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‘Hero of Ukraine’ Nazi Collaborator Stepan Bandera Was a British Agent
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For parts of Ukraine society, its politics and its military structure, the controversial historical figure, Stepan Bandera, a genocidal Nazi collaborator and Ukrainian ultra Nationalist, is still regarded as a hero and role model.
After World War Two, Bandera was killed by KGB agents in West Germany, but his legacy is still very strong in Zelensky’s Ukraine. In an Azov Battalion video shot at the famous stand-off at the Azovstal metallurgy plant in Mariupol in the spring of 2022, a woman wearing camouflage could be seen singing, “Bandera is our father, Ukraine is the mother. We will fight for Ukraine!”
For many Ukrainian emigrants in places like Canada and the United State, Bandera is still worships as a kind of patron saint of Ukrainian nationalism, although many historians and political analysts have likened it to an extremist cult. The modern cult of Bandera appears to have emerged in the 1990’s following the collapse of the Soviet Union, with Ukrainian nationalists erecting numerous monuments, shrines and museums, as well as streets named in his honor.
However, one of the lesser known, but crucial aspects of Stepan Bandera was his role as an asset for Britain’s MI6 secret intelligence services…
IMAGE: A 2016 birthday rally in Kiev, in honour of Nazi collaborator and British asset Stepan Bandera (Photo: Sergei Chuzavkov/ AP/Press Association)
Kit Klarenberg writes for Substack…
Stepan Bandera’s Sinister MI6 Alliance Exposed
March 17th marked the 80th anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian National Committee. With the Red Army rapidly advancing on Berlin, Nazi officials released Ukrainian ultranationalist military units from their command, and recognised the Committee – and a newly-formed National Army under its control – as the legitimate government of Ukraine. It was hoped the UNC would continue Hitler’s crusade against the Soviet Union following Berlin’s rapidly impending defeat in World War II, which occurred two months later.
The UNC’s establishment was eagerly supported by notorious Ukrainian ultranationalist Stepan Bandera, founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), two ultranationalist factions heavily complicit in the Holocaust. As the mainstream media has acknowledged, his legacy endures in modern Ukraine, in the form of Neo-Nazi military units such as Azov Regiment, and he remains a much-celebrated figure in certain quarters of the country – much to the chagrin of Kiev’s Eastern European neighbours.
Bandera believed Nazi Germany’s UNC recognition would encourage American and British backing for OUN-B’s anti-Communist crusade, and Ukrainian independence. The Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR), which the OUN-B was instrumental in founding in 1944, was already in covert contact with London and Washington. As it was, no such formal support ever came to pass. Yet, little-known declassified CIA records expose the malign contours of a long-running conspiracy between Bandera and MI6 to destabilize the Soviet Union during the Cold War’s initial years.
This dark handshake only expired because MI6’s fascist asset was resistant to joining forces with other Ukrainian anti-Communist forces, therefore jeopardising plans by Washington and London for all-out war with Moscow in Donbass. That plot, intended to ultimately collapse the entire USSR, has eerie, direct echoes of the current Ukraine proxy war. So too Britain’s willingness, then and now, to go far further than the US in building alliances with the most reactionary, dangerous Ukrainian ultranationalist elements, in service of balkanising Russia.
‘Bandit Type’
MI6’s post-war relationship with Bandera began while he was exiled in post-war Munich, West Germany in 1948, via Gerhard von Mende. An ethnic German hailing from Riga, Latvia, von Mende has been described as an “enthusiastic Nazi” who headed Berlin’s Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territory, or Ostministerium. Among other connivances, von Mende was charged with recruiting fifth columnists from the USSR’s Central Asian republics, to undermine and attack Communist authorities. He has been credited with influencing subsequent British and American support for Islamic extremism…
Continue this historical analysis by Kit Klarenberg at Substack
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