Ukraine on Fire Page #3

bandera and other nationalist leaders

fled to europe where the cia covered them

the cia later informed the immigration

and naturalization service it had concealed

stepan bandera and other ukrainians from soviets

the operations involving ukrainians

continued for many years

the nurenberg trials of 1945 and 1946

had put the political, economic and military

leaders of fascist germany to justice

showing the whole world the face of nazism

and the crimes they committed

but the ukrainian nazi were spared of such fate

and some were even granted amnesty by the cia

by 1951 the agency excused the illegal

activities of oun's security branch

in the name of cold war necessity

in 1949 m , the man responsible

for the mass massacres in wolyn

was moved to the usa where he died in 1989

without ever being investigated for his crimes

protecting the ukrainian nationalist m

the cia stopped criminal investigation of the

immigration and naturalization service

perhaps bandera lost his use to the usa

or maybe the KGB agency outplayed the cia

but in 1959 stepan bandera was killed in munich

where he was hiding under the name of stepan popel

i0t's fair to say that by sheer coincidence

bandera became the main symbol of

ukrainian nationalism because he wasn't neither

its only nor its most powerful leader

dmitriy dontsov was the father of the far right

totalitarian doctrine in ukraine

andriy melnik the leader of another fraction of the oun

roman shuhevich the leader of the ukrainian rebel's army

and many others

bandera's dangerous ideology

suppressed by the soviet government

but supported by external forces

was never completely eliminated

the seeds of ukrainian nationalism

were passed from generation to generation

unfortunately not many years had gone by

before they once again grew

in 1954 ukraine's territory was expanded once more

when nikita khrushev, leader of the USSR

and an ukrainian himself

generously gave the crimean region to ukraine

historians will debate for many years

about this being legal and 60 years later

another series of dramatic events

were taking place in crimea

reporter:
the eyes of the world are on ukraine

as the crisis in crimea continues

several dozens of well armed people

have captured the government in crimea

should ukraine just shrug its shoulders

and say 'ok, crimea is lost'?

narrator:
the old argument would repeat once again

the cold war was going up and down

while both rivals were obsessed

with growing their military capacity

the turning point came with the perestroyka

when the USSR got its new leader

michael gorbachev, in the middle of 1980

perestroyka means restructuring towards

democratization and modernization

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