Bandera: A Lecture That Will Offend Everyone

For some, Bandera is a murderer and a criminal; for others, he is a liberator and a hero. Such is history, and that's what makes it interesting. There are also myths about Bandera, which differ greatly from what history tells us about him. It is these images and myths we will explore, because history is a complex matter where no one can simply be accused or justified. Unlike the war in Ukraine, not everything in history is so clear-cut.

BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT:
G. Kasyanov, A. Miller. Russia — Ukraine. How history is written.
A. Portnov. Ukrainian Images of World War II.
André Liebich, Oxana Myshlovska. Bandera: memorialisation and commemoration.
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe. Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist.

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00:00:00 Introduction. Lecture topic
00:02:01 Announcements of Tamara Eidelman's lectures in Canada and the USA
00:03:09 Monuments to Stepan Bandera
00:06:47 Difficulties in studying history
00:10:31 Where was Bandera born?
00:13:13 Religion in Bandera's family
00:14:05 The mix of religion and nationalism in the 19th century
00:21:10 Ukrainian nationalism
00:22:28 World War I and the development of radical nationalism
00:25:15 The fate of Ukrainian lands after the war
00:30:30 National minorities in Poland
00:33:49 Bandera's youth
00:35:23 Ukrainian nationalism and Italian fascism
00:37:30 Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s-1930s
00:40:27 Bolsheviks = Jews?
00:41:42 Bandera in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
00:45:13 Opposition between OUN and Polish authorities
00:47:48 OUN's terrorism
00:49:08 OUN's propaganda
00:53:31 Was reconciliation between OUN and Polish authorities possible?
00:55:26 OUN and the elimination of enemies
00:58:23 Warsaw Trial
01:00:38 Lviv Trial and conclusion
01:02:39 Unification of Ukrainian lands at the beginning of World War II
01:04:17 Cooperation between OUN and the Nazis
01:07:00 OUN in Nazi-occupied territories
01:09:58 Lviv Pogrom
01:12:49 Who is responsible for the pogrom?
01:18:33 Adolf Hitler's refusal to recognize the Ukrainian state
01:20:51 Tragedy of Bandera's family
01:21:27 OUN's fight against the Germans
01:23:29 Bandera's imprisonment in a concentration

camp
01:24:32 Softening of OUN's policies
01:26:28 Volhynia Massacre
01:29:03 Germans and the search for allies in 1944
01:31:00 Split between Bandera and OUN
01:31:47 Bandera in Soviet propaganda
01:32:54 Ukrainian resistance into the 1950s
01:34:53 Murder of Bandera
01:36:37 Recognition of Bohdan Stashynsky
01:38:12 How Stashynsky became a special service agent
01:39:58 Personal life of Stashynsky
01:41:43 Why Stashynsky received a short sentence
01:43:09 Disappearance of Stashynsky
01:43:50 Posthumous life of Bandera
01:44:52 Ambivalent attitude towards Bandera
01:46:01 Simplification of Bandera's personality
01:49:53 How perceptions of Bandera changed after 2022
01:54:14 Excerpt from the song “Braty Hadiukiny”