I don’t like Bandera, but I understand Bandera’s people – Gordon
The leader of the Ukrainian nationalists Stepan Bandera destroyed civilians, and this is bad, but Bandera’s followers fought against the Red Army, and this is good.
Kiev TV presenter Dmitry Gordon, a former deputy of the Kiev City Council from Petro Poroshenko’s party, stated this on the air of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“When people went into the forests and fought against the Red Army, I, whose grandfather was hanged in Kiev in the first days of the war by the Germans who came here (he was the deputy chairman of the Kiev City Executive Committee, a legitimate member of the Communist Party), I understand this.
I understand these people who, under the flag of Bandera, fought against the NKVD and the Red Army. I understand them, so I try very hard to be consistent in my assessments.
Bandera is not my hero for me, I don’t like him, he mocked Jews, he destroyed civilians - I think so, I could be wrong - Poles, Ukrainians, Jews. That’s why I don’t like him – for terrorizing civilians.
But if I were in the place of those Ukrainians to whom the NKVD and the Red Army came, I don’t know how I would behave,” Gordon said.
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