A few hundred activists of right-wing parties marched with torches in Kyiv to commemorate their hero Stepan Bandera on his birthday. He would have been 106 this year.
The striking march, which was organized by Svoboda and Right Sector parties, has become traditional in the past few years. Activists walked along the central Kreshchatyk Streets, carrying party flags as well and the red-and-black flags of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought during World War II against both the Soviets and the Nazis for Ukraine’s independence.
Many people in the crowd carried the portraits of Bandera, who remains one of the greatest heroes and ideologists of right-wing and nationalistic movements in Ukraine. Bandera was assassinated by the Soviet secret police, the KGB, in 1959 in Munich, Germany, where he was in hiding.
