Bertelsen, a former research fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, has in recent years cited Holocaust deniers to clear the name of Ivan Demjanjuk, the infamous Ukrainian [Axis] death camp guard.
According to historian Per Rudling, on page 296 of Shkandrij’s latest book, he also “insinuates that the convicted Sobibor death camp guard Ivan Demjanjuk (1920–2012) was framed by the German courts on the basis of ‘forged documents.’ Remarkably, considering that the study is published by a reputable academic publisher, Shkandrij lends credence to the evidently false claims of notorious Holocaust deniers in the Journal of Historical Review, which, Shkandrij maintains has ‘convinced some researchers that Demjanjuk was neither at Sobibor nor at Trawniki’.”
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The last speaker needed no introduction for the CUSUR audience, and neither for many Bandera Lobby Blog readers. The “Last Word on the Matter” went to Lubomyr Luciuk, a Banderite professor at the Royal Military College of Canada, who got his blog deleted from the Times of Israel website after he publicly fantasized about throwing soup at the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa. Like the Scottish OUN‐B leader Peter Kormylo, he is a Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Last year, Luciuk self‐published a book, Operation Payback: Soviet Disinformation and Alleged Nazi War Criminals in North America, which his bio on the CUSUR program hailed an “instant classic.” This year, McGill‐Queen’s University Press published a book on “Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement” that Luciuk co‐edited with Volodymyr Viatrovych, the OUN‐B’s former “memory czar” of Ukraine.
In his lecture, Luciuk of course did not talk about the role of OUN‐B and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the Holocaust, but made sure to mention “the Soviet agents” that “disguised themselves on false‐flag operations, pretended to be UPA, went in the villages, killed people, and then the UPA got blamed.”
In other words, “some of the stories you hear about villages being attacked by UPA, killing people, and innocents and so on, are true, except that they weren’t really members of UPA. They were Soviets in disguise.” In fact, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army butchered countless numbers of Poles, Jews, and other “innocents and so on.”
These people are essentially Holocaust deniers. For years, historians like Per Rudling have had these Banderites increasingly flailing, and on the defensive. To hear it from Lubomyr Luciuk, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given them “the best chance ever to tell our story… so now is the time for us to win the memory war.”
Around this time, an old friend of Zaryckyj’s stepped outside to smoke several cigarettes, and among other things insisted to me that the KGB paid off John‐Paul Himka, the leading historian who wrote Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust, a must‐read book published by Columbia University Press in 2021.
Events that happened today (September 25):
1937: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale‐boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
1944: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdrew from Arnhem via Oosterbeek, escaping Axis forces.
1946: Hans Eppinger, Jr., Axis physician who joined the NSDAP (despite his Jewish ancestry) and performed experiments on concentration camp prisoners, took his own life.
1968: Hans Friedrich Karl Günther, the only leading racial theorist to join the NSDAP before 1933, was kind enough to drop dead.
1991: CIA asset and the Butcher of Lyon, Nikolaus ‘Klaus’ Barbie, finally kicked the bucket.
2005: Friedrich Peter, active Fascist, finally hit the dirt.