#Thread of Ukrainian diaspora nationalist monuments and memorials glorifying Nazi collaborators, most of them built on behalf of the fascistic Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera (OUN-B)
Let's start with 🇨🇦. Many Canadians were bewildered and outraged when I posted this that there could be a monument in their country glorifying Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. Well, there's more where that came from...
In the same Oakville cemetery, there's a monument to Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) veterans. The ostensibly "anti-Nazi" UPA ethnic cleansed tens of thousands of Poles, & according to Ivan Katchanovski, a majority of UPA leaders were Nazi collaborators. (academia.edu)
According to Per Rudling, this bust of Roman Shukhevych—a German auxiliary police battalion captain turned UPA Supreme Commander—in front of the OUN-B affiliated Ukrainian Youth Complex was "the first Ukrainian public memorial erected in Edmonton [1973]."(academia.edu)
The "Heroes' Monument" (est. 1962) in Ulster County, NY is the most important 🇺🇦 nationalist memorial in the US & one of the most important in the 🇺🇦 diaspora, featuring busts of Symon Petliura, Yevhen Konovalets, Roman Shukhevych, and Stepan Bandera.
On June 30, 2011, on the 70th anniversary of the OUN-B's declaration of a short-lived pro-Nazi government in German-occupied Lviv, another "Heroes' Monument" was unveiled at the Ukrainian American Youth Association summer camp in Baraboo, Wisconsin. (Shukhevych and Bandera=OUN-B)
Apparently there is even a "Heroes' Monument" in Buenos Aires
20 minutes away from the original "Heroes' Monument" in Ellenville, New York, one can find a "church-memorial" in Kerhonkson built by a Nazi collaborator and war criminal who led the Bukovinian Battalion, which likely participated in the Babi Yar massacre.
Also nearby is another monument in a cemetery dedicated to the OUN-B, UPA, and the OUN-UPA's Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council, the "Foreign Representation" of which worked for the CIA for almost the entirety of the Cold War.
At the Ukrainian cemetery in South Bound Brook, NJ, there's a special section for UPA vets with a monument for them. When I visited it last year, I realized many of those buried there were Nazi collaborators who worked with the CIA. Wrote this about that: @mossrobeson/a-top-priority-cia-project-and-a-ukrainian-memorial-in-new-jersey-79963c251b46" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="event.stopPropagation()">medium.com
There is another UPA monument at another Ukrainian cemetery in Parma, Ohio, which is incidentally where John Demjanjuk lived
The Kerhonkson, NY "church-memorial" plaque quotes Oleh Olzhych, a leader of the OUN-M, which like the OUN-B was pro-Nazi and collaborated with the Germans during WW2. There is a bust of Olzhych at the OUN-M affiliated "Ukrainian Homestead" in Lehighton, PA, unveiled in 1980.
I think that's all of the Ukrainian nationalist memorials glorifying Nazi collaborators that I know of in the western hemisphere. I'll update this thread if I missed any. Now for Western Europe, where I'm almost certainly missing some...
There's a mound with a large cross at the OUN-B affiliated Ukrainian Youth Association summer camp in Derby, England, which has long been the site of events glorifying the OUN-UPA. (You can see of a glimpse of the mound at ~11 seconds of this video: youtube.com)
Not sure if the private Stepan Bandera museum in London counts as a memorial
Bandera's grave in Munich is a site of pilgrimage for Ukrainian nationalists from around the world, particularly to mark the anniversary of his assassination in 1959 youtube.com
Next up, Austria, where there's a number of memorials and monuments dedicated to veterans of the Galicia (i.e. Ukrainian) Division of the Waffen-SS, but it's gonna take a bit so I'm posting the rest now
Loading suggestions...