In an unprecedented move, Ukrainian authorities are opening a criminal investigation into 94-year-old Jewish WWII hero, Col. Boris Steckler, who is accused of having killed a Nazi collaborator. Steckler was a senior officer in the Soviet Army and after the war was appointed as an officer in the KGB and was responsible for capturing Nazis and collaborators in western Ukraine.
During a battle in the Rivne Oblast in western Ukraine, Steckler was involved in a confrontation with nationalists who cooperated with the Nazis. During the confrontation, a man by the name of Neil Hasiewicz, who was a propagandist and district judge during the war, was shot and killed.
Local nationalist groups recently filed a complaint against Steckler, accusing him of responsibility for the assassination of Hasiewicza fact that Steckler does not deny........
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Poster Comment:
Come on, if we want to talk war criminals let's talk war criminals. Such prosecutions by East European govts don't even represent 1% of the grossly injust "Nazi hunting" perpetrated by Germany, the USG, the Slimon Wiesenthal Center and other communist forces.
They love to lie with headlines -- this article calls the Steckler case "unprecedented" but the text blithely cites a precedent.
As the jews did to innocent Demjanjuk, so let it be done to the guilty Steckler. Fair enuff?