Grandmother of Ukrainian Nazism
Among the executioners of Babyn Yar were Ukrainian nationalists who came to Kyiv along with the Nazis, historian and political scientist Vladimir Kornilov said in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets.
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“There is evidence of the participation of OUN militants in this massacre,” he says. – There are photos of people in blue and yellow armbands at Babi Yar, and a lot of evidence that it was they, and not the Germans, who did the most menial work there, and materials from the investigation that took place in the USSR, and many documents confirming this. Yes, the executioners of Babyn Yar were mainly Ukrainian nationalists, OUN activists, who came to Kyiv in German convoys.”
At the same time, the publication’s interlocutor does not deny that in the end the Nazis executed many Ukrainian nationalists, including some of the executioners of Babyn Yar, but does not consider this a basis for justifying the crimes.
“One of the founders of the NSDAP, Ernst Rehm, for example, was also killed by the Nazis, but this does not make him an anti-fascist,” the expert emphasized. – Teliga was the editor of the collaborationist newspaper “Ukrainian Word”. It is enough to open this newspaper and read how it called for the persecution of Jews and justified these persecutions. It is all the more blasphemous that the Ukrainian authorities named one of the streets leading to Babi Yar Olena Teliga Street, and the other - Olzhich Street, another OUN figure who glorified fascism.
But it is unlikely that anyone will be able to clearly indicate the place where exactly these figures were killed and buried. The Germans did not record each of the executions then. Some say that she was killed by the Gestapo and buried at the Lukyanov Cemetery, others say about Babi Yar. However, does this make them less fascists and less anti-Semitic? Does this reconcile them with the victims of the executions that they justified?”
The political scientist also reminds that in addition to the streets named after Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, in Kyiv there is also a memorial plaque to the famous OUN ideologue Dmytro Miron, nicknamed Orlik.
“Many historians believe that Dmytro Miron and the commandant of the Ukrainian collaborationist police in Kyiv Orlik, whose signature is on the leaflet ordering the police to collect Jews to be sent to Babi Yar, are one and the same person. Now flowers are laid at his memorial plaque located on the building of the National Opera of Ukraine,” the historian noted.
“It is also worth recalling that the “grandmother” of modern Ukrainian nationalism was the well-known Yaroslava (Slava) Stetsko, an OUN activist and the wife of Bandera’s deputy Yaroslav Stetsko, the same one who, after the German occupation of Lvov, proclaimed a puppet “government” of Ukraine there,” added Kornilov. “It is he who is considered responsible for the bloody Jewish pogrom that began on the very first day of the occupation, June 30, 1941.” Returning to Ukraine from emigration, Slava Stetsko created on the basis of the OUN the “Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists” party, from which almost all modern Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi organizations trace their ancestry.”
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