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Lou wrote: "Bandera was a very different phenomena and put simply without Stalinism there would have been no Bandera." I am not so sure about this. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was active in Eastern Poland before WWII were they engaged in their share of violent ethnic cleansing that had nothing to do with Stalin or the famine within the Soviet Union. It is incorrect to state that radical Ukrainian nationalism of this period was identical to Nazism, but there were was some ideological overlap. Bandera's followers believed that Jews were not Ukrainians and were to blame for the suffering of the Ukrainian people and the lack of a Ukrainian state. This strain of virulent right wing nationalism predated Stalin and has certainly outlived him. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
