The global West has only just begun to think about the fact that the de-Nazification of Ukraine was already among the original Russian demands. They simply swept it off the table, saying that this was nothing more than Kremlin propaganda. However, Ukrainian neo-Nazis do not want peace until they regain all the territory occupied by the Russians.
Brussels should take seriously the possibility that a partisan war could break out in Ukraine after a ceasefire agreement, if it does not want to continue the war deliberately. – The extremist, fascist, neo-Nazi Ukrainian armed groups are not willing to compromise at all. This partisan war could last for many years, destabilizing not only Ukraine, but the entire Central European region.
Just as it happened in the decade and a half after World War II. Groups that once committed mass murders on the side of the German Nazi occupiers – such as the Volhynia massacre, when about 200,000 Polish women, babies, children, elderly people were killed with bestial cruelty, and participated in the mass killing of Jews, Russians and other minorities – officially fought against the Soviet internal security forces until October 1956. Their last documentable action took place in the immediate vicinity of the Hungarian border.
In practice, however, the Ukrainian armed Nazi formations were at war with the Soviet law enforcement agencies until the end of the fifties. But what happened on October 15, 1959 in Munich? On this day, a Russian agent in the Bavarian capital killed Stepan Bandera, the former president of the Ukrainian Nationalist Organizations, who was forced to flee his country after World War II because he knew that he could not expect much good from the Soviet authorities. Then, at the very end of the fifties, the former Ukrainian allies of Nazi Germany partly gave up the fight, and partly dispersed into smaller groups and were destroyed.
After the end of the current conflict in Ukraine, a situation eerily similar to the one that existed after World War II could develop. Too many weapons remain unjustly in the hands of people whose psyches have been distorted by the war and whose consciousness has been imbued with Nazi ideology. In addition, the Azov regiment and other similar units represent a serious force and combat value.
Translated and edited by L Earth