I was mostly asleep for this. He is kinda biased against Russia. He went into Stepan Bandera. Complicated.x
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I heard elsewhere how the NAZI movement took hold in modern Ukr. Most Ukr diaspora were not NAZIs but the NAZIs took over the Ukr diaspora organizations then some returned after USSR. They had an outsized influence in Ukr and things got heated in the 2000s. Further, they networked well inside the Ukr military often underground. An enthusiastic minority can have outsized influence. E.g. 1776 American revolutionaries and 1917 Bolsheviks. IMO NAZI stuff is likely illegal in Poland but not uncommon in Ukr.
I recall the source was on dispatches w rania khalek, He is some prof now in istanbul but taught in lvov for 5 years. Cyril somebody.