Furthermore, while the Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem has also attempted to pin the Lviv Massacres on Ukrainians, especially Roman Shukhevych, leader of the Nachtigall batallion and later the anti-Nazi, anti-Soviet Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the head of the Association of Jewish Communities and Organizations of Ukraine, Vaad Yosyp Zisels, asked Yad Vashem for documentary evidence to prove that claim and was unable to obtain it.

During his studies, he devoted his efforts to underground and nationalist activities, for which he was arrested several times. The first time was on 14 November 1928, for illegally celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ZUNR; [23] in 1930 with his brother Andrii; [23] and in 1932-33 as many as six times. Between March and June 1932, he spent three months in prison in connection with the investigation of the assassination of Emilian Czechowski [ pl] by Iurii Berezynskyi [ uk]. [23] There are Stefan Bandera museums in Dubliany, Volia-Zaderevatska, Staryi Uhryniv, and Yahilnytsia. There is a Stepan Bandera Museum of Liberation Struggle in London, part of the OUN Archive, [185] and The Bandera Family Museum ( Музей родини Бандерів) in Stryi. [186] [187] There are also Stepan Bandera streets in Lviv (formerly vulytsia Myru, "Peace street"), Lutsk (formerly Suvorovska street), Rivne (formerly Moskovska street), Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chervonohrad (formerly Nad Buhom street), [188] Berezhany (formerly Cherniakhovskoho street), Drohobych (formerly Sliusarska street), Stryi, Kalush, Kovel, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Horodenka, Dubrovytsia, Kolomyia, Dolyna, Iziaslav, Skole, Shepetivka, Brovary, and Boryspil, and a Stepan Bandera Avenue in Ternopil (part of the former Lenin Avenue). [189] On 16 January 2017, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance stated that of the 51,493 streets, squares and "other facilities" that had been renamed (since 2015) due to decommunization 34 streets were named after Stepan Bandera. [190] Due to "association with the communist totalitarian regime", the Kyiv City Council on 7 July 2016 voted 87 to 10 in favor of supporting renaming Moscow Avenue to Stepan Bandera Avenue. [191] [192] Professor of Holocaust Studies, Please a little bit of history not only "HATE ALL UKRAINIANS".What is You hiding???KOMZET ,OZET, JDC, ORT-colonization of Ukraine and Crimea???? Crimean Tatars deportation-1924 and 1943 -JDC????How many Ukrainians died from the hands of Trotsky, Stalin, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Rykov, Tomsky, Postyshev, Blumkin, Yagoda, Orlov, Beria and many more Your "HEROES OF RUSSIA" with the graves next to KREMLIN WALL. A poll conducted in early May 2021 by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation together with the Razumkov Centre's sociological service showed that 32% of citizens consider Bandera's activity as a historical figure to be positive for Ukraine, as many consider his activity negative; another 21% consider Bandera's activities as positive as they are negative. According to the poll, a positive attitude prevails in the western region of Ukraine (70%); in the central region of the state, 27% of respondents consider his activity positive, 27% consider his activity negative and 27% consider his activity both positive and negative; negative attitude prevails in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine (54% and 48% of respondents consider his activity negative for Ukraine, respectively). [131] Torchlight procession in honor of the 106 anniversary of the birthday of Stepan Bandera, Kyiv, 1 January 2015 "Bandera says your Russofobia is insufficient", an image of Bandera in Lviv in August 2023A brand known for its smooth and chocolatey tequila with notes of fresh roasted coffee, chocolate, and vanilla, Bandero Café is raising the bar in drinks innovation. Launched in the UK in May 2023, their small-batch tequila is crafted using the finest Blue Weber Agave, matured for seven years in the red clay soil of Jalisco’s Los Altos Highlands in Mexico. This meticulous process results in mouth-watering agave, leading to a sweet and creamy-textured tequila. Hero Or Villain? Historical Ukrainian Figure Symbolizes Today's Feud". NPR . Retrieved 18 August 2018. Carynnyk, Marco (May 2011). "Foes of our rebirth: Ukrainian nationalist discussions about Jews, 1929-1947". Nationalities Papers. 39 (3): 327. doi: 10.1080/00905992.2011.570327. ISSN 0090-5992. S2CID 159894460. However, equalizing political and strategic MISTAKES/MISCALCULATIONS of Stalin and some Western leaders to collaboration with Nazis would be a great stretch of ideological fancy and distortion of historical content.

Efraim, Zuroff. "Wiesenthal Center Harshly Criticizes Kiev March to Mark Birthday of Ukrainian Nazi Collaborator Stefan Bandera". www.wiesenthal.com . Retrieved 20 September 2022. Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Center noted Bandera's role in Holocaust crimes and the tens of thousands of Jewish victims murdered in Ukraine...

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In his 2006 article discussing "the reinterpretations of [Bandera's] career", historian David R. Marples, who specialises in the history of this area of Eastern Europe, stated that "the impact of Bandera lies less in his own political life and beliefs than in the events enacted in his name, or the conflicts that arose between his supporters and their enemies." [126] According to The Guardian, "Post-war Soviet history propagated the image of Bandera and the UPA as exclusively fascist collaborators and xenophobes." [127] On the other hand, with the rise of nationalism in Ukraine, his memory there has been elevated. The glorification and attempts to rehabilitate Bandera are growing trends in Ukraine. [128] Attitudes in Ukraine towards Bandera Lviv soccer fans at a game against Donetsk. The Ukrainian banner reads "Bandera – our hero". Krivitsky, Walter G. " In Stalin's Secret Service: Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect."

Bandera associated himself with a variety of Ukrainian organizations during his time in high school, particularly Plast, Sokil, and Organization of the Upper Grades of the Ukrainian High Schools (OVKUH). [22] In 1927 Bandera joined Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO). [22] In February 1929 he joined Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). [23] Bandera was drawn into national activity by Stepan Okhrymovych [ uk], one of the leaders of the Ukrainian youth movement. [20] Berkhoff, Karel C.; Carynnyk, M. (1999). "The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Its Attitude toward Germans and Jews: Iaroslav Stets'ko's 1941 Zhyttiepys". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 23 (3): 149–184. JSTOR 41036794. WWII by saying that if the issue was the saviour of British nation from Nazis he would not hesitate to make a deal with Devil himself, and he made it with Stalin, as made the US. did the Soviets had the same imperialistic, colonizing and genocidal goals in mind, as the Nazis had?To preclude your other quite "suggestive" questions I may also tell you that I have never apologized terrorism, the term that to me embraces not just individual terrorists and terrorists groups, but also states that regularly or occasionally used their military to terrorize civilian population along with terrorists/insurgency through so called collective punishment (thus committing a war crime, according to relevant international law.) Bandera grew up in a patriotic and religious household. [18] He did not attend primary school due to World War I and was taught at home by his parents. [18] At a young age, Bandera was undersized and slim. [1] He sang in a choir, played guitar and mandolin, enjoyed hiking, jogging, swimming, ice skating, basketball and chess. [19] The house of Bandera's family in Staryi Uhryniv, Ukraine Ukraine:: World War II and its aftermath – Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com . Retrieved 17 March 2010. Boghardt, Thomas (2022). Covert Legions: U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944-1949. Washington D.C: U.S. Army Center of Military History. pp.229–234.

Bandero specialises in creating premium Tequila from its base along the Mexico/California coast. All of its Tequila is made with the finest 100% Blue Weber agaves, grown in the rich red clay soil found at the foothills of the Guachimontones in Jalisco. On 22 January 2010, on the Day of Unity of Ukraine, the then-president of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko awarded to Bandera the title of Hero of Ukraine (posthumously) for "defending national ideas and battling for an independent Ukrainian state". [139] [140] A grandson of Bandera, also named Stepan, accepted the award that day from the Ukrainian President during the state ceremony to commemorate the Day of Unity of Ukraine at the National Opera House of Ukraine. [140] [141] [142] [143] In September 2022, a street that was named after Otto Schmidt in Dnipro was renamed to honor Bandera; [193] this street had originally been the Gymnasium Street until it was renamed to Otto Schmidt Street by Soviet authorities in 1934. [194] In December 2022, the recently liberated city of Izium decided to rename Pushkin Street to Stepana Bandera Street. [195] Creator of wildly successful brand Café Patron, John Paul is no stranger to taking the global drinks market by storm, and now brings considerable expertise to an authentic and sophisticated blend of coffee tequila from the Guachimotones region of Mexico – Bandero Café. Poll: 32% of Ukrainians consider Bandera's activities positive for Ukraine, the same number negative]. Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian) . Retrieved 7 May 2021.Treisman, Rachel (1 March 2022). "Putin's claim of fighting against Ukraine 'neo-Nazis' distorts history, scholars say". NPR . Retrieved 24 September 2022. But since the Yushenko's move is purely political one designed just to further aggravate Ukranian-Russian relations it is OK, and the history itself can be ignored - or better - scorned. and finances and driven Ukraine nation to bankruptcy) declared that genocidal bandit, whose gangs terrorized not just Jews, but Ukranians and Russians (who fought against Nazis), a Hero of Ukraine. Mr.PROFFESSOR! Who was saving Jews in Ukraine: Natalia Shukhevych/ YES, wife of the UPA Head Commander Roman Shukhevych/,Father Omelyan Kovch,Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Andrey Sheptytsky/all you call him nazi collaborator/.... International, Radio Canada; Himka, John-Paul American-Canadian historian and retired professor of history of the University of Alberta (13 August 2018). "Canadian monument to controversial Ukrainian national hero ignites debate". RCI | English . Retrieved 20 September 2022. Himka says attempts to whitewash UPA's wartime record harm Ukraine's fledgling democracy by encouraging the far right in Ukraine and negatively impact democratic practices within the Ukrainian community in Canada. I think personally that you can't be making heroes out of Holocaust perpetrators and ethnic cleansers, says Himka.