On the first day of the year 2019, nearly 2,000 activists from political parties, Svoboda and Right Sector organized a march with torches to mark the 110th anniversary of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera’s birthday in Kyiv. Also, approximately 500 activists from the National Corps political party marched separately on the parallel street wearing Santa Claus hats to greet Ukrainians with the New Year and also to commemorate Bandera’s birthday.
Bandera lived from 1909 to 1959, when he was murdered by Soviet KGB agent Bogdan Stashynsky in Munich, Germany. For much of World War II, Bandera was imprisoned by Nazi Germany for his leadership of a nationalist movement that fought both Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Euromaidan Press recently published a 1954 interview by a Cologne, Germany, radio station with Bandera. It was declassified and made public by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
