Reddit reviews Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine

Oh please? Horrific accounts of looting and killing because of their Russian ethnicity? Please spare me. If anything of the sort has happened, it certainly does not call for a full scale invasion. If any group of people are persecuted either in Ukraine OR Russia, it is the Jews, homosexuals, Muslims or Crimean Tatars...you know... ACTUAL REAL MINORITIES.

One Russian gets called 'moskal' and Putin sends the entire red army in on the pretence that the Ukrainian interim parliament are fascist Nazi scum.

Oh also, Bandera wanted an independent, sovereign Ukraine free from the meddling Germans and Russians. Historians the world over agree^source that the relationship between Bandera and the Germans during the great war was ambivalent; tactical and opportunistic, with both sides trying to exploit the other. He was arrested by the Nazis only to be released because they thought he would help them with Soviet secrets. He was assassinated by a KGB spy in the 50s. Russians like you who call the revolutionaries 'Banderites' are actually doing the people of Ukraine a favour by helping them remember somebody who wanted independence. I'm glad they tore down the statues of Lenin. What the hell did Lenin ever do for the people of Ukraine?
While some nationalist parties in Ukraine who see Bandera as an icon do leave a bad taste in ones mouth, no sane, right minded Ukrainian whose ever stepped a foot out of our corrupt-to-shit country is supporting them. It was Yanukovich, the Putin-whipped lapdog who stripped Bandera of his title even after annual remembrance days were held decades after his death, stamps were printed on the anniversary of it and hundreds of thousands of people marched in Kiev in his memory. But enough about the dead past. That's all it is. Ukrainians have moved on since then and Russia just can't let go. In times like these, against the old tyranny, you're damn right the people will stand together, or divided may they fall.