Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist by Rossolinski Grzegorz;

Author:Rossolinski, Grzegorz; [Rossolinski-Liebe, Grzegorz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, Eastern, Modern, 20th Century, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Fascism & Totalitarianism
ISBN: 9783838266848
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-03-22T16:00:00+00:00

Fig. 33. Stalin, Zhukov, Khrushchev, and the Ukrainian people. Vilna Ukraїna 27 July 1945.

For the first anniversary of the liberation of Lviv by the Red Army, the stage in the opera house was decorated with a huge portrait of Stalin.[1873] Shortly afterwards, on 27 July 1945, Vil’na Ukraїna published a black-and-white drawing of Stalin with Marshal of the Soviet Army Georgii Zhukov on his right and Khrushchev on his left, standing in a place that seems to be the market square in Lviv (Fig. 33). The happy crowd around the three Soviet leaders smiles at them. A man dressed in peasant clothing holds bread and salt. A little girl of about five hands flowers to Stalin and leans her head against him. The Vozhd’ puts his left hand on her head. A huge red banner with the coat of arms of Soviet Ukraine waves above the three Soviet leaders. Another one waves from the tower of the town hall. The simple black-and-white picture with two red elements was a perfect explanation of who held power in western Ukraine at the end of the Second World War.[1874]

The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, during which such names as Bandera, Mel’nyk, and Kubiiovych were mentioned, again drew the attention of the Soviet propaganda apparatus to the question of Ukrainian radical nationalism. The Soviet Ukrainian press began to demand that the OUN leaders and other Ukrainian politicians be put in the dock. The real defendants at Nuremberg were, however, only Germans. No Croatian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovak, or Ukrainian collaborators or war criminals were prosecuted there. Some other leaders such as Ion Antonescu, Jozef Tiso, and Ferenc Szálasi were convicted in their respective countries. Others, such as Pavelić, Sima, and Bandera were not prosecuted, because they distorted and concealed the crimes committed by their movements, or because there was not enough evidence to put them on trial, or they were protected by Western intelligence, or disappeared.[1875]

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