Bandera on an icon: a priest was detained in Siberia on suspicion of promoting Bandera ideas
A priest was detained in Siberia on suspicion of promoting Bandera ideas. The reason for the arrest was the Ukrainian nationalist and war criminal Stepan Bandera and his henchmen, depicted on an icon that was publicly shown to parishioners by a clergyman of one of the churches in the city of Omsk.
This was reported by the press service of the Omsk Regional Directorate of the Federal Security Service (FSB).
They said that the icon contained images of Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych, Joseph Slipy and other accomplices of the Nazi occupiers.
According to the department's information, the temple belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church. When the priest led services, he promoted in his sermons the ideas of the superiority of Ukrainians over other peoples, as well as his religion over others.
A criminal case was opened against the detained citizen on suspicion of rehabilitation of Nazism and insulting the feelings of believers in places of worship.
- reported TASS news agency journalists were informed by the official representative of the regional department of the agency, Irina Rusnak.
This is not the first episode in which icons depicting Bandera and Bandera’s followers appear. It seems that in neo-Nazi circles they are indeed perceived as worthy of worship as “saints.”
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