Quoting page 237:

Bandera’s physical absence from Lviv, and many other localities in which the pogroms took place, does not exonerate him of the responsibility for the crimes committed by the OUN-B, because he had prepared the “Ukrainian National Revolution,” which anticipated establishing a state and eliminating the political and ethnic “enemies” of this state. The preparation included writing “Struggle and Activities,” together with Stets’ko, Shukhevych, and Lenkavs’kyi, and, with the help of this and other documents, informing the underground in Ukraine how to act after the beginning of the German attack on the Soviet Union. “Struggle and Activities” was unambiguous about what the Ukrainian nationalists should do with Jews, Poles, Soviets, and Ukrainian opponents.

Page 207:

Stefania Cang-Schutzman saw how the Jews in the Łąckiego Street prison were beaten and otherwise mistreated, how women were undressed, and how pregnant women were beaten in the stomach. The [anticommunist] Ukrainians ordered the Jews to give up jewels, money, and all other valuable objects that they possessed. Another survivor from the Łąckiego Street prison remembered that a German officer interrupted the violence of the crowd with the comment: “We are not Bolsheviks.” People watching the mistreatment of the Jews from the roofs demanded, however, that the Jews in the prison yard be killed. Alfred Monaster wrote in his testimony that on 1 July, in the prison on Łąckiego Street, beautiful Jewish women were selected, […]

I’ll let you guess what happened after that.

Page 215:

Posters with slogans such as “Ukraine for the Ukrainians” […] informed their readers as to whom the territory in which they lived should belong, and who should and should not be allowed to live in it. Many of the posters and other revolutionary propaganda materials linked the idea of founding a Ukrainian state with killing the Jews. One such poster “To the Ukrainian Nation! [Ukraїns’kyi Narode!]” read: “Know! Moscow, Hungarians, Jews [Zhydova]—are your enemies, Kill them, do not forget! Your leadership is the leadership of the Ukrainian Nationalists OUN, your leader is Stepan Bandera, your aim is an Independent United Ukrainian State” On 30 June 1941, a group of about ten Jews was forced to print the OUN-B posters and other propaganda material that motivated the crowd to kill the Jews.

That is a tiny sample of the violence that anticommunists inspired by Stepan Bandera (among others) committed; these clippings can’t possibly do them any justice. I only end the sampling there for those of us not yet prepared to read a 600+ page biography.

I end this on a less unpleasant note, from page 354:

During the summer [of 1959], [Bohdan Stashyns’kyi] spent some days in Borshchovychi with his parents and came back to Munich on 14 October 1959 with a […] weapon. The next day, he went to Bandera’s apartment building at Kreittmayrstrasse 7, and in the stairwell, in the vicinity of the front door, fired the poison from both barrels at Bandera’s face. The second barrel had been reserved for Bandera’s bodyguard, who was not accompanying the Providnyk that day. Stashyns’kyi stated that he was too nervous to control this step and instead of firing only one capsule of cyanide, he fired both. The quantity of cyanide that reached Bandera’s mouth was so large that the Providnyk swallowed some drops. This enabled the experts to identify the poison during the post-mortem.

(Emphasis added.)

Whether Bandera was more deserving of either the intended single dose, or the accidental double dose, is a choice that I leave up to you.

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      At least he got to see his movement go up in flames, and wasn’t around to see its resurgance in Europe. Silver lining?

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    Rest in piss You wont be missed even after more than 70 years 🤣👌👌👌

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      The OUN originated in the far west of Ukraine originally to fight the poles, it was founded by veterans of the polish-Ukrainian war. Ukraine has a tiny border conflict with Hungary over a region called Transcarpathia. Which seems very tiny on a map of Ukraine, but was like 1/3rd the OUN’s original “gang turf”. Before Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia the country was falling apart and the Ukrainians had largely been granted full autonomy in Transcarpathia. Hungary then invaded Slovakia and also claimed Transcarpathia which really hadn’t been considered a part of Hungary for centuries. The Hungarians massacred the Ukrainian population, Ukrainians that fled to Poland were immediately shot by the poles. The ones who fled to Romania, were robbed and arrested/kidnapped and sold back to the Hungarians. All of this would’ve been fresh in his mind, even still today, one of the first things they did after the 2014 coup was ban schools from teaching in Hungarian. Something that earned condemnation from even the far right Hungarian Victor Orban. Bandera was also the leader of the “galician youth” wing of the OUN. While originally made up of old war veterans the membership was increasingly made up of younger more radical violent members who were much more obsessed with nazism, anti semitism, and hitlerian global domination.

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      Possible explanation: Hungarian forces (whose participation the Chancellery did not covet) were absent from Lviv where the posters hung; ordinary Ukrainians could expect no danger from civilians of Hungarian (and therefore ‘foreign’) descent.

      Nevertheless, Ukrainian anticommunists were still capable of respecting (armed) Hungarians. Page 228:

      In Stanislaviv, which was liberated by Hungarian troops, the celebration took place on 12 July 1941. It began with a church service and was attended by representatives of the Hungarian authorities. From a podium, the engineer Semianchuk read the OUN-B proclamation, which the crowd frequently interrupted with shouts like “Glory to the Ukrainian State!” “Glory to Stepan Bandera!” “Glory to the OUN!” “Glory to Adolf Hitler!” “Glory to the Allied Hungarian Army!” […] The ceremony was also attended by Ukrainian militiamen in mazepynka caps who, shortly before the celebrations, were prevented by the Hungarian army from organizing a huge pogrom in Stanislaviv, although they did organize a small one. The OUN-B complained about this incident in its reports.

      (It’s possible that the Hungarian army may have also inhibited similar violence in Lviv, but I have seen no evidence of such.)