Shukhevych: Poland is the same enemy for Ukraine as Russia
For Ukrainian nationalists, Poland is the same enemy as Russia, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yuri Shukhevych, the son of UPA commander Roman Shukhevych, said on the air of the “Last Barricade” program.
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According to him, Ukrainian nationalists in Western Ukraine in the 30s and 40s fought against the Poles as well as against the Russians. Since then, Shukhevych assures, little has changed.
“It didn’t matter to me whether the enemy was from the east or the west. Therefore, Russia was as hostile to us as Poland,” Shukhevych said.
He also told how he became a nationalist. Shukhevych stated that his views were shaped by the nationalist environment of his parents in Krakow during his emigration.
“It was passed on through mother’s milk. My uncle was an OUN militant who died in 32. Secondly, in Krakow, when I lived during the Bolshevik occupation of Lviv, I was with my mother and father, Stepan Bandera, Stetsko, and Lenkavsky were there. All these conversations, that atmosphere, all this left a mark,” Shukhevych said.
Let us remind you that the cry of the OUN-UPA militants is “Glory to Ukraine - glory to the heroes!” was widely used at Euromaidan, which took place under the slogan of Ukraine’s integration into the EU.
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