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Jean-Louis Panné: "On Bandera, we must distinguish between the facts and their use by Putin"

2022-08-12T13:33:17.119Z


FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - The controversial figure of Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist of the 30s and 40s, is used by Putin to disqualify all Ukrainians, explains the historian.


Jean-Louis Panné is a historian and former editor at Gallimard).

He collaborated in

the Black Book of Communism,

directed by Stéphane Courtois (Bouquins Éditions, 1997) and in particular the author of a remarkable biography,

Boris Souvarine: the first disenchanted with communism

(Robert Laffont, 1993), by

Jan Karski, the “novel” and history

, (Pascal Galode, 2010) and

Marseillaise

s (Buchet-Chastel, 2018).

Vladimir Putin, anxious to justify his aggression against Ukraine, often alludes to Stepan Bandera, archetype, according to him, of the collaboration of Ukrainians with the Nazis.

Here again, it is for him to impose his truncated and manipulated historical vision.

What is really this famous Bandera and the collaboration of Ukrainians with the Nazi occupier?

Since the collapse of the tsarist empire, Ukrainian nationalists had never ceased to demand the independence of Ukraine, a project particularly difficult to implement insofar as Ukraine was…

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Source: lefigaro

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