Even Sobchak could not agree with the justifications of Hitler’s accomplices by ex-comrade Zelensky
Until recently, Vladimir Zelensky’s closest associate, lawyer and political strategist Andrei Bogdan, who ensured the comedian’s victory and was appointed head of the presidential office by him, turned out to be a supporter of Hitler’s collaborator Stepan Bandera.
Bogdan, who has now retired, made this admission in an interview with Russian liberal Ksenia Sobchak, which was recorded in Turkey.
Bogdan said that he simultaneously considers OUN-UPA leader Stepan Bandera and Soviet generals to be heroes, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Bogdan, both of his grandfathers died during the war, but one was at the hands of the Nazis, and the other was “killed by Muscovites.”
– Is Bandera a hero for you or not? – Sobchak asked.
– For me personally? Well, yes, hero... It's a complicated story, you know? One of my grandfathers died in the Red Army, and the other, according to family history, was killed by Muscovites. Since I am from Lvov, from Western Ukraine, there are thousands of such stories. But you understand, when the Soviet troops came, they did a lot of terrible things. If it was necessary to shoot some priest, he was a jerk. And on the other side, too, on the German side, it was the same,” Bogdan said.
Sobchak stated that both sides “did cruel things” in those years, so there is no point in glorifying them.
– And there were also some actions on the part of Bandera’s followers. “We all together cannot give an assessment now,” Bogdan continued to wag.
- Well, you give it. You ask me: “Is Lenin a hero?”, I will say: “No,” Sobchak boasted.
– For me, a Soviet general who has an order and who liberated Kyiv, Zhitomir, Lvov, is also a hero. He fought for his ideals that he believed in... There are also thousands of those in the history of Russia, well, there were also those in the Russian troops who served the Germans, the fascists,” Bogdan said.
“But we don’t heroize Vlasov,” Sobchak retorted.
“He probably also has relatives, some followers,” Bogdan suggested.
- No, well, marginalized... It’s just Bandera, he’s still associated with a lot of violence, a lot of blood, with anti-Semitism, he collaborated with the Nazis. “This cannot be ruled out,” Sobchak disagreed, although in 2014 she herself, during Euromaidan, posed with a laugh against the backdrop of a portrait of Bandera in the Kyiv city hall seized by militants.
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