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A month before the Maidan Revolution in February 2014, Obama administration Assistant US Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Victoria Nuland, wife of [[Neocon]] [[Robert Kagan]], announced plans to promote a “new government” in Ukraine. The leader of the “protests” in February 2014 which ousted [[President Yanukovych]] was a [[neo-Nazi]] and follower of Stepan Bandera.<ref>https://washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/america-backed-fascists-ukraine-73-years-ago.html</ref>

A month before the Maidan Revolution in February 2014, Obama administration Assistant US Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Victoria Nuland, wife of [[Neocon]] [[Robert Kagan]], announced plans to promote a “new government” in Ukraine. The leader of the “protests” in February 2014 which ousted [[President Yanukovych]] was a [[neo-Nazi]] and follower of Stepan Bandera.<ref>https://washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/america-backed-fascists-ukraine-73-years-ago.html</ref>

==Independence==

==Independence and the Ukrainian diaspora==

Andreas Umland and Anton Shekhovstsov wrote in 2013:

Andreas Umland and Anton Shekhovstsov wrote in 2013:

{{quotebox|In 1990, one of the best known nationalist parties—the Ukrainian National Assembly (UNA), headed by Dmytro Korchyns'kyi—was established in Lviv… In Ukraine itself, the UNA-UNSD became a media phenomenon, not least thanks to its deliberate provocation aimed at [[left-wing]] and pro-[[Russian]] forces and its frequent clashes with the police. But the UNA had little political success… The second best-known ultraright party to emerge at the beginning of the 1990s was the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (CUN)—a direct heir of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Bandera) (OUN-B), which Stepan Bandera headed in 1940 after a split in the original OUN. The continuity between the OUN-B and the CUN was ensured by the return from emigration of Iaroslava Stets'ko, [Slava  Stetsko] a former member of the OUN-B and the widow of Iaroslav Stets'ko [Yaroslav Stetsko], one of the leaders of the OUN-B and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.}}

{{quotebox|In 1990, one of the best known nationalist parties—the Ukrainian National Assembly (UNA), headed by Dmytro Korchyns'kyi—was established in Lviv… In Ukraine itself, the UNA-UNSD became a media phenomenon, not least thanks to its deliberate provocation aimed at [[left-wing]] and pro-[[Russian]] forces and its frequent clashes with the police. But the UNA had little political success… The second best-known ultraright party to emerge at the beginning of the 1990s was the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (CUN)—a direct heir of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Bandera) (OUN-B), which Stepan Bandera headed in 1940 after a split in the original OUN. The continuity between the OUN-B and the CUN was ensured by the return from emigration of Iaroslava Stets'ko, [Slava  Stetsko] a former member of the OUN-B and the widow of Iaroslav Stets'ko [Yaroslav Stetsko], one of the leaders of the OUN-B and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.}}