Yuschenko.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stepan_Bandera_in_Lviv.JPG

There are attempts to "soften" the images of Far Right movements and leaders such as Bandara.

"A slogan put forth by the Bandera group and recorded in the July 16, 1941 Einsatzgruppen report stated: "Long live Ukraine without Jews, Poles and Germans" ( Philip Friedman. Ukrainian-Jewish Relations During the Nazi Occupation. In Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust. (1980) New York: Conference of Jewish Social Studies. pg. 181)

It is important to understand this history, not in order to justify but in able to understand the complexities of the situation in Ukraine, and to understand the actions of th Eastern and Southern regions. They have been watching the buildup of Neo-Nazi's in western Ukraine and the opposition parties acceptance of the far right into their coallation. In addition, even parties like "Fatherland" (tymonshenko's party and the party of the interim leader) have been sympathetic to controversial historical and current figures and elements. That placed them, understandably on the defensive and in fear of the turn of power in Kiev.

All my posts are is to help people achieve empathy, because simplistic and incomplete coverage eliminates empathy and in the end can create catastrophies. DU should be a place where empathy is highly valued over narrative.

The OUN is the organization that evolved into today's Svoboda political party in Ukraine.

They were behind the 1941 pogrom of Poles and Jews in Lviv (Lwów - Polish Lemberg - German) as well as atrocities throughout the area of present day western Ukraine.

http://oun-b.livejournal.com/14552.html