Thousands March In Kiev Rally To Honour ‘Hitler’s Accomplice’ [View all]
Source: Agence France-Presse
AFP
January 03, 2015 12:00AM
THOUSANDS of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight procession across Kiev yesterday in honour of a 1940s anti-Soviet insurgent branded by Moscow as a Nazi collaborator.
The march on what would have been Stepan Bandera’s 106th birthday moved along the same streets on which hundreds of thousands rallied for three months last winter before ousting a Moscow-backed president.
Some wore World War II-era army uniforms while others draped themselves in the red and black nationalist flags and chanted “Ukraine belongs to Ukrainians” and “Bandera will return and restore order”.
Bandera is an immensely divisive figure in Ukraine whom some compare to Cuba’s Che Guevara. His movement’s slogan — “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!” — was also the catchphrase of last year’s pro-European revolt. Russian President Vladimir Putin in March called that uprising’s leaders “the ideological heirs of Bandera, Hitler’s accomplice during World War II”.
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