Andrij Melnyk, Ukraine's former disgraced ambassador to Germany and currently the deputy foreign minister, has long defended & denied the crimes of Stepan Bandera, who he calls a "hero". Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian fascist who partnered with Nazi Germany during WW2 and helped it implement its "final solution" in Ukraine and Eastern Poland. Professor Timothy Snyder, a very pro Ukrainian historian, wrote that Bandera and his UPA militia: "helped the Germans organize murderous pogroms of J*ws, P