Serhii Plokhy
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If it's about issue of the far right in Ukraine, let's talk about US, let's talk about Russia, let's talk about France, let's compare. That's the only way how you deal with propaganda because propaganda is not necessarily something that is an outright lie. can be just one factor that's taken out of the context and is blown out of proportion. And that is good enough.
This is a story of the history of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Bandera as well, already after the end of the Second World War. Because what you got after the Second World War, so imagine May of 1945, the red banner is all over Riksdag.
This is a story of the history of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Bandera as well, already after the end of the Second World War. Because what you got after the Second World War, so imagine May of 1945, the red banner is all over Riksdag.
This is a story of the history of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Bandera as well, already after the end of the Second World War. Because what you got after the Second World War, so imagine May of 1945, the red banner is all over Riksdag.
The Red Army is in control of half of Europe, but the units of the Red Army are still fighting the war, and not just behind the Soviet lines, but within the borders of the Soviet Union. This war continues all the way into the early 1950s, almost up to Stalin's death.
The Red Army is in control of half of Europe, but the units of the Red Army are still fighting the war, and not just behind the Soviet lines, but within the borders of the Soviet Union. This war continues all the way into the early 1950s, almost up to Stalin's death.
The Red Army is in control of half of Europe, but the units of the Red Army are still fighting the war, and not just behind the Soviet lines, but within the borders of the Soviet Union. This war continues all the way into the early 1950s, almost up to Stalin's death.
the war is conducted by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which have a Ukrainian insurgent army, and the government tries to crush that resistance. So what it does is basically recruits local people to spy on the partisans on the underground. Bohdan Stashinsky is one of those people. His family is supporting the resistance. They provide food.
the war is conducted by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which have a Ukrainian insurgent army, and the government tries to crush that resistance. So what it does is basically recruits local people to spy on the partisans on the underground. Bohdan Stashinsky is one of those people. His family is supporting the resistance. They provide food.
the war is conducted by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which have a Ukrainian insurgent army, and the government tries to crush that resistance. So what it does is basically recruits local people to spy on the partisans on the underground. Bohdan Stashinsky is one of those people. His family is supporting the resistance. They provide food.
His sister is engaged with one of the local commanders of this underground unit. And they know everything about Stashinsky's family and they know everything about him because he is also collecting funds for the underground. So they have a conversation with him saying that, okay, that's what we got. And you and your family can go to prison or you help us a little bit.
His sister is engaged with one of the local commanders of this underground unit. And they know everything about Stashinsky's family and they know everything about him because he is also collecting funds for the underground. So they have a conversation with him saying that, okay, that's what we got. And you and your family can go to prison or you help us a little bit.
His sister is engaged with one of the local commanders of this underground unit. And they know everything about Stashinsky's family and they know everything about him because he is also collecting funds for the underground. So they have a conversation with him saying that, okay, that's what we got. And you and your family can go to prison or you help us a little bit.
We're interested in the fiancé of your sister, and we want to get him. And Stashinsky says yes. And once they round up the fiancé, he basically betrayed a member, almost a member of his family. He is done. He can't go back to his village. He can't go back to his study. He was studying in Lviv at that time. So he becomes, as I write in my book, the secret police becomes his family.
We're interested in the fiancé of your sister, and we want to get him. And Stashinsky says yes. And once they round up the fiancé, he basically betrayed a member, almost a member of his family. He is done. He can't go back to his village. He can't go back to his study. He was studying in Lviv at that time. So he becomes, as I write in my book, the secret police becomes his family.
We're interested in the fiancé of your sister, and we want to get him. And Stashinsky says yes. And once they round up the fiancé, he basically betrayed a member, almost a member of his family. He is done. He can't go back to his village. He can't go back to his study. He was studying in Lviv at that time. So he becomes, as I write in my book, the secret police becomes his family.
And he is sent to Kiev. He is trained for two years. sent to East Germany, into Berlin, and becomes an assassin. They sent him across the border to Western Germany, to Munich, which was the headquarter of Different organizations, anti-Soviet organizations, Ukrainian and Russian and Georgian and so on and so forth. And he kills two leaders of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists.
And he is sent to Kiev. He is trained for two years. sent to East Germany, into Berlin, and becomes an assassin. They sent him across the border to Western Germany, to Munich, which was the headquarter of Different organizations, anti-Soviet organizations, Ukrainian and Russian and Georgian and so on and so forth. And he kills two leaders of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists.
And he is sent to Kiev. He is trained for two years. sent to East Germany, into Berlin, and becomes an assassin. They sent him across the border to Western Germany, to Munich, which was the headquarter of Different organizations, anti-Soviet organizations, Ukrainian and Russian and Georgian and so on and so forth. And he kills two leaders of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists.
one editor of the newspaper, and eventually he kills Bandera. He does that with the new weapon, a spray pistol, that eventually makes it into the Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun. And that whole episode is a little bit reshaped, but it is not in the film, but it is in the novel itself. And Dan later has a change of mind under the influence of his German fiancée and then wife.