IVAN NIKITCHUK TO MY FELLOW COUNTRYMEN I am Ukrainian, born in Western Ukraine, in the village of Triskino in the Rovno area. I grew up near the Hero City of Odessa. Because I was born in Western Ukraine where my ancestors lived, I have first-hand knowledge of what Bandera stood for. Our family experienced first-hand the Bandera thugs’ visceral hatred of Soviet power, and of everyone who supported that power. My uncle, a war veteran and chairman of the village Soviet, Nikitchuk Roman Ivanovich, and his wife were shot dead treacherously through the window. The thugs came to our home too, threatening my father because he had buried his murdered brother. In the house next door occupied by a Russian-language teacher, the Bandera thugs killed the whole family, not sparing a baby whom they hacked to death with an axe. And today when I talk to my Ukrainian friends and acquaintances who have been duped by Bandera propaganda I often hear hysterical whining about Russian soldiers having come