Residence of the Ambassador of Ukraine in the Czech Republic denounced the words landed on Bandera supporters
Ukrainian Ambassador's residence in the Czech Republic expressed its protest to President Milos Zeman, who has compared the procession of supporters of Stepan Bandera with the marches of the Nazis under Hitler. An appropriate message is published on the Department.
" Ukrainian Democratie considers it appropriate to emphasize that, despite possible differences in views on Stepan Bandera, the majority of Ukrainians it is a symbol of struggle for freedom and independence of our country ", - reported in the Embassy.
above the head of the Czech Republic milo? Zeman condemned torchlight procession nationalists in Kiev in honor of the 106th anniversary of the birth of the head of the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists Stepan Bandera. Zeman led comparison of the procession marches of the Nazis during the years of Nazi Germany and said that " Ukraine is something bad."
Stepan Bandera was one of the founders of the Ukrainian insurgent army (UPA) in 1942, which operated mainly in Western Ukraine and fought against the Soviet army. In 1943, an agreement was reached between representatives of the German authorities and the OUN, the UPA will protect Railways and bridges from the Soviet partisans, to support the events of the German occupation authorities. Instead Germany promised to provide weapons and ammunition part of the UPA, and in the case of fascism's victory over the USSR to make the Ukrainian state under the protectorate of Germany. The UPA actively participated in the punitive actions of the Nazi troops, destroying and among them civilians sympathetic to the Soviet army.
The end of the Second world war Bandera lived in West Germany (Munich), where he led the terrorist activities of the OUN and UPA in the square of the USSR.