“Neither katsapa, nor a Jew, nor Lyah.” National Question: Alexey Bakanov

Professional historians and publicists have been broken by many copies in discussions regarding the cooperation of Ukrainian nationalists with the Germans, the struggle of the UPA with the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, the participation of the UPA soldiers in the destruction of the civilian civilian population. The Problem of the UPA is still a question that split Ukrainian society. For some, members of the OUN and UPA are bandits, “Ukrainian -German nationalists”, simple performers of the will of their foreign owners. For others, these are undeniable heroes, and Ukrainian nationalism is a force that fought in an unequal struggle against two totalitarianisms, and never had nothing in common with fascism. So who were the Ukrainian nationalists really? The work offered to the reader to some extent answers this question. Without pretending to be all -legged and writing the exhaustive story of the OUN and UPA, the author set a more modest goal before: to consider the national aspects of the ideology of the OUN, to understand the meaning of Ukrainian nationalists in the concept of “n …

Author
BAKANOV Alexey Ivanovich
Editor
Valieva D. S.
Publisher
Algorithm, 2014
Series
“East Europe. XX century ”