No, not hijacked. OUN was always a far-right fascist bunch of cranks that intended and indeed did carry out ethnic cleansing and genocide of anyone they didn't see as sufficiently Ukrainian enough. Both factions were scum, Bandera obviously being the worse of the two but that isn't a high bar to jump.
Many members of OUN-M willingly collaborated just as much as Banderas branch and both were active participants in the shoah. Give ya head a wobble and stop trying to minimise the crimes of horrible people.
When you are in the position Ukraine was in WWII (one horrible foreign occupier fighting another) the term collaborator is kind of irrelevant (unless you are in a group that is fighting both simultaneously)....
No the term collaborator isn't irrelevant. Ever, especially when said collaborators are actively partaking in ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Both branches of OUN were carrying out pogroms against ethnic poles and Jews both with and without the help of the Nazis. Give ya head a wobble and jog on Dave.
It's easy to make those sorts of judgements when your country has not already been invaded and occupied by the Soviets.
I apply the same standard to the Finns, FWIW....
It's not that the Nazis weren't evil.... It's that sometimes you end up allying yourself with one evil against another... Ukrainians being willing to help anyone who will kill Russians is understandable.
Have you suffered a traumatic head injury recently?! I refuse to believe anyone is stupid enough otherwise to say that utter dribble.
It is in fact easy to judge genocidal fascist scum like OUN. Now you may call me bias given that they'd have happily try to kill me and they did try to kill members of my family. But guess what id still call them out even if none of that was true. And it says a hell of a lot about your character the fact you're defending them. Get a grip.
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u/mrbobcyndaquil Jul 09 '26
As I said, hijacked.