| | The OUNb reorganized itself within Ukraine as the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (KUN) and registered as a political party in January 1993.<ref> [http://www.da-ta.com.ua/mon_mainnews/815.htm Конгресс Українських Націоналістів], Database DATA</ref>. Until her death in 2003, KUN was headed by Slava Stetsko, widow of Yaroslav Stetsko. According to Ukrainian nationalist scholar Taraz Kuzio, in 1945, Yaroslav Stetsko was still asking [[Hitler]] for armies to continue the fight on the Eastern front against the [[Allied Powers of World War II]].<ref>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Russian-Hacking-the-Electi-by-George-Eliason-Coup_Euromaidan_Russian-Influence_Ukraine-161219-878.html</ref> OUN's leaders living abroad did not want to openly enter Ukrainian politics, and attempted to imbue this party with a democratic, moderate facade.<ref>Andrew Wilson. (1997). ''Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: a Minority Faith. Cambridge University Press.</ref> On March 9, 2010 the OUN rejected calls to unite "all of the national patriotic forces" led the [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] bloc against [[President Viktor Yanukovych]]. OUN demanded that Yanukovych reject the call for annulling the Hero of Ukraine status given to Stepan Bandera.<ref>[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/61306/ OUN rejects Tymoshenko's calls to form united opposition], Kyiv Post (March 9, 2010)</ref> | | The OUNb reorganized itself within Ukraine as the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (KUN) and registered as a political party in January 1993.<ref> [http://www.da-ta.com.ua/mon_mainnews/815.htm Конгресс Українських Націоналістів], Database DATA</ref>. Until her death in 2003, KUN was headed by Slava Stetsko, widow of Yaroslav Stetsko. According to Ukrainian nationalist scholar Taraz Kuzio, in 1945, Yaroslav Stetsko was still asking [[Hitler]] for armies to continue the fight on the Eastern front against the [[Allied Powers of World War II]].<ref>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Russian-Hacking-the-Electi-by-George-Eliason-Coup_Euromaidan_Russian-Influence_Ukraine-161219-878.html</ref> OUN's leaders living abroad did not want to openly enter Ukrainian politics, and attempted to imbue this party with a democratic, moderate facade.<ref>Andrew Wilson. (1997). ''Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: a Minority Faith. Cambridge University Press.</ref> On March 9, 2010 the OUN rejected calls to unite "all of the national patriotic forces" led the [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] bloc against [[President Viktor Yanukovych]]. OUN demanded that Yanukovych reject the call for annulling the Hero of Ukraine status given to Stepan Bandera.<ref>[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/61306/ OUN rejects Tymoshenko's calls to form united opposition], Kyiv Post (March 9, 2010)</ref> |
| | In the [[Second World War]] the OUN Banderist wing (OUNb) collaborated with the [[German]]s during [[Operation Barbarossa]].<ref>[[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]'', [https://archive.org/stream/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/The-Gulag-Archipelago__vol3__V-VII__Solzhenitsyn#page/n2/mode/2up Volume 3, pages 44-46.]</ref> | | In the [[Second World War]] the OUN Banderist wing (OUNb) collaborated with the [[German]]s during [[Operation Barbarossa]].<ref>[[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]'', [https://archive.org/stream/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/The-Gulag-Archipelago__vol3__V-VII__Solzhenitsyn#page/n2/mode/2up Volume 3, pages 44-46.]</ref> |