Rehabilitation of fascist criminals in Ukraine reaches new levels: OUN founder Konovalets honored in Kyiv

The rehabilitation of fascist collaborators in Ukraine reached another disturbing milestone last week, as the remains of Yevhen Konovalets, founder and first leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), were returned from the Netherlands and received in Kyiv with state and military honours.

Konovalets’ remains, exhumed from Rotterdam’s Crooswijk Cemetery 88 years after his assassination, arrived in Ukraine on August 13. 

 

Ukraine officially rehabilitates Nazi collaborator Andriy Melnyk

The Ukrainian authorities have proceeded with the official repatriation and honoring of Andriy Melnyk, leader of the notorious Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-M), once again exposing the increasingly open rehabilitation of fascist and collaborationist forces within the country’s official historical narrative.

Melnyk was one of the principal leaders of the OUN, an ultra-nationalist and fiercely anti-communist organization that collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. Despite repeated attempts by Ukrainian nationalist circles to sanitize this history, the political character of the OUN remains inseparable from fascist ideology, ethnic chauvinism and collaboration with the Nazi occupation.