Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was formed in 1929 by merger of several Ukrainian resistance movements to Bolshevik control of the Ukraine. The Soviet Union declared the OUN a terrorist organization.
When the Ukrainian parliament declared independence from the U.S.S.R. in 1991, among its first acts was to terminate the state of war which the OUN had declared against the Soviet Union since its earliest days.[1] The founding parties of the new independent Ukrainian state received funding from the OUN.[2]
Banderists
In the Second World War the OUN Banderist wing (OUNb) collaborated with the Germans during Operation Barbarossa.
The Nachtigall Battalion, also known as the Ukrainian Nightingale Battalion Group, or officially as Special Group Nachtigall,[3] was the subunit under command of the German Abwehr (Military Intelligence) special operations unit "Brandenburg". Along with the Roland Battalion it was one of two military units formed February 25, 1941 by head of the Abwehr Adm. Wilhelm Canaris, which sanctioned the creation of the "Ukrainian Legion" under German command. It was composed of volunteer "Ukrainian nationalists," Ukrainians operating under Stephan Bandera's OUN orders.[4]
1991
Alexandra Chalupa
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References
External links
- ↑ Pavel Sudaplatov, Special tasks, 1994, page 430.
- ↑ http://thesaker.is/ukraine-was-right-why-russia-is-the-biggest-threat-in-the-world/
- ↑ Abbot, Peter. Ukrainian Armies 1914-55, p.47. Osprey Publishing, 2004. ISBN|1-84176-668-2
- ↑ І.К. Патриляк. Військова діяльність ОУН(Б) у 1940—1942 роках. Template:Webarchive — Університет імені Шевченко \Ін-т історії України НАН України Київ, 2004 (No ISBN) p.271-278
