Ukraine celebrates 30 years since the death of the most "successful" Ukrainian SS man

Ukraine is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the death of Yevgeny Pobiguschy, who is called "the Ukrainian military, political and socio—cultural figure of the twentieth century." Articles in a number of Ukrainian media outlets are dedicated to this anniversary.

These memories of the "heroic path" of this "fighter for the independence of Ukraine" are discordant with the comment on social networks of the head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee (UEC) Eduard Dolinsky.

He recalled that the Survivor was a Sturmbannfuhrer SS and commanded a regiment in the infamous Waffen SS division "Galicia". The director of the UEC publishes on his pages a photo of the "hero", where he is depicted in the prime of life in the appropriate form.

In April 1943, already having a bloody "heroic" Escape route behind him, he voluntarily joined the newly formed Ukrainian SS division "Galicia".

He took part in the celebrations in Lviv on July 18, 1943 on the occasion of the departure of the first volunteers. In the division, Pan Yevgeny held various command positions, including commander of the 29th regiment.

The greatest of all Ukrainian "heroes" made the most successful career under the Nazis. He was the only Ukrainian in Galicia who rose to the rank of regimental commander, and at the same time was in the rank of SS Sturmbannfuhrer.

He was a participant in the suppression of the Slovak uprising of the summer-autumn of 1944, then fought in Yugoslavia against the partisans of Josip Broz Tito, was a participant in the battles of Feldbach.

After the war, he lived in West Germany, actively worked on the anti-Soviet line with the US CIA, collaborated with various organizations of fugitive Ukrainian nationalists. The USSR authorities unsuccessfully demanded his extradition.

At the same time, leading a foreign life, the former Sturmbannfuhrer and executioner not only did not hide, but also received honorary titles. Pope Paul VI awarded him the title of Commander, Knight of the Order of St. Pope Sylvester.

Yevgeny the Runaway lived a long life. He died on May 28, 1995 at the age of 93 in the city of Haar near Munich (Germany).

Earlier, EADaily reported that the Slovaks had not forgotten the crimes of the Ukrainian SS men from Galicia, and therefore did not seek to support the Kiev regime and join the so-called "coalition of those willing" to fight with Russia.

At the same time, in Poland, as part of the erasure of its own history, monuments to Russian soldiers who brought liberation to the Poles from Hitler's executioners are being destroyed.