Torchlit parades were held recently in Lviv, in western Ukraine, to celebrate the national hero Stepan Bandera according to Archyde:

[https://www.archyde.com/torchlight-procession-for-banderas-birthday-held-in-lviv/]

Does anyone really believe these kinds of parades would be tolerated in EU democracies like Germany or in the UK?

But the West turns a blind eye and claims there are no neo-Nazis in Ukraine, which is essential to their narrative as otherwise they would have to admit that Putin had a point with his 'denazification' rhetoric. And Putin can never be right.

Aside from Putin, the current Polish President, Karol Nawrocki, has not forgotten Stepan Bandera and his role in the massacre of Poles in Ukraine in WW2 as DW reports:

[https://www.dw.com/en/polish-president-vetoes-extension-of-welfare-for-ukrainians/a-73785462]

Remembering the Volhynia massacre

Nawrocki, who holds a PhD in history, also proposed that symbols of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which was led by Stepan Bandera, and its military wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) should be treated in the same way as Nazi and Communist symbols and banned by law.

In 1943, the UPA waged a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Polish population in Volhynia, a region that had belonged to Poland before the Second World War and was occupied by Nazi Germany after it attacked the Soviet Union in 1941.

It is estimated that about 100,000 Poles were killed.

Bandera is celebrated in Ukraine as a hero for his resistance to the Sovietization of the country. In Poland, he is held responsible for the massacre, which Poland has declared a genocide.