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Meet The Lonely Ukranian Jew Fighting His Country’s New Fondness For Nazis

JL;DR SUMMARY Eduard Dolinsky, head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, is a vocal critic of Ukraine's historical narrative that venerates Nazi collaborators as anti-Communist heroes. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustUkraineUkrainian JewsNazi CollaboratorsJewish AdvocacyRussian Ukrainian ConflictAnti CommunismEduard DolinskyDecommunization LawsVolodymyr Viatrovych

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Lviv, Lvivshchyna, Ukraine
"A large crowd, some in Nazi uniforms, was parading in the Ukranian city of Lviv to commemorate the establishment of a militia loyal to Hitler."
Lutsk, Volyn, Ukraine
"Born in 1969 to an active, if non-observant, Jewish family in the former Polish city of Lutsk in the countrys northwest, Dolinsky served two years in the Soviet Air Forces and was discharged shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union."

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