up the Ghost of the Butchers" an
1,800-word feature on Ukrainian nationalists by its
correspondent V. Drozd, which begins as follows:
</p>
<p> "Lvov--Last year the All-Ukrainian Rukh Assembly
rehabilitated the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-
Ukrainian Insurgent Army [OUN-UPA] and elevated its leaders to
the rank of heroes. People were persistently told that this
organization had fought for the Ukraine's independence. But
those behind this orgy of hypocrisy do not want people to
remember something else--the fact that its leaders were very
closely associated with Hitler's intelligence service and
enjoyed its all-around support, and that, in return for Hitler's
gift of 'Ukrainian statehood,' the OUN-UPA ringleaders pledged
to fight with the 'Allied German Army' against Moscow's
occupation and for a 'Sovereign Assembly State and a new
approach worldwide.' But there are documents. Let them speak."
</p>
<p> This introduction is followed by extracts from postwar trial
testimonies alleging that the OUN was responsible for thousands
of killings during the war and for a series of murders in 1948.
Drozd concludes:
</p>
<p> "These documents being published today need no particular
commentary. They speak for themselves and show the Bandera
group's cruel and bloody struggle against Soviet power in the
Ukraine and against their own people. And any attempts to
whitewash or justify the dark deeds of the OUN leaders and Nazi
special service agents look blasphemous against the background
of these documents.
</p>
<p> "But there have been many such attempts, particularly
recently. There have been increasingly frequent cases of
monuments being set up to the 'fighters for the right.' This
month it is planned to hold an 'international scientific
conference' on the history of the Bandera gangs with the
participation of OUN members who decamped abroad after the war.
These and other facts force us all to think about the threat
posed by unbridled nationalism. Do some people really want to
reopen the way to violence and bloody crimes?
</p>
<p> "...On monuments erected in the western oblasts of the
Ukraine, the list of people who failed to return from the Great
Patriotic War often includes more people who were killed by the
OUN-UPA than frontline troops. Some people are now trying to
get rid of this evidence of bloody atrocities: They are
removing inscriptions, renaming streets and squares, and
committing acts of vandalism against monuments...These attempts
are in vain. Memories cannot be erased. Much less the Bandera
people's crimes..."
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