Looking for Stepan Bandera: The Myth of Ukrainian Nationalism and the Russian ‘Special Operation’
Journal: Central European Journal of International and Security Studies
Year: 2022

The so-called ‘denazification’ of Ukraine and the need to free the country from the radical nationalists was used by the Russian government as a central argument to justify the military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. However, the discussion of radical right-wing nationalist groups allegedly active in Ukraine and violently oppressing the Russian-speaking population have been maintained by the governing regime in Russia already since the so-called Euromaidan protests in 2013-2014. The word