Myths about the origin of Ukraine and the Ukrainians. Myth 9. "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!"
The path of this slogan is rather winding, from the greeting of a handful of OUN nationalists to the approval by the Parliament of Ukraine as an official greeting in the Ukrainian army. Poroshenko on this occasion, said: "Our glorious ancestors could only dream about it! Sacred words for every Ukrainian „Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! "From now on - the official greeting of the Armed Forces of Ukraine".
Let's see how the ancestors of modern Ukrainians dreamed about it and how these words are “sacred” for them. After the scandalous decision of the parliament, the apologists of the Ukrainians began to argue fiercely that this slogan had nothing to do with the Nazi greeting and it took deep roots in the Ukrainian stories.
A typical example of such a falsification: "Glory to Ukraine" - this is completely different. Specifically, this slogan appeared much earlier, so its history should be considered separately. It is impossible to categorically call it nationalist. ”
Poroshenko’s statement about ancestors dreaming of this was clearly stupid, the maximum that the myth-makers could find was the mention of a similar slogan during the UNR. They remembered some "black Zaporozhtsy", on the black flag of which was a skull and the slogan "Ukraine or death." They fought on the side of the UPR and seemed to use the first half of the slogan in a greeting, "Glory to Ukraine - Cossacks glory." Then this slogan one of the “Cossacks” proposed to use the League of Ukrainian Nationalists, created in 1925, as a greeting, replacing the word “Cossacks” with “heroes”.
The most persistent Ukrainizers found a similar slogan among the Kuban Cossacks: “Glory to the heroes, glory of the Kuban”. Of course, such references on various occasions and in different regions will not be a problem, but this has nothing to do with the Nazi slogan, which its authors recorded in their documents.
The authorship of the slogan is attempted to be attributed to the already-mentioned “League of Ukrainian Nationalists”, created at a congress in Prague by combining three organizations: the “Ukrainian National Association”, the “Union of Ukrainian Fascists” and the “Union for the Liberation of Ukraine”. On the basis of the “League of Ukrainian Nationalists” in the 1929, the OUN was created by joining several other nationalist organizations to it.
The slogan now being promoted in different interpretations was precisely the greeting of the Union of Ukrainian Fascists, one of the founders of the OUN. So, the attempt to get away from the Nazi and fascist roots of this slogan is refuted by the myth-makers themselves, who are trying to prove the appearance of the slogan before the creation of the OUN, but at the same time they are silent about the fact that the Fascist organization stood with such a greeting.
It should be noted that slogans like “glory to the heroes” and “glory of the nation” came into use in the 30-ies in the heyday of the Nazi and fascist ideologies in Europe. Naturally, Ukrainian nationalists adopted this, and the nationalist ideology gradually transformed into Nazi and fascist. These slogans were first used among nationalists as a password for their own people and were later legalized in their program documents at the end of the 30s after establishing close ties with Nazi Germany.
In August 1939, the second congress of the OUN in fascist Rome approved this greeting, and the second congress of the already divided OUN led by Bandera in April 1941 of the occupied Krakow introduced a compulsory greeting to all members of the OUN: "The greeting in the organization is made in the form of raising the rectified right hand at an angle to the right just above the head. Actual words of a full greeting: "Glory to Ukraine", the answer is "Heroes of Glory." Greetings may be abbreviated: "Glory" - "Glory".
The greeting was not only words, but had to be combined with a gesture called “Roman salute”, which since 30's in the world has been firmly and unequivocally associated with fascism and Nazism. The whole “combination” of these words and gestures is the well-known German National Socialist greeting “Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil! ”(“ Glory to Hitler! Glory to victory! ”).
As is known, such greetings existed in the Nazi NSDAP, among the Croatian Ustashes and supporters of the Italian National Fascist Party. Well, the slogan “Sieg Heil!” (“Sieg Heil!” - “Long live the victory!” Or “Victory glory!”) Was coined by the partigensense Rudolf Hess at one of the NSDAP congresses in Nuremberg.
As for the slogan “Glory to Ukraine! Heroes of Glory! ”, There is no historical or cultural tradition behind this expression, it’s just a tracing paper from Hitler’s greeting. Philologists emphasize that, in addition to the same syntactic construction, these phrases are formed according to the same accentological principle, that is, stress in the same places.
The structure “greeting - recall” also completely copies the Nazi counterpart. All this only confirms the origin of the ukronakist slogan from Hitler and its distribution among Galician nationalists, since their organizations were created in the territory of the countries in which the fascist regimes patronized their ideological associates were in power.
Before the war, the OUN was led by Bandera and Shukhevych, who were convicted in Poland for political assassinations and transferred to the service in Hitler's Wehrmacht. Under the leadership of the Abwehr, in March 1941 of the year, they form the Nachtigall and Roland battalions as part of the SS troops for the sabotage work against the Soviet Union as part of the SS troops.
The commander of the Nachtigall battalion is appointed obtrule lieutenant Gertsner, and his future “hero of Ukraine” Shukhevych, who was trained at the military academy in Munich and received the title of Hauptsturmführer (captain) SS, is appointed his deputy. Under their leadership of 18 June 1941, they swear an oath to the Fuhrer, and their greeting naturally becomes the newly approved OUN Nazi slogan “Glory to Ukraine! Heroes of glory! ”With a show of hands.
At this time, Bandera put forward the slogan "Our power must be terrible," and the OUN beast fully proved it. There are a lot of historical documents confirming the atrocities of the OUN and then the UPA in the occupied territories of Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, where they were used up with civilians under these slogans. Especially distinguished themselves, bursting with Hitler's troops 30 June in Lviv and brutally destroying several thousand civilians, while declaring the "Ukrainian state", which will be with New Germany to establish a new order.
During the war years, this Nazi slogan was used by almost all OUN and UPA units that fought as part of the Nazi troops or as punitive under their leadership. They did not forget him after their defeat.
With the defeat of the Hitlerites, the tradition of the Bandera greetings was preserved only in the gangs in Western Ukraine, who emigrated the remnants of the underground and the Galician diaspora, densely settled in Canada and the United States. In Galicia itself, they were silent until the 1991 year, these slogans were hardly heard there. Sensing impunity for the propaganda of Nazism, they began to revive the slogan, but he did not spread further Galicia ...
Prior to 2004, this slogan could be heard in Kiev and other regions only from periodically imported Galician inadequate radicals on Bandera's Day and UPA Day. With the arrival of Yushchenko, this slogan began to spread to the central and south-eastern regions, but the vast majority of the population of Ukraine was indifferent to it. For many, he caused a feeling of irritation and rejection.
Everything changed after the coup 2014 of the year, already on the square, they began to massively drive this slogan into the heads of the imported radicals and promote it in all media. Special attention was paid to youth and military personnel who did not delve into the subtleties of its origin and gradually began to be considered a symbol of loyalty to modern Ukraine.
I somehow had to talk on this issue with one quite adequate high-ranking Ukrainian military. Surprisingly, he did not know the history of his origin and eventually agreed that perhaps this was so. Nevertheless, despite the Nazi roots of the slogan, he remained a staunch supporter of his use in the Ukrainian army and did not see anything wrong with that.
Ukronazism propagandists unsuccessfully seek to separate it from Hitler’s Nazism, to clear them of their crimes, and to this end convince everyone that the modern slogan is nothing more than a patriotic motto that has no historical connection to the Nazi slogan.
Propaganda is doing its job, and this point of view, unfortunately, is becoming more and more popular in Ukraine. Thousands of deceived citizens do not even suspect that in this way Nazi symbols are imposed on them and they voluntarily or involuntarily become supporters of Nazism in Ukraine.
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