As far back as the 1990s, this milieu has produced various ultra-rightwing organizations. In 1990, the UNA Party ~ Ukrainian National Assembly was founded, forming a paramilitary wing ~ the Ukrainian National Self-Defense”– UNS in 1991. Yuri Shukhevych, a Nazi collaborator, was one of its first leaders. Soon the “Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists” ~ CUN followed, which elected the former OUN activist Slava Stetsko to the Ukrainian Parliament in 1997. Already in 1998, the CUN received – in electoral alliances with other parties – 9.7 per cent of the votes in Lviv, 20.9 per cent in Ternopil 23.8 per cent in Ivano-Frankivsk. At the time, the “Social National Party of the Ukraine” ~ SNPU, which was co-founded in Lviv in 1991 by Oleh Tiahnybok and had violent neo-Nazi members, was not yet successful in elections. In 1998 Tiahnybok was voted into the Ukrainian parliament with a direct mandate. Only after the SNPU changed its name to the “AllПатриот Украиныnian Union ‘Svoboda’ ‘Freedom’ in 2004, did it become more successful in elections and the leader of Ukraine’s ultra-rightwing forces.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:59:51 +0000
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