{"id":178606,"date":"2018-10-15T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/15\/a-commentary-on-stepan-bandera\/"},"modified":"2018-10-15T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:16:00","slug":"a-commentary-on-stepan-bandera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/15\/a-commentary-on-stepan-bandera\/","title":{"rendered":"A Commentary on Stepan Bandera"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today in Munich, I corrected the grave of Ukrainian Nazi Stepan Bandera, to comply with German law, which forbids shrines to Nazis. <\/p>\n<p>Corrected.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bandera?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bandera<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StepanBandera?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StepanBandera<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nazism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nazism<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M6vH14NPEQ\">pic.twitter.com\/M6vH14NPEQ<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Graham W Phillips (@GrahamWP_UK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrahamWP_UK\/status\/1051742963162861568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not going to discuss the legality of pulling down flags from the grave of Stepan Bandera, or the wisdom of such an action, but his sign was the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Stepan Bandera was a Nazi sympathizer, and he was directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands Poles and Jews.<\/p>\n<p>That he is considered a national icon in the new Ukraine is a blot on history and decency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Munich, I corrected the grave of Ukrainian Nazi Stepan Bandera, to comply with German law, which forbids shrines to Nazis. Corrected.#Bandera #StepanBandera #Nazism pic.twitter.com\/M6vH14NPEQ \u2014 Graham W Phillips (@GrahamWP_UK) October 15, 2018 I am not going to discuss the legality of pulling down flags from the grave of Stepan Bandera, or the wisdom &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[441,592,389,401],"class_list":["post-178606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-former-soviet-union","tag-genocide","tag-history","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}