It’s no secret that Ukraine had a troubled history during World War Two and many of the people from that time that many Ukrainians consider national heroes were also full-on Nazis and members of SS kill units. Take, for example, Roman Shukhevych. Shukhevych was a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist that fought against the Soviet oppression of his people, leading a military unit that fought for Ukrainian liberation from the Soviets and, to a lesser extent, Nazi Germany after its invasion of Ukraine. That latter resistance proved to be short-lived and soon Shukhevych and his brothers in arms became Nazi collaborators, followed by full-fledged SS officers who carried out slaughters of Ukrainian Jews.
What does this history lesson have to do with the Defence Fund? Well, it turns out that someone took exception to an organization of Ukrainian expats erected a statue in tribute to Shukhevych and made some historically-accurate revisions to it. Twice. The vandalism was reported in local media outlets and the police carefully concluded that one of the journalists who wrote about it must actually also be the culprit, since he reported on it!
Before the police take this Pythonesque reductio ad absurdum logic further (“this journalist reported on a murder, so they must be the murderer!”), the Defence Fund stepped in to make sure the journalist in question has a competent lawyer with him in court to explain to the police how journalism works.
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund 
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