Russia Orders Troops Into Eastern Ukraine: What’s Next | WSJ

@I K Bandera was awarded the Hero of Ukraine title in 2010 by Viktor Yushchenko. That preceded Euromaidan by several years.

In any case, Russia has no place to play the victim — the USSR also invaded Poland in collaboration with Nazi Germany and massacred Poles, created a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, committed ethnic cleansing in Ukraine through the forced population transfer of “anti-Soviet” ethnicities like Crimean Tatars, etc. History shows why Russia is paranoid about the West, but history also shows why Eastern Europe is desperate to escape Russia’s influence (i.e. why countries want to join NATO). Don’t try to act like you care about the Poles, because the Poles also suffered under Moscow’s rule and have good reason to be anti-Russia.

Yeah, let’s talk about nazis. In 2014, the new authorities in Ukraine became heavily dominated by Western Ukrainian nationalists. They declared Western Ukrainians, who collaborated with Nazi Germany and served in Nazi German army during WW2, as Ukrainian heroes. They even named a street in Kiev after Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian who served in German Army in WW2 and was in charge of Ukrainian nationalists, who were executing Jewish, Russian, Belarus and Polish civilians. That Stepan Bandera street in Kiev is now adjacent to the place where Ukrainian Nationalists serving German Nazis were executing Jews in WW2. And Stepan Bandera’s birthday has been wildly celebrated all throughout the Ukraine since 2014. Here is what The Times of Israel wrote about this in 2016: “Kiev’s local council decided that one of the bustling city’s main northern arteries will now honor Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera. Bandera was a leader of Ukraine’s nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s, which included an insurgent army that fought alongside Nazi soldiers during part of the Second World War. His group also was involved in the ethnic cleansing that killed tens of thousands of Poles in 1942-44. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists portrayed Russians, Poles, Hungarians and Jews — most of the minorities in western Ukraine — as aliens and encouraged locals to “destroy” Poles and Jews.”

Between 1943 and 1945, led by Stepan Bandera, members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, who officially collaborated with German Nazis, massacred thousands of Poles throughout Wołyń, a region that was in Nazi-occupied Poland and is part of present-day Ukraine. Throughout the period, it is estimated that around 100,000 Polish civilians died at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists. The goal of Ukrainian Nationalists was to purge all non-Ukrainians from a future Ukrainian state. They wanted not only to purge Polish civilians, but also to erase all traces of Polish presence in the area. Native Russians of Donetsk and Lugansk, what you call “Eastern Ukraine,” know that Ukrainian Nationalists from Western Ukraine will eventually organize genocide of Russians just the same way as they organized genocide of Polish population in WW2.

But it never matters to you when Nazis kill Russians. Because to the West, murdering Russians has always been a sport, not murder.

literally when i saw morrisons face. WSJ couldnt find reaction from anywhere else or what? LOL

You’ll be too distracted by the mountain of Russian corpses the Ukrainians will be inflicting upon you to even care…