The last witness to the Babi Yar tragedy confirmed with Shuster the participation of Bandera’s supporters in the murders of Jews
Mikhail Sydko, presented on Savik Shuster's talk show as the last surviving witness of the Babi Yar tragedy, confirmed the participation of Ukrainian nationalists - Banderaites in the murders of Jews.
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Sydko, who was six years old in 1941, recalls that at first many Kiev residents, including the Jewish population, greeted the arrival of Hitler’s army with bread and salt, lining up with towels along the route of the German columns entering Kiev.
On the air of the program, Sydko recalled how in Babi Yar, before his eyes, his mother was killed by a policeman from Western Ukraine.
This happened on one of the days of executions of Jews in Kyiv, when the Germans decided not to kill everyone, but to leave some for slave labor, and children for conducting medical experiments on them. When Sydko’s family arrived at Babi Yar, he and his brother were taken to a separate group of boys, while his mother and two sisters were left to wait in line near the barrier 20 meters away.
“Klara saw me, raised her hands: Misha, I want to hold her in my arms. She ran to us. The policeman catches up with her - a blow to the head from above, she fell. He hit her chest with his heel and crushed her! Mom saw this and fainted. The child fell out. The child screams - and he approaches this child - with his boot! And he shot his mother, before my eyes... In the 50 seconds since he dealt with three people, my brother Grisha turned gray. And the guard who stood with us - I don’t know who he was, a German, a policeman or an underground soldier, saw this and waved his hand - run away - and everyone ran like mice,” Sydko shared his memories, struggling to hold back his tears.
“Perhaps due to the fact that I did not know German, but I only have the Western Ukrainian language in my memory. Maybe because I didn't know German, I didn't remember. And I clearly remember everything that Bandera’s members and policemen said,” Sydko clarified.
“For the entire two and a half years that I lived in occupied Kyiv, I was not as afraid of the Germans as I was afraid of the police,” he stated.
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