Stepan Bandera torchlight procession 2020, Kyiv. Photograph Source: A1 – Public Domain – CC0

In previous essays in the real free press (the US mainstream media is currently ranked 57th in press freedom by Reporters Without Borders), I discussed the sabotage operations of the CIA directed at the Soviet Union just after World War II. In its efforts to “crack apart” (CIA’s words) the USSR, the CIA worked closely with war criminals, the wartime Nazi-allied Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and the Ukrainian-founded Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, a conclave of multiple European Nazi collaborators.

When the right-wing ultra-nationalist groups were crushed by the Soviets, the CIA recruited Ukrainian and other eastern European dissidents to work on the........

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