Word: bandera
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...most of his life Stefan Bandera was an angry, fanatic outcast, dedicated to a lost cause. His cause was Ukrainian independence, and so hard did Bandera struggle for it that Soviet propaganda refers to all members of the Ukrainian underground as "Banderovtsy." The son of a Ukrainian Catholic priest, Stefan joined the Ukrainian underground in high school, and knew no other occupation. In 1934, when Bandera was sentenced to death for the assassination of Polish Interior Minister Bronislav Pieracki (for Ukrainians regarded both Poles and Russians as usurpers), the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, presumably to prevent a Ukrainian...
...advancing German army in 1939 released Bandera from a Polish jail, and he slipped across the Russian border to organize anti-Soviet resistance. Two years later, when the Wehrmacht attacked Russia, Bandera's partisans fought the retreating Russians and hopefully proclaimed an independent Ukraine. The occupying Nazis scoffed at the idea, and Bandera's men took on the Germans in turn. Tricked into a conference with the Gestapo in 1941, Bandera was arrested and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp...
...crushing "extremist ideologies," the Government dealt less harshly with Nazis and Fascists. The pro-Nazi newspaper El Pampero was closed for five days and Bandera Argentina for ten. Bandera Argentina was reprimanded for insulting President Roosevelt in an editorial en titled "Insolent Ultimatum," dealing with the President's request that neutrals refuse refuge to fleeing Nazis and Fascists...