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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>

[[File:UPA massacre.jpg|250px|left|thumb|The UPA was formed out of the OUN.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/39873146/The_OUN_the_UPA_and_the_Nazi_Genocide_in_Ukraine The OUN, the UPA, and the Nazi Genocide in Ukraine / Collaboration in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust], Ivan Katchanovski, 2019.<ref> It's flag was the red and black "Blood and Soil" flag. Euromaidanpress.com, which [[Trump-Russia collusion hoax]]er Andrea Chalupa works, defends the [[genocide]] committed by the OUN/UPA.<ref>http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/12/27/history-of-oun-upa-the-bandera-controversy-that-eclipsed-200000-people-who-fought-for-the-independence-of-ukraine/</ref>]]

[[File:UPA massacre.jpg|250px|left|thumb|The UPA was formed out of the OUN.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/39873146/The_OUN_the_UPA_and_the_Nazi_Genocide_in_Ukraine The OUN, the UPA, and the Nazi Genocide in Ukraine / Collaboration in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust], Ivan Katchanovski, 2019.</ref> It's flag was the red and black "Blood and Soil" flag. OUN remains passionately anti-Russian. Euromaidanpress.com, which [[Trump-Russia collusion hoax]]er Andrea Chalupa works with, defends the [[genocide]] committed by the OUN/UPA.<ref>http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/12/27/history-of-oun-upa-the-bandera-controversy-that-eclipsed-200000-people-who-fought-for-the-independence-of-ukraine/</ref>]]

==Banderists==

==Banderists==

The [[Simon Wiesenthal|Simon Wiesenthal Center]] contends that between June 30 and July 3, 1941, in the days that the Battalion was in [[Lviv]] the Nachtigall soldiers together with the German army and the local Ukrainians participated in the killings of Jews in the city. The pretext for the [[pogrom]] was a rumor that the Jews were responsible for the execution of prisoners by the Soviets before the 1941 Soviet withdrawal from Lviv. The ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust'' states that some 4,000 Jews were kidnapped and killed at that time.<ref>Gutman, Israel. "[http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x16/xm1688.html Nachtigall Battalion]". ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust''. Macmillan Publishing Company: New York, 1990.</ref> It further states that the unit was removed from Lviv on July 7 and sent to the Eastern Front.

The [[Simon Wiesenthal|Simon Wiesenthal Center]] contends that between June 30 and July 3, 1941, in the days that the Battalion was in [[Lviv]] the Nachtigall soldiers together with the German army and the local Ukrainians participated in the killings of Jews in the city. The pretext for the [[pogrom]] was a rumor that the Jews were responsible for the execution of prisoners by the Soviets before the 1941 Soviet withdrawal from Lviv. The ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust'' states that some 4,000 Jews were kidnapped and killed at that time.<ref>Gutman, Israel. "[http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x16/xm1688.html Nachtigall Battalion]". ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust''. Macmillan Publishing Company: New York, 1990.</ref> It further states that the unit was removed from Lviv on July 7 and sent to the Eastern Front.

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) arose out of separate militant formations of the OUN-Bandera faction (the OUNb).<ref>Vedeneyev, D. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150307183958/http://warhistory.ukrlife.org/5_6_02_4.htm Military Field Gendarmerie – special body of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]''. "Voyenna Istoriya" magazine. 2002.</ref> The political leadership belonged to the OUNb.<ref> It was the primary perpetrator of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.<ref>[http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf The July 1943 genocidal operations of OUN-UPA in Volhynia], pp=2-3;<br>https://web.archive.org/web/20160401045104/http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/5199/The-July-1943-genocidal-operations-of-the-OUN-UPA-in-Volhynia.pdf</ref>

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) arose out of separate militant formations of the OUN-Bandera faction (the OUNb).<ref>Vedeneyev, D. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150307183958/http://warhistory.ukrlife.org/5_6_02_4.htm Military Field Gendarmerie – special body of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]''. "Voyenna Istoriya" magazine. 2002.</ref> The political leadership belonged to the OUNb. It was the primary perpetrator of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.<ref>[http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf The July 1943 genocidal operations of OUN-UPA in Volhynia], pp=2-3; https://web.archive.org/web/20160401045104/http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/5199/The-July-1943-genocidal-operations-of-the-OUN-UPA-in-Volhynia.pdf</ref>

Its official date of creation is 14 October 1942,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111014202829/https://www.kyivpost.com/news/ukraine/detail/114845/ Demotix: 69th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]. 2011.</ref> The Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army at the period from December 1941 till July 1943 has the same name (Ukrainian Insurgent Army or UPA).<ref>Institute of Ukrainian History, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Chapter 3 pp.104-154</ref>

Its official date of creation is 14 October 1942,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111014202829/https://www.kyivpost.com/news/ukraine/detail/114845/ Demotix: 69th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]. 2011.</ref> The Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army at the period from December 1941 till July 1943 has the same name (Ukrainian Insurgent Army or UPA).<ref>Institute of Ukrainian History, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Chapter 3 pp.104-154</ref>

The OUN's stated immediate goal was the re-establishment of a united, quasi-independent [[Nazi]]-aligned, mono-ethnic [[nation state]] on the territory that would include parts of modern day Russia, [[Poland]], and [[Belarus]].<ref> Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a [[dictatorship]] that would drive out what they considered to be occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups.<ref>Myroslav Yurkevich, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pages\O\R\OrganizationofUkrainianNationalists.htm Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv)] ''This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).''</ref>  

The OUN's stated immediate goal was the re-establishment of a united, quasi-independent [[Nazi]]-aligned, mono-ethnic [[nation state]] on the territory that would include parts of modern day Russia, [[Poland]], and [[Belarus]].<ref> Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a [[dictatorship]] that would drive out what they considered to be occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups.<ref>Myroslav Yurkevich, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv)] ''This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).''</ref>  

==1991==

==1991==