Bandera, Stalin, Hitler: why Bandera is called a 'fascist' and who actually liberated Prague (30.05.2026)
A street debate by Vitaliy Dribnytsia with two interlocutors (ru-orig). The historian explains why Soviet and modern Russian propaganda pins the “fascist” label on Bandera, distinguishes the precise concept of totalitarianism from the vague term “fascism,” recalls the two years of the Soviet–Nazi alliance — and in passing offers a sharp fact about the Prague Uprising of May 1945: in the final days of the war the city was liberated by General Bunyachenko’s 1st ROA Division (Vlasovites), not the Red Army. A source for the article on the cult of the “Great Victory” (the section on the Vlasovites and the myth of the “Soviet liberation” of Prague).
Key moments
- 00:00 Why Bandera is called a 'fascist': the 30 June 1941 act, arrest and Sachsenhausen
- 02:00 Totalitarianism (a precise concept) versus the vague term 'fascism'; Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe's book
- 07:00 The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact: two years of alliance, 'friendship sealed in blood'
- 13:53 Who liberated Prague: General Bunyachenko's 1st ROA Division, not the Red Army
- 18:00 The Kuril Islands and the 1951 San Francisco Treaty (Russia–Japan dispute)