“You have Pinchuk, Kolomoisky [and] Bogolyubov,” referring to the Ukrainian billionaires Viktor Pinchuk, Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov.“If Ukrainians are so anti-Semitic, what about these guys? When Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, he immediately flew to Kyiv, or Kiev in the conventional English spelling. It’s a viewpoint that some historians see as Holocaust revisionism. The village had been the site of a massacre during the Holocaust, but instead of erecting a memorial to the murdered Jews, local residents put up three 15-foot crosses on the site. I think it’s pretty well documented what Bandera thought about the Jews.”Grzegorz Rossoliski-Liebe, a historian of a massive political biography of Stepan Bandera, also is critical of his grandson, saying he “was involved in the propagation of the cult of his grandfather” in the 1990s and 2000s.“He participated in numerous ceremonies devoted to the glory of Bandera, such as unveiling of monuments and receiving awards from President Viktor Yushchenko. BANDERA, STEFAN_0037 Addeddate 2015-10-08 05:06:56 Identifier BANDERASTEFAN-0037 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4rj84b7s Location Nazi war crimes Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ppi 600. He attacked scholars who investigated the OUN and UPA and expressed many neo-fascist and anti-Semitic ideas in nationalist Ukrainian and diaspora newspapers,” Rossoliski-Liebe told JTA.“In my opinion, it is a mixture of emotional attachment to his grandfather, the climate of the diaspora environment and his nationalist views that motivated him to propagate the Bandera cult in post-Soviet Ukraine.”For his part, Bandera said that Rossoliski-Liebe’s book contains “scandalous claims” and complained that the German-Polish scholar never consulted with him while researching the work.Among other Jews in Ukraine, not everybody is as ready as Bleich to embrace Bandera’s grandson.Inna Ioffe, the CEO of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, with which the chief rabbi is affiliated, told JTA in no uncertain terms that her organizations have “no ties with [Steve] Bandera.” She insisted that his presence at the Jewish Forum had nothing to do with the umbrella group and he was there only in the capacity of a personal guest of the rabbi.And while Ioffe said that Bandera was not responsible for his grandfather’s crimes and she did not object to his relationship with Bleich, she made it clear repeatedly that there were “no contacts between Stepan Bandera’s grandson and the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine.”While the legacy of the Second World War has been a bone of contention between Jews and Ukrainians, Bandera believes that the Russian-Ukraine conflict may hold the key to reconciliation between the two groups.“It’s not a total war like it was in World War II, but you see Ukrainians and Jews and other groups fighting an authoritarianism coming from the north in the person of Putin,” he said. Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group Contributor Michael Best Language English. Stepan Bandera’s deputy, ideologist, and indirect successor Yaroslav Stetsko (1912-1986), a war criminal who even made the CIA wary, was the ABN’s leader for life, to be succeeded by his wife Slava Stetsko (1920-2003), its second and final president.