Yaroslav Stetsko: Leader of proNazi , 1941 Whitewashing Stetsko’s Ukraine Ukrainian ethnonationalists deny OUN(B) Etobicoke links to Nazism. For example, in its article Ontario 2012 on the 1941 Act of Ukrainian Statehood, the Encyclopedia of Ukraine does not mention the OUN-B declaration’s total allegiance to

bit.ly/Stetsko100 Hitler, the Nazis and “the Allied German Army against Moscovite occupation.” In- stead, it claims this is communist propagan- da by saying: “Soviet authorities ... painted them [the OUN-B] in the blackest terms as the perfidious undertakings of evil collabo- rators riding on the coattails of the Nazis.”4 The proBandera-Stetsko League of Celebrating Stetsko’s 100th anniversary also used the canard of at a Ukrainian cultural centre, members of Nazi-Soviet equivalency to whitewash the the Ukrainian Youth Assoc. march with OUN-B’s proNazi proclamation, by saying: flags of Ukraine and Bandera’s fascist army when Ukraine was sandwiched between two likeminded, murderous invaders, So- n June 30, 1941, one week after Inciting ethnic cleansing viet Russia from the east and Nazi Ger- their Operation-Barbarossa inva- That same day, OUN(B) notices plastered all many from the west ... and Osion of the USSR, the Nazi forces over incited to ethnically Yaroslav Stetsko, gave the nation hope for occupied Lviv, Ukraine. Marching with cleanse their newly-created nation state: a better, free, democratic future by bravely 5 them was the Ukrainian Nachtigall Battal- Do not throw away your weapons now. declaring independence.... ion. It was allied to Stepan Bandera’s fas- Take them in your hands. Destroy the en- References and notes cist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists emy .… People! Know! Moscow, Poland, 1. Samostiyna Ukraina, July 10, 1941, p.1, the Hungarians, the Jews are your enemies. cited in John Armstrong, Ukrainian Na- (OUN-B) which immediately proclaimed Destroy them! tionalism, 1963, pp.79-80. bit.ly/UkraineAct an “independent” Ukraine and gave its to- Know! Your leadership is the Leader- 2. Ibid., p.81. tal support to . Bandera’s ship of Ukrainian Nationalists, is the OUN. deputy, Yaroslav Stetsko, was declared Your Leader is Stepan Bandera. Your goal 3. Nationalist placard posted in Lviv on 30 June 1941 incites pogroms bit.ly/OUNBsigns prime minister, while Nachtigall command- is an Independent United Ukrainian State. Your path is the path of the Ukrainian Na- 4. Michael Savaryn, “Proclamation of Ukrainian er and OUN(B) leader, Roman Shukhevych, statehood, 1941,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, became the deputy defence minister. tional Revolution, the path of armed strug- gle, the path of the OUN. Glory to Ukraine! 1993. bit.ly/ActUkraine Glory to the Heroes! Glory to the Leader!3 5. Ihor Dlaboha, “75 Years Ago Ukrainian Nation Ukraine’s fascist state, 1941 re-established Statehood,” Jun. 29, 2016. The 1941 Act of Ukrainian Statehood glori- After unleashing mass murder in Lviv, the bit.ly/Ukraine-State fied what it called their “bloody battle with Nazis and their Ukrainian collabo- According On May 8, 1939, Novyi the Moscovite-Bolshevik enslavers” and their rators went on to slaugh- to Stetsko shliakh [the official pub- “energetic battle for freedom.” Vowing to ter four million Soviet ci- lication of the Ukrainian “continue to fight with the Allied German vilians in Ukraine alone. National Federation of Army against Moscovite occupation for a sov- “I consider Marxism to Canada] featured an arti- ereign and united State and a in be a product of the Jew- cle by Yaroslav Stetsko. In the whole world,” they declared support for ish mind, which has been it he insisted that Jews Hitler’s goal of a “new order in Europe and applied in the Muscovite were “nomads and para- the world,” and said that their: prison of peoples by the Mus- sites,” a nation of ‘swindlers, newly formed Ukrainian state will work The Fascist Canard of closely with the National-Socialist Greater covite-Asiatic people with the materialists and egotists,” “de- Judeo-Bolshevik void of heroism ....” Jews, Stet- Germany, under the leadership of its leader assistance of Jews. Moscow and Equivalency which is forming a new or- Jewry are Ukraine’s greatest enemies sko lectured on, were only interest- der in Europe and the world and is help- and bearers of corruptive Bolshevik inter- ed in “personal profit,” found “pleasure in ... the ing the Ukrainian People to free itself from national ideas. Although I consider Moscow, basest instincts,” and were determined “to corrupt Moscovite occupation.1 which in fact held Ukraine in captivity, and the heroic culture of warrior nations.” Ukraini- Stetsko’s public radio broadcast of this ans, Stetsko proclaimed, being “the first people not Jewry, to be the main and decisive ene- proclamation received immediate support in Europe to understand the corrupting work of my, I nonetheless fully appreciate the unde- from the top leaders of the Ukrainian Ortho- Jewry,” had separated themselves from the Jews niably harmful and hostile role of the Jews, dox and Ukrainian Greek Catholic churches. centuries ago, to maintain “the purity of their spir- who are helping Moscow to enslave Ukraine. The latter’s Archbishop, Andrey Sheptytsky, ituality and culture.” Stetsko also put Jews at the wrote a pastoral letter which stated: I therefore support the destruction of the centre of an international conspiracy by suggest- We greet the victorious German Army as Jews and the expedience of bringing Ger- ing that Jewish capitalists and Jewish Communists deliverer from the enemy. We render our man methods of exterminating Jewry to were collaborating to promote Jewish interests. obedient homage to the government which Ukraine, barring their assimilation....” has been erected. We recognize Mr. Source: Orest Martynowych, “Sympathy for the Devil: Yaroslav Stetsko as Head of State ... of Source: Yaroslav Stetsko, “My Biography,” July The Attitude of Ukrainian War Veterans in Canada to the Ukraine.2 1941. bit.ly/StetskoBio Nazi Germany & the Jews, 1933-39.” bit.ly/Stetsko1939 Spring 2021 Issue # 70 Press for Conversion! 49