Similar commemorations and demonstrations took place on the twentieth anniversary of Bandera’s assassination in many other cities. In London, Ukrainians demonstrated with pro-Bandera and anti-Soviet posters, in front of the Soviet embassy (Fig. 47).[2024] In New York, the Ukrainian dissident Valentyn Moroz set fire to the Soviet flag at an ABN demonstration in front of the premises of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations (Fig. 48).[2025] The youth journal Avangard published a drawing of Bandera’s head growing out of a cross, which bore the inscription “The Vengeance Will Come!” (Fig. 49).[2026] Bronze medals were also released on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Bandera’s death.[2027]
The Ukrainian nationalists did not usually consider how Jews might perceive the cult of the Providnyk, or what they thought about the ritualized denial of the atrocities and war crimes committed by the Ukrainian insurgents and police during the Second World War. But in November 1979, Homin Ukraïny proudly informed its leaders on the first page that, shortly before the twentieth anniversary of Bandera’s death, a Committee of Ukrainian-Jewish Cooperation in Jerusalem sent a telegram with expressions of sympathy. The committee was founded in 1979 by Ukrainian Jewish émigrés and headed by Iakov Suslensky.[2028]