INDG 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Stepan Bandera, Euromaidan
9 Jun 2018
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Lecture 24: Ukraine and Hungary
Internally fractured memory regime
Ukraine and Russia have a long and intertwined history
Los of movement of people and borders
Contemporary Ukraine has Russian speakers and Ukrainian speakers, mixed religion,
rural/urban division
Leads to multi layered memory conflicts
Conflict about Ukrainian insurgent army
As the Soviet Union starts to fall apart, you have memory of Bandera becomes contested
Insurgent army emerges during WW2
Remanence of inter war organization (orga of Ukrainian nationalist)
Bandera joined OUN in the 30s
The insurgent army does collaborate w the Nazis but Bandera ends up spending years in a
concentration camps
He leads campaign against Soviet Union in Western Ukraine
He has a complicated history
A Soviet KGB officer manages to kill him
Gets reflected in symbolic landscape
A lot of Ukrainian cities take down soviet monuments and at same time kepes bandera
monument
STEPAN BANDERA MONUMENTS
In January 2009, proliferation of monument to him in Western Ukraine
Political conflict between different parties
Pro Russia/pro nationalist
In 2010 Ivanovo Frankivsk comes back to power and overturns decision to give veterans
benefits to UPO fighters
EUROMAIDAN
Lenin statue falls in Kiev in 2013
CRIMEAN REFERENDUM POSTER MARCH 2014
Way Russian government and lots of political opponents have characterized government that
came to power after end of Euromaidan
Use WW2 imagery and symbolism to equate regime with fascist and Nazis
DONETSK, MAY 9, 2015
Two regions end up declaring themselves independent with the help of Russia
As part of this process, Russian symbolism and interpretation of patriotic war becomes
overwhelming
Clash of WW2 memory regime in Ukraine used by different political forces in the country to
position themselves in regard to history
Used by Russia government to put forward its own view of patriotic war and where Ukraine
fits in it
MEMORY POLITICS IN HUNGARY
1) The 1920 Treaty of Trianon and territorial loss (ended WW1 for Hungary)
Big hunks of Hungary end up in other countries
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Document Summary
Ukraine and russia have a long and intertwined history. Contemporary ukraine has russian speakers and ukrainian speakers, mixed religion, rural/urban division. As the soviet union starts to fall apart, you have memory of bandera becomes contested. Remanence of inter war organization (orga of ukrainian nationalist) The insurgent army does collaborate w the nazis but bandera ends up spending years in a concentration camps. He leads campaign against soviet union in western ukraine. A soviet kgb officer manages to kill him. A lot of ukrainian cities take down soviet monuments and at same time kepes bandera monument. In january 2009, proliferation of monument to him in western ukraine. In 2010 ivanovo frankivsk comes back to power and overturns decision to give veterans benefits to upo fighters. Way russian government and lots of political opponents have characterized government that came to power after end of euromaidan. Use ww2 imagery and symbolism to equate regime with fascist and nazis.
