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]
The OUNb reorganized itself within Ukraine as the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (KUN) and registered as a political party in January 1993.[3]. Its conspirational leaders within the diaspora did not want to openly enter Ukrainian politics, and attempted to imbue this party with a democratic, moderate facade.[4] Until her death in 2003, KUN was headed by Slava Stetsko, widow of Yaroslav Stetsko. 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 idea of cancelling the Hero of Ukraine status given to Stepan Bandera.[5]
Banderists
In the Second World War the OUN Banderist wing (OUNb) collaborated with the Germans during Operation Barbarossa.[6]
The Nachtigall Battalion, also known as the Ukrainian Nightingale Battalion Group, or officially as Special Group Nachtigall,[7] 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.[8]
At three villages of the Vinnytsia region "all Jews which were met" were shot.[9]
The 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.[10] It further states that the unit was removed from Lviv on July 7 and sent to the Eastern Front.
1991
Alexandra Chalupa
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- ↑ Pavel Sudaplatov, Special tasks, 1994, page 430.
- ↑ http://thesaker.is/ukraine-was-right-why-russia-is-the-biggest-threat-in-the-world/
- ↑ Конгресс Українських Націоналістів, Database DATA
- ↑ Andrew Wilson. (1997). Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: a Minority Faith. Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ OUN rejects Tymoshenko's calls to form united opposition, Kyiv Post (March 9, 2010)
- ↑ Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 3, pages 44-46.
- ↑ 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.
Університет імені Шевченко \Ін-т історії України НАН України Київ, 2004 (No ISBN) p.271-278 - ↑ "... скрепив нашу ненависть нашу до жидів, що в двох селах ми постріляли всіх стрічних жидів. Під час нашого перемаршу перед одним селом... ми постріляли всіх стрічних там жидів" from Nachtigal third company activity report Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади та управління України (ЦДАВО). — Ф. 3833 . — Оп. 1. — Спр. 157- Л.7
- ↑ Gutman, Israel. "Nachtigall Battalion". Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Macmillan Publishing Company: New York, 1990.
