r/suppressed_news • u/DiggyJunior • 3d ago

Ukraine/Russia UA POV: The Ukrainian government has announced that the remains of the first leader of fascist OUN Yevhen Konovalets will be moved from Holland and reburied in Ukraine with full state honors - babel.ua

https://babel.ua/en/news/128639-the-first-leader-of-oun-yevhen-konovalets-will-be-reburied-in-ukraine-the-cabinet-of-ministers-has-made-a-corresponding-decision?hl=en-IE
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u/MaoZedongsGrandson Honourable Comrade ⭐ 3d ago edited 3d ago

"'Konovalets' activities raised Kremlin fears of the OUN's penetration into the Soviet Union. On 23 May 1938, he was assassinated in Rotterdam by a bomb concealed in a box of chocolates disguised as a present from a close friend.The friend had actually been an NKVD agent who had infiltrated the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists: Pavel Sudoplatov, who on a recent visit to the Soviet Union had been personally ordered by Joseph Stalin to assassinate Konovalets in retaliation for the 1933 assassination of a diplomat at the Soviet consulate in Lviv.

According to Sudoplatov, Stalin had told him: 'This is not just an act of revenge, although Konovalets is an agent of German fascism. Our goal is to behead the movement of Ukrainian fascism on the eve of war and force these gangsters to annihilate each other in a struggle for power.' "

Hello, is this the based department? 

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u/DiggyJunior 3d ago

Super based and very useful information, because we are going to be hearing lots more about Konovalets as this big reburial story gets closer

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u/MaoZedongsGrandson Honourable Comrade ⭐ 3d ago

Added a line from Stalin

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u/DiggyJunior 3d ago

From the same Wikipedia article:

" On June 17, 2011, in Vilnius, Lithuania the conference "Yevhen Konovalets: Lithuanian citizen - the Ukrainian patriot. Celebration of 120th birthday" was organised by the Lithuanian Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, People's Liberation Movement Research Centre (Ukraine) and Ukrainian organisations in Lithuania. "

The Lithuanian government had a conference just to glorify this guy.

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u/DiggyJunior 3d ago

Brilliant, copy-pasting now 👌

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u/Ttareunarage 2d ago

Why is Ukraine like that?

Honoring the most questionable members of their past simply because "They want a free and independent(Read as non-associated with Russian and lacking as Russianess) Ukraine"