Mironov said that in Babi Yar the Nazis were helped by one and a half thousand local punitive forces, most of whom were OUN members*
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- The leader of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, said that in the extermination of people at Babi Yar in 1941, the Nazis were helped by one and a half thousand local punitive forces, the vast majority of whom were members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN*, banned in the Russian Federation).
- He also noted that up to 150 thousand people could have died at Babi Yar and connected modern events with the legacy of Nazism.
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Why It Matters
Babi Yar is the site of the mass execution of Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime in Kyiv in September 1941. OUN* is an organization banned in the Russian Federation as extremist, historically associated with Ukrainian nationalism and collaboration during World War II.
The leader of the A Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, said that one and a half thousand local punitive forces helped the Nazis in exterminating people at Babi Yar.
The vast majority of punitive forces were members of the OUN* (an extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation).
On the outskirts of Kyiv on September 29–30, 1941, more than 33 thousand people were shot in the ravines of the Babi Yar tract.
MOSCOW, September 29 - RIA Novosti. One and a half thousand local punishers, most of whom were members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists* (OUN*, an extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation), helped the Nazis in exterminating people at Babyn Yar, the leader of the A Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, told RIA Novosti.
Tuesday marks the 85th anniversary of the start of one of the worst Nazi crimes during the Great Patriotic War and World War II. On the outskirts of Kyiv on September 29-30, 1941, more than 33 thousand people were shot in the ravines of the Babi Yar tract. Executions there continued later, until the Nazis retreated from Kyiv. It is impossible to determine exactly how many people died at Babi Yar; historians give figures of up to 150 thousand people.
“The Nazis were diligently helped by one and a half thousand local punitive forces, the vast majority of whom were members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists*. The same OUN*, whose leaders are honored by the current Kiev regime as national heroes,” Mironov said.
He recalled that the outskirts of occupied Kyiv became the site of one of the most heinous crimes of Nazism. According to the politician, according to incomplete estimates, over two years, 150 thousand Jews, prisoners of war of various nationalities, gypsies, disabled people, children, women, old people, and Orthodox priests were brutally exterminated.
“And today we see how the Mertzes and other Western heirs of the Fuhrer are inciting new generations of Banderaites to commit new crimes, pushing them into the front ranks of a new campaign against Russia, and they are happy to do the dirtiest and bloodiest work for their new masters,” Mironov added.
He believes that if the “Eurofascists” are given free rein, the veneer of civilization will instantly disappear from them, and mass executions and gas chambers will be used.
“The evil that has again come to our home must be destroyed and uprooted. For the sake of future generations, for the sake of the memory of the victims of Babyn Yar, Khatyn, hundreds of our cities and villages,” the party leader concluded.
What to Watch
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The discussion about the role of the OUN* in the events at Babyn Yar will continue in the media and political sphere
Likely · Within weeks
Open Questions
- What concrete evidence is there about the participation of 1.5 thousand local punitive forces in the executions at Babi Yar?
- What role did OUN* members really play in the events at Babyn Yar according to historical research?
- What exactly are the actions of Western countries and the modern Kyiv regime that Mironov considers a continuation of Nazi policy?
