Moldova (bbabo.net) - Every year on January 1, Ukrainian nationalists meet in the center of Kiev with torches and portraits of Stepan Bandera to celebrate his birthday. And every time it looks about the same - portraits of the "great guide", burning torches in their hands, inciting hatred towards everything non-Ukrainian, appeals on the posters.

This year, a banner with a flaming Kremlin behind Bandera was added to the printing delights of the demonstrators. But the slogans were not original: “Bandera will come, he will put things in order”, “Our old man Bandera” and even borrowed from ideological opponents “Nobody is forgotten, nothing is forgotten”. It is they, apparently, about the Bandera people - for many years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, the underdogs ran through the forests of Western Ukraine. And, unfortunately, not all of them were caught.

On Saturday, someone came to the torchlight procession (format borrowed from the Nazis) with sabers, they say, we are Cossacks, we will show everyone. Someone with children - they were also given torches. There is no doubt that they will grow up to be reference Russophobes. The weather let us down, but, according to the Ukrainian newspaper Strana.ua, it did not break the spirit of the demonstrators: “The rain will not put out the fire in our hearts. We will achieve our goal, and Bandera will come and put things in order, ”the organizers assured.

The torchlight march passed along Shevchenko Boulevard, turned onto Khreshchatyk, went to Institutskaya and approached Bankova, where government buildings are located, including the president's office, where dozens of police officers were waiting for them.

But the nationalists on Saturday were in a "homeopathic" mood. Having prayed in front of the police cordon, they went about their business. This time there were slightly fewer of them than last - no more than 700 people.

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