LVIV, Ukraine – Of all the medals on his military tunic, it is the one marking his role in the UPA Ukrainian nationalist resistance fighting Nazis, Poles and Soviets in the war that ended 70 years ago on Saturday that gives Vasyl Chelepys the most pride.Gaunt and white-haired, he is now 92 and loses himself in memories of combat, arrest, comrades executed, a commuted death sentence and years in a Soviet labour camp in the Arctic circle.It was a time of tangled loyalties in western Ukraine, but now, as then, he regards the main adversary as Russia, a feeling the …read more
Source: AsiaOne
