Ukraine on Fire Page #2

on may 7 of 1945

germany unconditionally surrendered

and ukraine remained a part of the USSR

peace after the second world war was short-lived

the usa and the USSR

nations who allied together

along with england against the nazi

later tragically became foes

as the cold war began

the era of political and military tension

between the usa and the USSR

lasted for nearly 45 years

keeping humanity under constant threat

of nuclear war.

in this battle the usa never took its

sights off ukraine because of its importance

us intelligences were closely cooperating

with ukrainian nationalistic organizations

as a valuable source of counter-intelligence

against the USSR

cia documents just recently declassified

show strong ties between us intelligence

and ukrainian nationalists since 1946

from the cia reports it's obvious that

they weren't mistaken about the ukrainian nationalists

and stepan bandera

according to the oss report of september 1945

bandera had earned a fierce reputation

for conducting a reign of terror

during world war II

after the second world war

bandera and other nationalist leaders

fled to europe where the cia covered them

the cia later informed the immigration

and naturalization service it had concealed

stepan bandera and other ukrainians from soviets

the operations involving ukrainians

continued for many years

the nurenberg trials of 1945 and 1946

had put the political, economic and military

leaders of fascist germany to justice

showing the whole world the face of nazism

and the crimes they committed

but the ukrainian nazi were spared of such fate

and some were even granted amnesty by the cia

by 1951 the agency excused the illegal

activities of oun's security branch

in the name of cold war necessity

in 1949 m , the man responsible

for the mass massacres in wolyn

was moved to the usa where he died in 1989

without ever being investigated for his crimes

protecting the ukrainian nationalist m

the cia stopped criminal investigation of the

immigration and naturalization service

perhaps bandera lost his use to the usa

or maybe the KGB agency outplayed the cia

but in 1959 stepan bandera was killed in munich

where he was hiding under the name of stepan popel

i0t's fair to say that by sheer coincidence

bandera became the main symbol of

ukrainian nationalism because he wasn't neither

its only nor its most powerful leader

dmitriy dontsov was the father of the far right

totalitarian doctrine in ukraine

andriy melnik the leader of another fraction of the oun

roman shuhevich the leader of the ukrainian rebel's army

and many others

bandera's dangerous ideology

suppressed by the soviet government

but supported by external forces

was never completely eliminated

the seeds of ukrainian nationalism

were passed from generation to generation

unfortunately not many years had gone by

before they once again grew

in 1954 ukraine's territory was expanded once more

when nikita khrushev, leader of the USSR

and an ukrainian himself

generously gave the crimean region to ukraine

historians will debate for many years

about this being legal and 60 years later

another series of dramatic events

were taking place in crimea

reporter:
the eyes of the world are on ukraine

as the crisis in crimea continues

several dozens of well armed people

have captured the government in crimea

should ukraine just shrug its shoulders

and say 'ok, crimea is lost'?

narrator:
the old argument would repeat once again

the cold war was going up and down

while both rivals were obsessed

with growing their military capacity

the turning point came with the perestroyka

when the USSR got its new leader

michael gorbachev, in the middle of 1980

perestroyka means restructuring towards

democratization and modernization

it certainly had a positive impact

on the international situation

reporter:
astonishing news from berlin

where the german authorities announced

that the berlin wall doesn't mean anything anymore

narrator:
but inside the USSR

the weakening of the kremlin control had different consequences

the ukrainian nationalistic political organization

called narodniy ruh or the national movement

was established in 1989

viacheslav chernovol: i congratulate all of us in this

remarkable event, the creation of our movement

narrator:
they advocated for independence of ukraine

from the USSR and became the starting point

for many of the ukrainian nationalistic

and neo-nazi leaders

in 1991 one of them, oleg tyagnibok

founded 'c'

or 'freedom' radical nationalistic party

openly following the good old principles of bandera

oleg tyagnibok:
they were prepared and fought against russians

fought against germans, fought against kikes

and all other scum trying to take our ukrainian country from us

narrator:
purge ukraine from jews and russians

ukraine for ukrainians and so on

these statements got him the 5th place

on the list of top 10 anti-semites in the world

according to the simon wiesenthal center

oleg tyagnibok:
hail to ukraine crowd: hail to the heroes

narrator:
sadly such statements attracted numerous followers

dmitriy yarosh founded another extreme right organization

't' or 'trident' in 1994

in april of 2013 yarosh became the assistant to a deputy from udar

or strike party lead by vitaly klitchko

later that year he founded another far right ukrainian neo-nazi group

the right sector

andriy parubiy would soon lead the whole army

of the ultra-nationalistic warriors

and the torch marches will once again

lighting the streets of ukrainian cities

[heroes never die]

the world drastically changed in august of 1991

when the USSR de-facto ceased to exist

and many new political formations appeared on the world map

ukraine one of them

for the first time in modern history

it was truly independent and all on itself

reporter:
the red flag above the kremlin

came down today when president resigned

ending 70 years of communist rule in the USSR

narrator:
the years after the fall of the USSR

were known as crazy 90s on all

post-soviet territories

reporter:
he's leaving behind 15 individual states

that share only a disaster economy

and an uncertain future

narrator:
after the planned economy of the USSR

the free market changed the rules of the game

new businesses emerged quickly

and soon the first oligarchs appeared

a former country without class division

became divided into unequal parts

a few chosen ones became rich

while the rest had to fight to survive

putin:
right after gaining independence

a wild privatization of the state property began

lowering the life quality of the people

right after the independence

and what is interesting, whoever was coming to power

nothing changed for the people

a constant robbery of the people was happening

a constant robbery of the ukrainian people

of course the people grew tired of this

of this growing corruption

narrator:
the disappointment of the people

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