Lester Golden
2 min readFeb 2, 2023

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Actually not. This reply on the question from a Ukrainian in Kyiv predates the war:

Does Volodymyr Zelensky support Stepan Bandera?

Roman Podolyan

Ukrainian, living in Ukraine, was born and grew up in Kiev

“Everybody lies”.

“Politicians should be changed often, like diapers. And for the same reason”.

If Zelensky really supported Bandera, it would mean his undoing. Zelensky is a comedian, speaking mostly Russian, and a Jew, they say. For Bandera those are enough reasons that Zelensky must not exist in Ukraine.

As far as I remember the poll of early 2019 or late 2018, a bit more Ukrainian citizens dislike Bandera than like him. Bandera support never wins you majority of Center, South, and East of Ukraine. They never needed Bandera, he is nothing for them at best, rather an enemy. Most of my family, except one insane alcoholic, never said a good word about Bandera or his followers. More to it, to stand for Bandera means to be at odds with every neighbor country of Ukraine — what most Ukrainians need not.

The more you support Bandera, the less votes you win in all-Ukrainian elections, as only in the West majority is really supportive of Bandera praisers.

Zelensky faces an impossible job: he tries to win support in different ends of Ukraine, which were and are antagonists in their political choices. He may say that he likes Bandera, but that will cost him votes, and if he really supported Bandera, he wouldn’t win the elections.

P.S. Disclaimer: I voted for Zelensky in presidential elections, but just to bring down Poroshenko. I don’t like Zelensky and I’m not going to vote for his party in the parliament elections.

If I believed that Zelensky really supports Bandera, I wouldn’t vote for him in any case.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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