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I grew up in western Ukraine and never heard of Bandera until russian propaganda started to spread his name around.  
Russia is doing everything in its power to start fighting between Ukraine and Ukrainian closest allies
There have to be better Ukrainians to honor than Bandera. It's a little sad that people hold on to him. 
I hope Ukraine allows Poland to build monuments and exhume mass graves from that time period. So many places in Western Ukraine either don't have any commemoration of the victims or just a small plaque the size of an index card. 
Hoping for a good future. >

Modern Ukraine is defined by it’s distrust for communists post-soviet-famine. This tends to mean that many of their “Heroes” are the opposite end of the spectrum; far-right anti-communists who are often aligned with, if not actively engaged in nazism. It’s a real problem, and the continued propogandistic denial of Ukraine’s far-right elements will only make the problem worse. The best way to prove russia wrong isn’t to pretend the Nazis don’t exist, it’s to get rid of them yourself. >

Vast majority of people in Ukraine does not consider Bandera a nazi. At least because he was a prisoner in a Nazi camp, fought commies and was killed by a commie. >

Doesn’t meant that the organization he was part of didn’t collaborate with the Nazis. Of course, many Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis when the invasion kicked off. It was only when the occupation truly began did the realize that the Nazis were far far worst then the Soviets. >

They were not even close to the commies and the atrocities Moscow did to Ukrainian people. Yes, Bandera’s organization did bad things. Perhaps the same way Croatians or Serbs did in the same time period. Not sure they still cherish their “heroes” of that time, but for Ukrainians Bandera is a fighter for liberty and that fact overcomes his atrocities in the minds of people. >

You know Ukraine has countless other historical figures who can be used as a role models and hailed as heroes. But for some odd reason, they rather choose literal fascist and war criminal. >

As well as many others do, especially US with their confederacy generals and leaders hailed as “heroes” in many states. Stop schooling others, we better know who are our historical figures. Russians riding our lands with red banners with hammer and sickle, portraits of Stalin and no one bats an eye. But should Ukrainians place a portrait of Bandera suddenly everyone loses their minds. >

Lol. Only southern fools who dream of a new confederacy hail southern Generals and leaders as hero’s. To the rest of us they are traitors. >

I think the Polish see him as a “fascist and Nazi collaborator“ because that’s what he was… >

Seriously, we all know that the Russians hate(d) the Nazi Germany, but while it is tempting to provoke them with that, the Ukrainians MUST prioritize their PR over their desire to poke at the enemy.
No more ~~"Iron Crosses"~~  Balkenkreuze on the sides of vehicles either. JFC guys, I know that grunts gonna grunt, but your food and ammo is on the line... >

Iron Cross is not a nazi symbol, it's an official symbol of German armed forces. >

Noted; thank you for informing me. >

Have you considered becoming informed before commenting? >

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Why would I think that I needed to become informed when I was unaware that I was ignorant regarding this fact?
Have you considered that a perfect understanding regarding any given topic is nigh impossible, and that people are quite often totally unaware of gaps in their knowledge, and thus don't even realize that they need to educate themselves? >

In defense of his criticism: this fact is discussed under the "later use" section of the very Wikipedia article that you linked. So we know that you had an opportunity to see the information, but you didn't actually read the article you posted as an example for others.
I think in that case, it is fair to criticize you. But, it could have been done in a less snarky way. >

I did not actually know about that wikipedia article originally. I just thought it was a variation of the Iron Cross. (Hence, the line-out.) I went back and edited my original comment to reflect information that was shared by another user, in order to clarify what I meant, and to better educate others. >

Well, that's fair. It's good to indicate what was edited for that reason. >

This is a disgrace to Ukraine... But well I will still support them as a Polish person >

Ugh. Russian propaganda machine will be happy to utilize that. >

As a Ukrainian this is a tough one for me. Bandera certainly did a lot of Nazi Germany level stuff, which is obviously bad and should be rightfully condemned, but on the other hand Ukrainian people were used by ussr just like Chechen people are used by russia now (cannon fodder) plus ussr felt danger coming from Ukrainian uprising so they did things like holodomor. Nazi Germany offered help in a fight for Ukrainian independence so Bandera sided with them. There was little to no choice, but in the end the choice Bandera made was wrong and modern Ukraine has to acknowledge this fact and move on.