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Party of Regions proposes legal move to strip Bandera of Hero of Ukraine title

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Feb. 17, 2010, 7:32 p.m. | Ukraine — by Interfax-Ukraine
The Party of Regions of Ukraine is determined to secure the adoption of a law banning the rehabilitation and glorification of Nazi collaborationists in 1933-1945, which its authors believe would automatically annul the awarding of the Hero of Ukraine titles to Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych. "It would be very difficult for the new president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, to annul the awarding of the Hero of Ukraine titles to Shukhevych and Bandera for legal grounds. After all, the statute of the Hero of Ukraine award does not stipulate the possibility that a decree on awarding this title can be annulled," said the press service of Vadym Kolesnichenko, a member of the Party of Regions of Ukraine parliamentary faction.

The decision to give the titles of Hero of Ukraine to Shukhevych and Bandera must be annulled, but this should be done "legally impeccably," he said.

Not only is it very difficult to annul presidential decrees, but in this particular case this might lead to bad consequences for more than 300 people awarded with this title, Kolesnichenko said.

On the other hand, if Yanukovych proposes amendments to the award's charter to change the annulment procedure, it will be unable to apply them to the titles already granted, since the law cannot be retroactive, he said.

The only way to resolve the problem, according to Kolesnichenko, would be the adoption of a law banning the rehabilitation and glorification of Nazi collaborators in 1933-1945, which the party has already filed with the parliament.

"The adoption of the law will not only automatically annul President Yuschenko's decrees on awarding Hero of Ukraine titles to Shukhevych and Bandera, as they would go against the law, but it will also provide a groundwork in society for opposing the supporters of radical nationalism and fascism, which have penetrated all branches of government," he said.
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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 7:58 p.m.    

Very very good.

Thank you PoR from Germany !!!

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 5:09 a.m.    

German outside,Moskal inside

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 8:20 p.m.    

moskali already at work

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 8:23 p.m.    

Bandera's memory keeps dragging the skeletons of Moscow's victims out of the closet that Russia does not want the world to see.

Yanukovych knows that sooner or later, responsibility for Holodomor and enslavement of the Ukrainian people will have to be acknowleged by Moscow.

Russian leaders hiding in Kremlin rooms and corrupt Ukrainian leaders, who would strip Bandera of the Hero of Ukraine title, is not going to make Bandera's presence go away anytime soon.

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 9:25 p.m.    

Agree with you 100%

all that yanukovich will be doing during his presidency is the dirty work of the Kremlin.. this has nothing to do with Nazi collabaration. if it was so then the Kremlin as successors to the Ussr are also guilty of collabaration and as you pointed out they do not want the fingers pointed at them.. they are too busy white washing history as they did before.

this is just another part of it.. wait for when the photos and statues of Stalin are all back in Ukraine.. and all on Yanukovich watch.. Putins bum boy

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 9:01 p.m.    

It is a shame to find this Nazi dwarf's picture in every donkey village in the western Ukraine - at least they should show him in his real size - 1, 52 m - at least something to laugh about. Kind of like Menneken Pis or so.

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 9:34 p.m.    

Putin should love this guy because at least he is taller than one famous person

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 5:16 p.m.    

You mean Lenin was as tall as Bandera? LOL

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 9:08 p.m.    

and you thought Yuschenko sowed discord...you ain't seen nothing yet

get ready for Stalin's rehabilitation...

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 9:22 p.m.    

Much like anything else the PoRetards attempts, this will come to nothing.... except to expose the fact that they are Ukrainophobes.

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 9:54 p.m.    

Nothing that the POR or Moscow will ever or can ever do will diminish the Heroism of Bandera and Shukhevych and of their GIANT STATUS in the hearts and minds of the Ukrainian people. Both of these Warriors for the freedom and independence of the Ukrainian nation against ALL ememies, foreign and domestic, is forever etched in the hearts and minds of the Ukrainian nation. Their heroic status in Ukrainian history is SECURE, as they fought for God and Country, just as much as did their predecessors the Ukrainian Kozaks, who also are hated by past and present Muscovites and their lackeys!

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 5:54 p.m.    

Bandera is a hero of a few Canadian villages.

He certainly does not represent, the spirit of real Ukraina. The award for this Nazi should be taken away.

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 9:57 p.m.    

Firstly Shukhevych never collaborated with the Nazis, as the UPA was created after Bandera and others were imprizoned, ergo after the &quot;alliance&quot; ended. Secondly, this case of whether it is really so wrong what Bandera did can be debated, for example, the Finns chose to fight the Russians, which is basically the same as what Bandera did. While it is true that the Finns never allied themselves with the Nazis, the idea in what Bandera did was the same, it was more opposing the Russians, than collaborating with the Nazis.

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 10:10 p.m.    

Finally some commonsense. Bandera should have been tried as a war criminal not hero worships. The world has condemned Yushchenko for his ac tof stupidity and division. Full support to Party of Regions efforts to restore balance and respect back to Ukraine. v

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 10:18 p.m.    

Yushchenko unilaterally grated the award inn his last days as President. Convention has it that a caretaker president should not make such decision s without ten consent and support of all major parties. Clearly the process or granting the award itself was flawed.

Yushchenko himself has established the precedent were decisions of a president can he revoked retrospectively.

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 10:21 p.m.    

The party of regions is doing the correct thing. Bandera was a neo-Nazi sympathizer who certainly never represented the entire Ukrainian nation. The dangerous nationalist policies of Timoshenko and Yuschenko must be reversed!!

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 10:46 p.m.    

Bandera was not a Nazi as he was not aryan

He used the Germans from the 1920's , before Hitler, to help fight Ukraine's enemies, Poland and Russia. Once he declared an independent Ukraine in 1941, the Germans arrested him, and declared all OUN members enemies of Germany

The UPA formed in 1943 as a natural result of self defense groups centered locally that wer defending themselves from Germans, Russian Partisans, the Polish AK, and later NKVD agent provocateurs.

Bandera did USE the Germans, but what grates on the minds od Ukarinophobes is that these freedom loving Patriots fought on into the late 1950s successfully against Stalin, while everyone else just sat back and let Stalin do what he wanted to them

The newly declassified NKVD/KGB documents that the SBU has released confirm these FACTS and proof false all these Russian based, FSB supported anti Ukrainian claims.

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 5:06 p.m.    

Bandera and Shuhevich are proponents of &quot;Ukranian race&quot;.

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 5:52 p.m.    

Mussolini was not an Aryan. Was he not a Nazi?

Bandera is was a Nazi scum. Awarding him a 'hero' title is a huge shame for Ukraine. Go for it, POR, pora!!

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Anonymous Feb. 20, 2010, 5:06 a.m.    

Mussolin was not a Nazi actually, but a Fascists. Italian Fascism and Germany Nazism are two different things, but they did not teach you that in Commie-world did they?

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 12:07 a.m.    

who did Stalin represent when he was collaborating with the Nazis for several YEARS ?

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 11:22 p.m.    

you are a clown and better shut up

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, noon    

Classic Moskal answer, instead of arguing the points, you make a useless statment. Argue any of the 4 points by Toshu, please...id like to see if you can make any valid counter-points. Bet you cant...at least not legitimate ones.

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 11:55 p.m.    

who decides whether anything here is 'legitimate'? you? LOL! :))

Bandera is a legitimate enemy of Ukrainian people. Austro-Hungarian, Nazi scum.

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Anonymous Feb. 20, 2010, 5:09 a.m.    

Another comment, and no argument, classy. Bandera was no Austrian or Hungarian...what does that Empire have to do with your ethnicity? Nothing. People like you are legitimatley Anti-Ukrainian, against the language, against our history and against our independance, go to Maskva and brown nose put-in garbage...he is a legitimate enemy of Ukraine

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 10:44 p.m.    

Yushchenko has once again brought Ukraine into international disrepute.

A president who represents 5% only has insulted Ukraine and the memory of WWII.

The world has condemned Yushchenko' act of hero worshiping Nazi sympathisers. Poland and Israel have both spoken out now its time for the west to do likewise.

http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/59777/

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 10:47 p.m.    

This article by Ames is by a lacky of Moscow and does not represent the West, but rather the Left wing lapdogs of Putin

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 10:59 p.m.    

Yushchenko is far from perfect on that the record is clear but at least he had the balls to say fcuk you to vlad and your mindless bending of perversion of history.

poland has no credibility in the matter given their oppression of the people in the region at the time and the israelies are so bitter and twisted at their own misgivings they couldnt lie straight in bed.

of course had stepan had a history of slaughtering innocent, unarmed palenstinian women and children in gaza perhaps ben would have had a different view - or could it be that ben was in moscow to get support to screw iran and avoid a veto on sanctions for iran in the security council from russia and vlad said do me a favour and speak up on this - just another lapdog

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 11:21 p.m.    

Both the Poles and their Jewish collaborators as well as the Russians and their Jewish collaborators have committed heinous atrocities against the Ukrainian people so they should just shut up and mind their own business. I'm sure that David was not loved by the Philistines any more than Bandera is loved by the Russians and their lackeys.

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 11:15 p.m.    

This is the reason why the kremlin hates Bandera and lies about Bandera:

ORIGINAL RECORDING OF SPEACH BY STEPAN BANDERA (1959):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E23fpnYajU

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 11:31 p.m.    

Did Bandera really have a duck's voice ? Ok, he was a dwarf, but that squeaking voice ? Poor guy, a freak actually.

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 11:34 p.m.    

Yes, he was a freak, physically, mentally and morally.

A Ukrainian nationalist to pu it simply. They are all like this.

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 11:45 p.m.    

At least he had a functioning brain. Unlike yurself and others like you.

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 1:19 a.m.    

yourself, not &quot;yurself&quot;.

Bandera did not speak English and althogh he tried to mingele between the Germans he spoke a terrible German and so did all his followers who came to Munich after him. Shach!!!

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 3:38 a.m.    

True Stalin's German was much better. His German was so good that he was able to be an ally for ten years with his German Socialist brothers until they both got greedy.

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Anonymous Feb. 17, 2010, 11:53 p.m.    

Thanks for posting this URL. I didn't know that Bandera's speech was on U-tube.

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 12:06 a.m.    

There is a lot more garbage on Youtube, not only Bandera.

Just search for UPA/Bandera or Ukrainian nazis

You will find a lot. Have fun !

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 12:53 a.m.    

I am deeply ashamed to be Ukrainian when I read those many embarrassing

pro-Bandera comments here. You all should be ashamed !!!

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 11:04 a.m.    

Please stop trying to claim to be Ukrainian. Everybody knows you're clearly Russian. Now if you would just return there.

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 1:58 a.m.    

Olha, you were already ashamed to be Ukrainian... too bad for you.

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 6:21 p.m.    

I confess that after a long thinking I also feel deeply ashamed and beg all forum participants to forgive my antidemocratic, antisemitic and stupid nationalistic postings I have submitted before.

Thank you.

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Anonymous Feb. 20, 2010, 5:04 a.m.    

You Katsap, instead of arguing any of my points, you simply steal my name, and post garbage. Bandera was a Hero of Ukraine, whether u accept that or not.

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Anonymous Feb. 20, 2010, 5:12 a.m.    

You &quot;guest&quot; should confess to stealing other's names, being anti Ukrainian, and anti-Western. When did i ever say anything anti-semitic? or anti-democratic...is beyond me. You are a Russian Chauvinist, too ignorant to argue points, and just post comments and no arguments. Please leave.

Thank you, Katsap

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 8:42 p.m.    

Anyone who claims to be a Ukrainian and is ashamed of Bandera either needs to study Ukrainian history or stop claiming to be Ukrainian. Bandera was a true Ukrainian War Hero and most true ethnic Ukrainians have been waiting a long time to have Bandera recognized as such, regardless of what Ukraine's present or former enemies may think!!!

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 9:40 p.m.    

Hey man, do you know where the name &quot;Bandera &quot; comes from ? Which ethnic group, which language ? Spanish - ok, but what subsystem of Spanish ? Hahahahahahahaha !!!!!

Oh boy, and you spit around with nationalistic trash.

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Anonymous Feb. 18, 2010, 11:53 p.m.    

Bandera was Austro-Hungarian. Let's get this straight and never forget.

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