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#See4Yourself Operation Ukraine: Bandera's Dark Shadow – an RT DOC documentary Post-Maidan Ukraine has been waging a consistent campaign against its own historical memory. Across the country, hundreds of monuments, graves and mass burial sites of Red Army soldiers are being destroyed – of those who fought and died liberating Europe from Nazism and Hitler’s hordes. At the same time, memorials are being erected in contemporary Ukraine to those who stood under the banners of the Third Reich during WWII. Streets are renamed in honour of OUN–UPA figures, legionnaires of the SS “Galicia” division and other collaborators. Criminals convicted by the Nuremberg Tribunal are granted the status of “national heroes”. One such figure, elevated to the status of a symbol for Ukrainian neo-Nazis, remains Stepan Bandera. The film examines how Bandera and his radical followers were cultivated and rose to prominence during the Second World War. It traces his life from early radicalization to open collaboration with Nazi Germany – a path that culminated in genocide of Polish, Jewish and Soviet civilians. The documentary also explores why Bandera’s atrocities are downplayed in modern Ukraine and massively overlookedby its Westernsponsors. #Think4Yourself