02.03.2022, Moscow.
I have heard the fans #NoWar say, “Why do you keep saying that the words ‘Glory to Ukraine, Glory to the Heroes’ are supposedly proof that the people who say, shout, and write them on T-shirts are Nazis? These are just words.”
In response, I suggest that all those who support this thesis go up to any policeman in Germany and say “Sieg Heil.” Let him try it and then tell everyone what came out of it.
Why?
Let me remind you that “Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes” is not a pair of arbitrary sentences. It is a so-called CEREMONIAL, a fascist salute. It was adopted at a meeting of members of the Nazi organization OUN(b). The letter “b” stands for Banderites. In other words, the part of fascist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, that followed Stepan Bandera after it split in the early 1940s. It was the OUN(b) that was closest to Nazi Germany. It was the Banderites who became most notorious in Ukraine during Hitler’s occupation for their punitive campaigns against Russians, Jews, communists and those Ukrainians who opposed Nazism and the OUN(b).
The ceremonial “Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes” is actually a call and response. Upon meeting one of the Banderites addressed the other with “Glory to Ukraine.” The other would answer, “Glory to the Heroes.” And this, I emphasize, is the official greeting prescribed by the OUN(b) organization. Meaning they had to use these exact words, and not any others. This is how it is written in the statutory documents of the OUN(b).
The very greeting “Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes” is an exact reproduction of the Nazi greeting “Heil Hitler” with the response “Sieg Heil.” It should be noted that in Nazi Germany there were several variants of this greeting. The OUN initially adopted a variant closer to the German one: “Glory to Ukraine” with the answer “Glory to the Leader” (a copy of “Heil Hitler”). But after the split of the OUN, the Banderites adopted “Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes.”
So, “Sieg Heil” are just words, too, and they only mean “Glory to Victory.” There’s nothing special about them. There’ s not even a dirty word. But it just so happens that these words became the official Nazi salute, which, by the way, is still banned in many countries today. And it’s a marker: whoever says it is a Nazi.
“Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes” is a banal translation of the Nazi salute into Ukrainian. And someone who says it declares directly that he is a Nazi.
When the inscription “Glory to Ukraine. Glory to Heroes” appears on the official uniform of the Ukrainian national soccer team and they wear it at the World Cup (as they did at the last championship), it means that Ukraine as a state shouts this Ukrainianized “Sieg Heil” at the whole world. Meaning it is a 100% Nazi regime. Which must be broken and denazified. Which is what our guys are doing today near Kiev, in Donbass, near Kharkov. God bless them.
