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By 2013, the OUN-B’s “Nationalist portal” (UkrNationalism.com) defined the “organized nationalist movement” as the Svoboda party, the OUN-M, the OUN-B and its front groups, as well as the “Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists,” an apparently independent political party that represented OUN-B in the 1990s.

Svoboda played an important rôle in the 2013–14 Euromaidan protest movement that culminated in the “Revolution of Dignity,” or “neo-Nazi coup,” take your pick. Regardless, for most of 2014, Oleksandr Sych served as Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. “Who exactly is governing Ukraine?” asked The Guardian, which described Sych as “an anti-abortion activist [who] once publicly suggested that women should ‘lead the kind of lifestyle to avoid the risk of rape, including refraining from drinking alcohol and being in controversial company’.”

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Svoboda’s point person in New York is a friend of the “Bandera Lobby.” As of 2019, Andriy Dzoban was the deputy head of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America chapter in Riverhead, New York. That year, he signed a far-right petition that was presented to the Mykolaiv city council in southern Ukraine, calling for a 93 year old veteran of the Waffen-SS to be awarded the title of “Honorary Citizen of Mykolaiv.”

In 2017, Dzoban spent several days at the OUN-B affiliated summer camp in Ellenville, New York. That summer, he took a couple photos there with “Path of Victory” editor Viktor Roh, and later that year appears to have accompanied him to Ellenville from Long Island for the US Banderites’ annual ideological winter camp.

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Natalia Tsebryk appears to be Svoboda’s point person in Rome, and at least used to be a board member of the General Union of Labor (UGL), which Politico described as “a far-right-affiliated Italian union” after it signed a deal with a coalition of food-delivery companies (including Uber) in 2020.

According to Alba Sidera Gallart, a journalist focused on the Italian far-right, “For some time now, Italy has had trade unions that are openly linked to right-wing parties, like the UGL: indeed, the latter’s conference was attended not only by [Matteo] Salvini, but also by representatives of the right wing of Silvio Berlusconi’s party, the post-fascist Brothers of Italy party led by Giorgia Meloni, and even Simone di Stefano, the leader of the neo-fascist group CasaPound.”

During the summer of 2015, after a shootout between police and members of Right Sector in southwestern Ukraine, Tsebryk joined a flash mob organized by Italian Banderites in front of the Colosseum to express solidarity with the notorious far-right movement.

Two years later, for the fake 75th anniversary of the OUN-B’s Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Tsebryk welcomed Andriy Illenko, the deputy leader of the Svoboda party, to Rome for a “historical (Banderite) reading” event with Yuriy Tykhovlis, an assistant to the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Tykhovlis, like Tsebryk, hails from Ternopil. The Ukrainian nationalist Vatican official is now a senior regional coordinator for Eastern Europe at the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

  • Kaffe
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    81 year ago

    Oh shit, let’s go! I’ve been researching these mfs for a while now, this looks very useful.