'Together we can create a nice community of rightists'
“Ukrainians in Ohio are raising their children in the spirit of Ukrainian nationalism! Way to go!” recently declared the leader of OUN-B, or the Banderite faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, after seeing a video by 18-year-old Yuriy Kmiotek from Parma, Ohio.
But Kmiotek, a self-described “paleoconservative” whose hobbies include dressing up as a perpetrator of the “Holocaust by Bullets,” is no typical Ukrainian American teenager, even if he grew up in the adopted hometown of Ukrainian Nazi death camp guard Ivan Demjanjuk.
Sitting in front of a scarf with the face of Stepan Bandera, Kmiotek once explained in a Youtube video that one of his political inspirations is neo-Nazi incel Nick Fuentes. Kmiotek is obviously gunning to be the OUN-B point person in the Cleveland area, where the Banderite network has mostly died off. Presumably that explains why he is being encouraged to go for it.
The history of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in the United States is older than most would guess. In 1934, the Young Ukrainian Nationalists of Cleveland took pledges from Omelian Senyk, a Ukrainian terrorist leader, to “do their duty toward Ukraine according to the principles of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists,” which was then just five years old. A month earlier, the OUN had killed the Interior Minister of Poland, and Senyk was allegedly involved in ordering the assassination that coincided with his fundraising campaign in North America. (more...)
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