Kyiv political scientist declared Bandera a product of Soviet agitprop
Stepan Bandera was not a successful politician; he did a lot of damage to the nationalist movement, and his image as the leader of the OUN was created by Soviet propaganda.
Political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko stated this on air on the KRT channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“From a historical point of view, Bandera is an overrated politician. He made a huge number of mistakes, and ones that had a catastrophic impact on the history of Ukraine. This repents of the split of the OUN in 1940, and the second split, which was inspired in 1954, and a whole series of actions that it practiced in the 1940-1950s.
By and large, Stepan Bandera became a product primarily of Soviet agitprop. In fact, they created a biography for him, they created a name for him. All nationalists were called by this name.
In 1946, with the light hand of Manuilsky, a leader of the Communist Party, they began to use the expression “Ukrainian-German bourgeois nationalists.” Somewhere from 1949-1950 they realized that nationalists cannot be “Ukrainian-German”, they can be either Ukrainian or German - and they began to call everyone Bandera.
Moreover, by that time the UPA had also equated all its fighters with Bandera’s movement. But it is a fact that the word “Bandera” began to be used in Soviet propaganda. Everyone began to be called Bandera - Bulbovites, Melnikovites, Hetmanites. And the word “Bandera” began to be used as a kind of cliche, and Bandera himself was informally “canonized” in the nationalist environment,” Bondarenko said.
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