The crime of Bandera during the Second World War. How the Soviet special services defeated OUN-UPA
I think there is no need to talk about what is happening in Ukraine now. I just want to note - this is a civil war. Started by Ukrainian traitors in 1941 with the support of Nazi Germany and money, and continued today - with the support of the West and the United States with money and information (I think the supply of weapons from the United States will not rust).
Can we now fight with weapons in our hands? I'm afraid not. Do we have money in an amount that can compete with the US? No definitely.
But we have a field of war, the victory on which depends entirely on us. This is an information field.
The Nazism that is now rising in Ukraine has Bandera roots, uses his rhetoric, uses his methods. And we, knowing them, their tricks, can resist them. To everyone who stands on the information barricades to help.
MYTHS ABOUT BANDEROV
Myth No. 1 Bandera did not fight from the very beginning with Russia and, especially, Russians, as they are credited with.
Bandera from the very beginning of their appearance waged a fierce war against the Poles (who were occupiers) and Russians (who were also considered "Muscovite" occupiers). And they were preparing for this war much ahead of time.
"Lahousen gave me an order for review ... The order stated that in order to deliver a lightning strike on the Soviet Union, Abwehr-2, when carrying out subversive work against the USSR, should use its agents to incite national enmity between the peoples of the Soviet Union. In particular, I personally was instructions were given to the leaders of Ukrainian nationalists, German agents Melnik (nicknamed "Consul-1") and Bandera, to organize provocative speeches in Ukraine immediately after the German attack on the Soviet Union in order to undermine the nearest rear of the Soviet troops, as well as in order to convince the international community that that the decomposition of the Soviet rear seems to be taking place.
E. Stolze: ".. At the end of the war with Poland, Germany was intensively preparing for a war against the Soviet Union, and therefore, measures were taken along the Abwehr line to intensify subversive activities, because those measures that were carried out through Melnik and other agents seemed insufficient.
For this purpose, the well-known Ukrainian nationalist Bandera Stepan was recruited, who during the war was released by the Germans from prison, where he was imprisoned by the Polish authorities for participating in a terrorist act against the leaders of the Polish government.
(source - materials of the Nuremberg Trial. Book Nuremberg Trial,. M.)
As Petro Poltava, the "historian" of Bandera, writes about this:
Bandera is a widely used, popular name of all participants in the insurrectionary and underground liberation struggle, which began against the Nazis during the Nazi occupation, and since 1944 (sic!) Continues against the Bolshevik invaders.
Myth #2 The Banderaites never considered the Russian people as an enemy, nor any other people, such as Poles, Germans or Jews.
There are so many facts here that a small fraction is enough to clearly see their position on this issue.
Testimony of General E. Lahousen, one of the leaders of the Abwehr, at the meeting of the International Military Tribunal on November 30, 1945
"... Canaris was instructed to create an insurrectionary movement in Ukrainian Galicia, the purpose of which would be the extermination of Jews and Poles ... it is necessary to stage an uprising or insurrectionary movement in such a way that all the courtyards of the Poles were engulfed in fire and that all Jews were killed."
Fascist troops occupy Lvov. Together with them, the famous Abwehr battalion "Nachtigal" (translated from German - "Nightingale"), consisting of Bandera and led by Roman Shukhevych, Bandera's closest ally, entered the city.
On the same day, the whole city was sealed with Stepan Bandera's appeals: "People! Know! Moscow, Poland, Magyars, Jews are your enemies.
In 1941, Ya. Stetsko declared: “Moscow and the Jews are the biggest enemies of Ukraine. I consider Moscow the main and decisive enemy, which imperiously held Ukraine in captivity. And, nevertheless, I appreciate the hostile and wrecking will of the Jews, who helped Moscow to enslave Ukraine. Therefore, I stand on the positions of the extermination of the Jews and the expediency of transferring to Ukraine the German methods of exterminating the Jews, excluding their assimilation.
(Sources: Berkhoff K.C., Carynnyk M. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Dyukov A. On the participation of the OUN - UPA in the Holocaust: "Moscow and Jews are the main enemies of Ukraine" // IA „REGNUM“, 10/14/2007)
I cannot but quote the words of one of Bandera's supporters about how they were guided during the war by the "three principles of Bandera":
"- a fraternal attitude towards those of them who support the struggle of the Ukrainian people for their state and interests; - a tolerant attitude towards those of them who simply live in Ukraine; - a hostile attitude towards those who are hostile to Ukraine, its independence, the state and language."
This paragraph is from the category of those when it is so sad that it is already funny.
Myth #3 Bandera's ideology is not fascist or Nazi
One of the OUN theorists wrote: A. Andrievsky: "Our newest nationalism is not the result of the efforts of the Ukrainian mind, but the product of Italian fascism and German national socialism. Dontsov prepared the basis for such a hobby."
(Source: "Stepan Bandera. Perspectives of the Ukrainian Revolution". - Drogobych, 1998. - S. 5-8; Gordusevich S. Stepan Bandera. Lyudina and myth. - K., 2000. - S. 43-44)
Myth No. 4 Bandera did not cooperate with the German occupation regime before the war, but met them as liberators
After the end of the 1st World War and the Civil War, the “Sich Riflemen” and other similar people who found themselves in exile were organized in the UVO (Ukrainian military organization), later transformed into the OUN. And back in the 1930s, the “fighters for freedom” gently clung to Hitler , financial streams also flowed, immediately invigorating the hearts of the OUN. They even adjusted the ideology, a kind of second-rate fascism came out. But with pretensions: “Walk in rows, make up rows and bathe in blood, guard in fire. Fire and blood, life is that will, but death is smacking at their breasts ... You hear the cry - Zig heil! Heil! Sig heil! (Yu. Lipa "Ukrainian Doba", Lviv, 1934).
Already in 1938. in Germany, several training centers were created where OUN saboteurs were trained. Although there were different views in the leadership of the Reich about their viability, the chief of the Abwehr, V. Canaris, stated: "There are no scum, there are only cadres."
Myth No. 5 Stepan Bandera himself fought against Hitler, so he was killed back in 1941. sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (a similar myth - Bandera stopped cooperating with the German occupation regime after 1941)
Two weeks after the capture of Lvov, the Nachtigall battalion, formed under the leadership of Bandera, turned the German rear into a field for their showdown with the Poles, which caused Hitler's extreme displeasure. And it's not that they felt sorry for some "Untermensch". The task of the General Staff of any belligerent country is to bring chaos behind enemy lines and vice versa, to ensure order in their own rear. In addition, the Germans believed that the population of the occupied countries should, with or without enthusiasm, work for the good of the Reich, and not lie with their throats cut in a ditch.
In addition, in an unknown direction (to the accounts of Swiss banks), a large amount of money allocated by German intelligence to finance the OUN leaked.
So, according to Lazarek: "S. Bandera received 2.5 million marks from the Germans, that is, as much as Melnik receives," source - materials of the Nuremberg trial) and transferred to a personal account in a Swiss bank.
(Historical portraits: Makhno, Petlyura, Bandera. - K., 1990. - P. 24)
But that was not all - without the demand of the Germans, the Act on the proclamation of the Ukrainian state was adopted. The OUN hoped that the Germans would come to terms with this. An attempt to arbitrarily declare a state on the territory already occupied by German troops, where the latter had already suffered losses, while the OUN could not or did not want to organize a large-scale uprising in the rear of the Red Army in Western Ukraine, ended sadly for Bandera.
July 5, 1941 At a meeting, Adolf Hitler said: “Parteigenosse Himmler, machen Sie Ordnung mit diesen Bande! ” (Parteigenosse Himmler, clean up this gang!). Almost immediately, the Gestapo arrested S. Bandera, Ya. Stetsko, as well as about 300 members of the OUN. "Nachtigal" was urgently reorganized into a police battalion and transferred to Belarus to fight the partisans, and Bandera was taken under house arrest in Krakow, and then transferred to Sachsenhausen, to a kind of hotel where high-ranking fascist accomplices, temporarily withdrawn to the reserve, sat.
The Bandera people were very worried:
"The Nazis threw hundreds of Ukrainian patriots into concentration camps and prisons. Mass terror began. Stepan Bandera's brothers Oleksa and Vasyl were brutally tortured in the Auschwitz concentration camp."
And no matter how the Bandera people insist, the story does not end there.
In 1944, Hitler removed Bandera from the reserve and included him in the Ukrainian National Committee, whose task was to organize the fight against the advancing Red Army.
“In early April 1945, Bandera was instructed by the Main Directorate of Imperial Security to gather all Ukrainian nationalists in the Berlin area and defend the city from the advancing Red Army units. Bandera created detachments of Ukrainian nationalists who acted as part of the Volkssturm, while he fled. He left the dacha of the 4-D department and fled to Weimar. Burlai told me that Bandera agreed with Danyliv on a joint transition to the side of the Americans.
And now let's give the floor to the Bandera people, but we want to know the opinion of both sides:
“Having felt the power of the UPA in their own skin, the Germans began to look for an ally in the OUN-UPA against Moscow. In December 1944, Bandera and several other members of the OUN-revolutionary were released. They were offered negotiations on possible cooperation. "Ukrainian statehood and the creation of the Ukrainian army as separate, independent from the German armed forces of an independent power. The Nazis did not agree to recognize the independence of Ukraine and sought to create a pro-German puppet government and Ukrainian military formations as part of the German army. Bandera resolutely rejected these proposals."
(Source - Stepan Bandera's article. Life and work.
The Bandera brothers died in Auschwitz in 1942 - they were beaten to death by Polish prisoners. Eye for an eye.
Myth No. 7 Bandera with the same dedication waged a desperate struggle against both Hitler's fascism and Stalin's reactionary-repressive regime.
I will first quote the text of the comrade, who very clearly and logically compared several facts, and then I will present several facts for justification. I repeat here and there.
"The current followers of Bandera sharply reject the cooperation of Bandera with the Germans and insist on their confrontation. There is even a flash of a figure of 800 Nazis killed in battles with the "UPA warriors" (in fact, the average Soviet partisan detachment had more accounts). But the German archives at the request of our veterans answer that they have no information about those who died at the hands of Bandera, as well as about these battles themselves.Some kind of theater of the absurd!It turns out that the Germans, with manic idiots, supply their enemies with money, equipment, weapons: more than 700 mortars, about 10 thousand easel and light machine guns, 100 thousand hand grenades, 12 million rounds of ammunition, etc. Moreover, they train foremen for the UPA at the training center in Neuhammer, and others, assigning them German military ranks.
No, the Germans certainly had some skirmishes with Bandera. It happened that the Germans acted as owners and punished them in a disciplinary manner: they put them in camps, even shot them. What do you want? The same "Volyn massacre", when Bandera in the summer of 1943. they cut out all the Polish villages of Volhynia and thereby disrupted the planned supply of products for the German army - a headache for the German quartermasters! The German neat people also looked askance at the bad habit of the Bandera people to clog wells with drinking water with corpses, etc.
"Supporters of the OUN, on the orders of Bandera, served in the German police, punitive battalions ... For example, the same Roman Shukhevych, who was one of the ministers of the Bandera government dispersed by the Germans, continued to serve the Germans in the Nachtigal battalion, then became one of the commanders of the punitive battalion SS Until December 1942, he earned two crosses and the title of captain of the SS for the successful suppression of the partisan movement on the territory of Belarus.
"The Germans gave the OUN-UPA 100 thousand rifles and machine guns, 10 thousand machine guns, 700 mortars, a lot of ammunition. Former Nazi leaders of the Abwehr Lahuzen, Stolze, Lazarek, Paulus testified to this at the trial."
(Source - materials of the Nuremberg court bnogo process)
Myth No. 8 Bandera did not commit the atrocities that they are prescribed
This is such an absurd myth that it is enough just to give some of the names: the Lvov Jewish pogrom, the Volyn massacre, Babi Yar. And one more example, not so well-known, but painful because it is "everyday", "ordinary".
The affidavit of Herman Grebe, read out by US prosecutor Stari.
"On the night of July 13, 1942, all the inhabitants of the ghetto in the city of Rivne ... were liquidated ... Shortly after 10 p.m., the ghetto was surrounded by a large detachment of the SS and about three times as large a detachment of Ukrainian police. Groups of SS men and police broke into houses. People living there driven out into the street in the form in which they were caught.
People were evicted from their homes with such haste that in some cases small children were left in their beds. All night persecuted, beaten and wounded people moved along the illuminated streets. The women carried their dead children in their arms. Some children were dragged to the train by the arms and legs of their dead parents...
Soon the Ukrainian police broke into house 5 on Bangofstrasse, pulled out 7 Jews from there and dragged them to the ghetto...
“Two features are striking in this document: firstly, the ratio of SS men and Ukrainian policemen - the bulk of the killers were not Germans, but “fighters for Ukraine”; secondly, the main opponents of these “fighters” were children - the witness speaks of them constantly."
(Source - Nuremberg trials. Collection of documents, - V.2, S.500)
Myth #9 The atrocities prescribed to the Banderaites were committed by the NKDVsniks disguised as Banderaites to discredit the insurgent movement and deprive them of popular support.
How serious the situation with the spread of this lie is, is evidenced by the fact that the myth of “disguised enkavedeshniki” is enshrined in the so-called. "Professional Conclusion (Fahovy vysnovok) of the working group of historians to study the activities of the OUN-UPA", published in Ukraine in a mass circulation of 120,000 copies, and centrally distributed to all libraries, secondary and higher educational institutions. On October 14, 2005, at a meeting of the Government Commission, this "Vysnovok" was approved as an official assessment of the activities of the OUN-UPA. Here in the argumentation, one can go in two ways - direct and indirect.
Direct - to understand all the intricacies of the information war. All this is discussed in the book The Great Slandered War-2 in the article by Oleg Rossov "The Myth of Disguised NKVD Deshniks. Special Groups of the NKVD in the fight against bandit formations in Western Ukraine." Or use the materials of the article.
Indirect - Bandera fought against the Soviet Union - a fact. They received money and weapons from the Germans - a fact. And they did not play toys with these weapons. They staged massacres - a fact. In order for all this to be done by the NKVD, it is necessary that the UPA did not exist at all. And there was one this NKVD, which ran everything. The situation in which disguised UPA organize massacres of the population with impunity, and the UPA, who see all this, suffer greatly and do nothing at the same time (or better, they follow and ask not to kill anyone) is simply outrageous drug addict nonsense.
Myth No. 10 The UPA was not convicted by the Nurgberg Tribunal, which is proof of their non-participation in the massacres and indicates their struggle against Nazism.
The OUN is mentioned several times in the documents, but the activities of this organization simply did not fall under the charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Japanese war criminals, for example, were not tried in Nuremberg either. And Croatian Ustashe.
However, it does not follow from this that they did not commit crimes (and they did not write the book "The Devil's Kitchen"). But Bandera's followers continue to insist on this, as if it justifies everything. Probably because there is no statute of limitations for these crimes. The time of the Japanese has come (Japanese war criminals were tried later in 1946 by the Tokyo Military Tribunal. The Charter of the Tokyo Tribunal incorporated the most important provisions of the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal), not far off and them.
Myth #11 Final. They (Banedra) fought for the independence of Ukraine and the liberation of the Ukrainian people.
The Banderists were an extremely small (permanent composition of 6.5 thousand) well-organized, armed, trained and motivated by their idea group of militants. Which during the occupation of Poland could not do anything (Bandera himself, until the capture of Poland by the Germans, was in a Polish prison for an attempt. By the way, the Germans released him). They were able to act in a serious way only when they found themselves the strongest ally in the face of Nazi Germany. They lived on their money, shot civilians with their weapons.
The Germans gave the OUN-UPA 100,000 rifles and machine guns, 10,000 machine guns, 700 mortars, a lot of ammunition. Former Nazi leaders of the Abwehr Lahousen, Stolze, Lazarek, Paulus testified at the trial.
Threats and lies recruited people into their ranks.
To ensure a massive influx of volunteers to the UPA in 1942. Shukhevych declared official war on both the Bolsheviks and the Germans. This was confusing, and many people, wanting to fight the Germans, joined Shukhevych’s detachments, which numbered up to 100 thousand people, and in fact it turned out that despite calls to fight both against the Bolsheviks and against the Germans, the leadership of the OUN-UPA directs its main efforts to fight the red partisans and the peaceful Polish population of Volhynia.
(Source - film Line of War. Shukhevych R.I. - leader of the OUN)
After the general appeal, in order to avoid mass outflows of people who joined the OUN and realized that they had been deceived, the OUN set one condition for the Germans - to keep the fact of cooperation between them secret.
Here is how the minister of the Bandera "government" "Gerasimovsky" (I. Grinyokh) wrote about this to the German command:
"The delivery of weapons and sabotage from the German side across the front line for the UPA units should be carried out according to the rules of conspiracy, so as not to give the Bolsheviks any evidence regarding the Ukrainians - allies of the Germans who remained behind the front line. Therefore, the OUN asks that negotiations, an agreement go on from the center and that the security police should be partners on the part of the Germans, as far as possible, since they are familiar with the rules of conspiracy.
(Source - the book "Without the right to rehabilitation", chapter R. Shukhevych, author of the chapter Poddubny L.A.)
Those who tried to resist were beaten and killed. Those who performed their duties with insufficient zeal were killed, along with the whole family.
In 1943, an order was given to "eliminate" deserters from the UPA and beat draft evaders with ramrods.
This is a struggle of a group of terrorists for power, not for the independence of Ukraine. These are attempts by threats, weapons and massacres to force peaceful people to recognize their influence. They were remembered as the murderers of their own countrymen.
Bandera, of course, chose other words to justify:
"With about 20 thousand members, the OUN had a great influence on the Ukrainian population" (with weapons in their hands and with the support of the Nazis - author's note).
(Source article "STEPAN BANDER",
The number of people killed on the territory of Ukraine during the Second World War by the Nazis (including Bandera):
In Crimea, civilians were loaded onto barges, taken out to sea and sunk. Over 144,000 people were killed in this way.
At Babi Yar, near Kyiv, they shot over 100,000 men, women, children and the elderly. In this city in January 1942, after the explosion at the German headquarters on Dzerzhinskaya Street, the Germans arrested 1,250 old people, minors, women with babies as hostages. In Kyiv, they killed over 195,000 people.
In Rovno and in the Rivne region they killed and tortured over 100,000 civilians.
In Dnepropetrovsk, near the Transport Institute, they shot and threw alive into a huge ravine 11,000 women, old people and children.
In the Kamenetz-Podolsk region, 31,000 Jews were killed and destroyed, including 13,000 brought from Hungary.
At least 200,000 Soviet citizens were killed in the Odessa region.
In Kharkov, about 195,000 people were tortured, shot or strangled in "gas chambers".
In Gomel, the Germans rounded up local residents in prison, tortured them, and then brought them to the city center and publicly shot them.
(Source - materials of the Nuremberg trial)
Aren't there too many "dissenters" and those "on whom they had a great influence" killed? ...
And good. We decided to suddenly forget that Bandera killed their fellow countrymen. If they were fighting for an idea, wouldn't they team up with everyone who supports that idea? But no - back in 1940, the OUN split into two organizations, OUN-b (Bandera) and OUN-m (Melnikov).
But Bandera's supporters, of course, formulate it differently: "There were internal conflicts in the organization: between young, inexperienced, impatient and more experienced and reasonable, who went through the war and revolution, between the leadership of the OUN, living in comfortable conditions of emigration, and the bulk of the members OUN, who worked underground and under police persecution."
(Source "STEPAN BANDERA",
Bandera "tried their hand" on the OUN-Melnikovites. Then, in a few months in 1940, the security service eliminated about 400 of its political opponents.
Then they will hunt and knock on each other in the Gestapo throughout the war.
Disagreements between members? Come on. 400 corpses - is it just a disagreement? Think about it - these are not losses for the entire period of the Second World War. These are the results of the work of several (!) months at a time when the war had not yet begun. This is how they treated "like-minded people." Or maybe it was something else? Maybe it was a struggle for power and political influence? For who will manage the German money? Maybe it's inevitable when you deceive people, saying that you are fighting for freedom and independence, but in reality everything turned out to be not quite so? This is pure politics. Otherwise, they would not have started to arrange a showdown among themselves, as they do with political competitors. This is what they do when they strive for power, and not when they save the people. But that's not all. In relations between the Bandera themselves, too, not everything was smooth.
In 1943, the edge wire assigned the following tasks to the Security Council:
"eliminate" deserters from the UPA and beat draft evaders with ramrods;
Continue to "control" the loyalty of the OUN members themselves.
In the summer of 1945, Bandera issued his famous thrice secret decree, which, in particular, spoke of the need "immediately and most secretly ... to eliminate the aforementioned elements of the OUN and UPA (those who may surrender to the authorities) in two ways: large and small detachments of the UPA to fight the Bolsheviks and create situations for them to be destroyed by the Soviets at posts and "ambushes" ("The land blames", p. 150). The security service had to deal with the rest.
Now let's put these facts together.
They kill their countrymen and call it the liberation of the people.
They kill their like-minded people who have chosen a different leader, and call it the struggle for the independence of the country.
They kill and betray each other and this is called unity and brotherhood.
I can tell you what it's called. It's all summed up in one word - BETRAYAL.
Betrayal of the People.
Betrayal of the motherland.
Betrayal of the Idea.
A TRAITOR is worse than an ENEMY. The enemy has principles. The traitor has none. The enemy has values, the traitor's only value is his own skin.
The historian Boris Yulin wrote about this very intelligibly. Further quote:
“What is the act of betrayal? It lies in the fact that a citizen of the country deliberately goes into the service of the enemies of the country. Usually this is a transition to the side of the enemy during hostilities.
Since there will always be a moral monster who considers such an act reasonable, punishment for betrayal has always been provided in all countries. And rightly so, because we are talking about the survival of the country and the people. The destruction of traitors is like amputation for gangrene or removal of worms. There is no humanism here.
The act of betrayal is connected precisely with the consciousness of the action. That is, the person understands what he is doing.
A small nuance - there is no justification for betrayal. They try to find him only the same freaks as the traitor himself. For example, they attribute the fight against the regime to a traitor.”
For us, betrayal is also an act for which they do not forgive. There is no statute of limitations for him. And we will remember this when we go to the information barricades.
And we will remember if we happen to meet on the real ones.
Not all of the Bandera after the war were found and convicted. However, even those who were put on trial did not receive the longest terms of imprisonment. It is interesting that in the zones the Bandera continued their struggle, organizing mass uprisings.
To the history of the movement
In 1921, the UVO was created in Ukraine - the Ukrainian military organization, designed to fight for the independence of the Ukrainian people after the defeat of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which existed from 1917 to 1920, and was transformed thanks to the successful offensive of the Red Army in the Ukrainian SSR. The UVO was supported by youth nationalist organizations and the later established Union of Ukrainian Nationalist Youth. Similar organizations were created among Ukrainian emigrants in Czechoslovakia - these were the Union of Ukrainian Fascists and the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, which later merged into one league. At the same time, Ukrainians in Germany also actively united in nationalist unions, and soon the first conferences of Ukrainian nationalists were held in Prague and Berlin. In 1929, the UVO and other unions of Ukrainian nationalists unite into one large Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), while the UVO actually becomes a military-terrorist body of the OUN. One of the main goals of the Ukrainian nationalists was the fight against Poland, one of the manifestations of which was the famous anti-Polish “Sabotage action” of 1930: during the action, representatives of the OUN attacked state institutions in Galicia and set fire to the houses of Polish landowners living there.
Bandera's politics
In 1931, Stepan Bandera entered the OUN, a man whom fate will soon become the head of the entire Ukrainian liberation movement and a symbol of Ukrainian nationalism to this day. Bandera studied at the German intelligence school and soon became the regional conductor of Western Ukraine. Bandera is repeatedly detained by the authorities: for anti-Polish propaganda, illegal border crossing and for involvement in the assassination attempt. He organized protests against the famine in Ukraine and against the purchase of Polish products by Ukrainians; on the day of the execution of OUN militants in Lvov, Bandera organized a rally during which a synchronous bell ringing was heard throughout the city. The so-called “school action” became especially effective, during which Ukrainian schoolchildren, instructed in advance, refused to study with Polish teachers and threw Polish symbols out of schools. Stepan Bandera organized a series of assassination attempts on Polish and Soviet officials. 
After the assassination of Polish Interior Minister Bronisław Peracki. For the preparation of this and other murders, Bandera was sentenced to hanging in 1935, which, however, was soon replaced with life imprisonment. During the trial, Bandera and other organizers of the crime greeted each other with Roman salutes and exclamations of “Glory to Ukraine!”, refusing to answer the court in Polish. After this trial, which received a great public outcry, the structure of the OUN is revealed by the Polish authorities, and the nationalist organization actually ceases to exist. In 1938, during the intensification of Hitler's political activities, the OUN is resurrected and hopes for Germany's help in creating the Ukrainian state. OUN theorist Mikhail Kolodzinsky wrote at that time about plans to conquer Europe: “We want not only to possess Ukrainian cities, but also to trample on enemy lands, capture enemy capitals, and salute the Ukrainian Empire on their ruins ... We want to win the war - a great and cruel war which will make us the masters of Eastern Europe.” During the Polish campaign of the Wehrmacht, the OUN provided little support to the German troops, and during the German offensive in 1939, Bandera was released. After that, his activities are mainly connected with the resolution of disagreements that have arisen in the OUN between Bandera's supporters - Bandera, and Melnikov's supporters of the current leader of the organization. 
The political struggle turned into a military one, and since the enmity of two essentially identical organizations was unprofitable for Germany, all the more so since both organizations nurtured the idea of a national Ukrainian state, which no longer suited Germany, and so successfully advancing to the east, mass arrests soon took place Bandera and Melnikovites by the German authorities, and in 1941 Bandera was imprisoned and then transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In the fall of 1944, Bandera, as a "Ukrainian freedom fighter", was released by the German authorities. Despite the fact that it was considered inexpedient to take Bandera to Ukraine, the OUN continues to fight the Soviet regime until about the mid-1950s, cooperating with Western intelligence services during the Cold War. In 1959, Stepan Bandera was assassinated by KGB agent Bogdan Stashinsky in Munich. 
Bandera at trials
During the period of active struggle against the UPA and OUN in 1941-1949, according to the NKVD, thousands of military operations were carried out, during which tens of thousands of Ukrainian nationalists were killed. Many families of UPA members were deported from the Ukrainian SSR, thousands of families were arrested and evicted to other regions. One of the well-known precedents of the trial of Bandera is a show trial in 1941 of 59 students and students of Lvov, suspected of having links with the OUN and anti-Soviet activities. The youngest was 15 years old, the eldest - 30. The investigation lasted about four months, and during its course it was found out that many of the young people were ordinary members of the OUN, but the students pleaded not guilty and declared that they were enemies of the Soviet regime. Initially, 42 people were sentenced to death, and 17 wanted to be sentenced to 10 years in prison. 
However, the Collegium of the Supreme Court eventually softened the sentence, and 19 convicts were shot, while others were given terms of 4 to 10 years in prison. One of the students was deported abroad. You can also recall the mention of Ukrainian nationalists at the famous Nuremberg Trials. General Lahausen, speaking as a witness, directly stated that the Ukrainian nationalists collaborated with the German government: "These detachments were supposed to carry out acts of sabotage behind enemy lines and organize comprehensive sabotage." However, despite the obvious evidence of the participation of Bandera and other members of the split OUN in the fight against the Soviet Union, Ukrainian nationalists were not defendants at the Nuremberg trial. In the USSR, a law was not even adopted condemning the OUN and the UPA, but the fight against the nationalist underground continued until the mid-1950s, and was, in fact, separate specific punitive acts. 
Those from the OUN and UPA who survived the bloody battles with the Soviet troops and were not sentenced to death, in the bulk went to the Gulag. The typical fate of a convicted Banderite is 10 years in prison in Irkutsk, Norilsk and other Gulag camps. However, wages were paid for work in the camp and even camp labor was read out as for working days. The huge mass of collaborators, hundreds of thousands of people, represented a serious force, and it is not surprising that after the trial and several years of exile in the camps, they organized a series of powerful uprisings. The main force was the OUN, but the Baltic partisans and Russian punishers also participated in organizing the riots. The exiled Ukrainian nationalists had a well-built hierarchy, similar to the one that was actually in the wild, and therefore they managed to first overcome the “thieves”, and then, using the skills of underground organization and conspiracy already tested in practice, try to free several prisoners and arrange riots. 
Prisoners in the camps recall: “We rejoiced when the death of Stalin was announced in March 1953. In May 1953, two months after Stalin's death, an uprising broke out in the Norilsk Gorlag. I think that this uprising was the beginning of the long process of the death of Stalinism, which, thirty years later, led to the collapse of Soviet power and the Soviet Union. Max and I took an active part in this uprising, the main driving force of which was the Ukrainians of Western Ukraine, supporters of Stepan Bandera. Later in the camps, it was the convicted OUN members who staged strikes and refused to give out coal without fulfilling the requirements necessary for them, for example, amnesties. Bandera, after difficult negotiations, nevertheless managed to achieve some benefits: they were given a 9-hour working day, they were allowed to meet and correspond with relatives, transfer money earned to families, increase salaries, etc. However, the prisoners wanted only one thing: release. Their strikes were brutally suppressed, at the cost of the lives of dozens of prisoners. However, these strikes were only the beginning. The continuing bold antics of Bandera in the camps led to the fact that in 1955 they were declared an amnesty in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Victory. According to official documents, as of August 1, 1956, more than 20,000 OUN members returned from exile and prisons to the western lands of the USSR, including 7,000 to the Lvov region. 
Recently, the word "Bandera" has become more and more popular, it is especially loved by the "truthful" Russian media, scaring Russians with terrible Bandera from western Ukraine, without exception walking around with machine guns and drinking the blood of Russian babies. At the same time, they often confuse Bandera and Bendera (who are Bendera - residents of the city of Bender, in Moldova, or maybe a fan club of fans of Ostap Bender from the imperishable work of Ilf and Petrov "12"?). And what do we see? Yes, elementary ignorance, including about the historical figure of Stepan Bandera and the notorious Bandera, whom the same media also for some reason call fascists. But are Bandera fascists? And indeed, such terrible Bandera people (here I mean those real Bandera people who lived, fought, fought and died during the Second World War, and not their modern followers). And who is Stepan Bandera, who is this legendary man who lived such a life that even after his death several more Russian generations are afraid of him?
Stepan was born on the newest year, on January 1, 1909, in the village of Stary Ugrinov, in Western Ukraine, in the family of the Greek Catholic priest Andrei Bandera. The family was large (however, then most families had many children), in addition to Stepan, the Bander family had five more children. They lived not richly, but amicably, among other things, the father managed to instill in his son not only religiosity (according to the memoirs of contemporaries, Stepan Bandera was a deeply religious person), but also political views. After all, a simple Greek Catholic priest Andriy Bandera was also a staunch Ukrainian nationalist (I personally prefer the word "patriot"), an ardent supporter of the restoration of the Ukrainian state (western Ukraine at that time was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). And as a result, he actively participated in the political life of Galicia, including his native village of Stary Ugrinov. So, through his efforts, a reading room of the “Prosvita” society, a circle “Native School” was created in the village.
When little Stepan was only 5 years old, the First World War broke out. The guy witnessed the fighting many times, as the front line passed by his native village several times. Once, during an artillery shelling, even half of the house where the Bander family lived was destroyed, but fortunately none of the family members were injured. But towards the end of the war, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire (grandmother Austria) began to burst at the seams and eventually fall apart, Stepan's father, Andriy Bandera, joined as a chaplain in the newly formed Ukrainian Galician Army (it was formed from the Ukrainian units of the Austro-Hungarian Army ), and subsequently defending the interests of the ZUNR (Western Ukrainian People's Republic), fought with the Poles (the battle for Lviv in November 1918 was especially epic). But, unfortunately, then the Ukrainian troops were defeated and the dream of many Ukrainian patriots did not come true - Ukraine was once again divided.
But back to Stepan Bandera. When the fighting subsided, the Bander family returned to civilian life again, the father continued his priestly service, and the young Stepan moved to the Polish (at that time) city of Stryi, where his paternal grandparents lived. In Stryi, he entered one of the few Ukrainian classical gymnasiums, where he received a good education. In addition, Stepan became an active member of the Ukrainian scout organization Plast.
Here is a good photo from those times, still very young Stepan Bandera in a plastun uniform, 1923.
Thus passed the youthful years of our hero, and already in 1928 Stepan moved to the city of Lviv, where he entered the agronomic faculty of the Lviv Polytechnic (your author also has a diploma from this glorious university with almost two hundred years of history). And at the same time, just like his father, he is active in politics. For example, he heads the movement of nationalist Ukrainian youth. All this happens mostly underground, because the Polish authorities in the interwar period did not approve of the Ukrainian nationalist movements and took active steps to suppress them, to nullify them. Already in 1930, the Plast society was officially banned, a number of Ukrainian newspapers were closed.
At that time, Stepan Bandera begins his small-big struggle, joins the organization of Ukrainian nationalists - the OUN, which he will soon head. But before becoming the head of the OUN, Stepan Bandera is engaged in active propaganda, prints and distributes underground nationalist newspapers: Gorn, Awakening the Nation, Ukrainian Nationalist. There was no Internet in those days, but newspapers were exactly what you needed. The Polish police followed on his heels and in the end even arrested our hero several times.
It is interesting that during the years of artificial Stalinist famine in the territory of central and eastern Ukraine, the OUN organization under the leadership of Stepan Bandera carried out a number of protests in support of the starving Ukrainians (by the way, does it seem paradoxical to you that the population of today's eastern Ukrainian regions, which actively supports pro-Russian sentiments perhaps the most affected by the Holodomor in the 30s of the last century?).
Finally, the time has come when the OUN organization came to openly terrorist actions. For example, during the Holodomor, an attempt was made (though unsuccessful) to eliminate the Soviet consul in Lvov. Also, the OUN was involved in the murder of several Polish officials, but the most resonant was the murder of Bronislaw Peracki, the then Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland. OUN leaders, including Stepan Bandera, were arrested in 1936 on charges of organizing the murder. The court first imposed capital punishment - execution, but then replaced the punishment with life imprisonment. So, Stepan Bandera spent time in a Polish prison until the start of World War II.
But before we go further, let's think a little about whether the activities of the OUN and Stepan Bandera proper were good or bad, whether it was necessary to resort to terrorist actions, because peaceful protests could also be held. And by the way, there were also peaceful protests, just as now Ukrainians boycott Russian goods, and before that they boycotted goods and businesses from the Party of Regions, Western Ukrainians of the 30s boycotted Polish goods, Ukrainian schoolchildren and students fundamentally ignored the lessons and lectures of Polish teachers, communicated exclusively in Ukrainian. But unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) Stepan Bandera was not a supporter of the ideas of his no less famous contemporary - and yes, those Polish officials or figures who wanted to suppress the Ukrainian idea did not feel safe.
World War II turned everything upside down. Events developed rapidly. Very soon, Poland was completely occupied and dismembered by two totalitarian regimes: Soviet and German. And already in 1939, Stepan Bandera, who was given a "life sentence", was released. For two weeks he comes to Lvov, now occupied by Soviet troops. There, in a safe house, he gathers former comrades in the OUN, and announces the main course to fight the Bolsheviks.
At the same time, there was a certain split in the OUN itself, where another leader, Andrei Melnik, came to the fore. Between him and Bandera there is an ideological (rather even geopolitical) dispute, the essence of which is as follows: Melnik relies on an alliance with Nazi Germany, Stepan Bandera, on the contrary, suggests relying only on his own strength. Finally, later history itself confirms his correctness. And here we come to the question posed at the very beginning of this article - were the Bandera fascists? And the unequivocal answer is no. The fact is that from the very beginning of the German military campaign against the Soviet Union (what Soviet and modern Russian historians call the “Great Patriotic War”), the wing of the OUN, led by Stepan Bandera, proclaimed Ukrainian independence.
And this is the house of Enlightenment in the very center of ancient Lviv, near which the proclamation of Ukrainian independence took place. But only the German command did not like it very much and soon the patriotic Ukrainians were dispersed, Stepan Bandera himself was arrested again and until 1944 he was in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen. The followers of Stepan Bandera, who received this name - Bandera, again went underground, at the same time creating the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - which fought against the German fascists, and of course later with the Soviet Red Army. Therefore, a completely logical question arises, what kind of Bandera fascists, when they fought with real authentic fascists with no less zeal than with the Bolsheviks?
Of course, among the Ukrainians there were also collaborators who took the side of Nazi Germany, the most famous among them is the SS division "Galicia". But the SS division "Galicia" is not Bandera, and not the UPA. The only thing that united them was their “ardent love” for Bolshevism. But in fairness, it should be noted that among the Russians there were numerous collaborators - the Vlasov division (which included captured Soviet soldiers who decided to switch sides), the Rusland division, the Kuban Cossacks, the Russian Corps (consisting of former white officers , who at one time fled from Bolshevik Russia), and they all fought on the side of the Germans with the same Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians. And only Bandera fought with everything, with the Germans, the Soviets, even the Polish partisans of the Craiova Army, only for the sake of one noble goal - the restoration of Ukrainian statehood. Therefore, how can one call Ukrainian patriots who fought for their independence, moreover, on their native land, fascists.
And one more interesting fact - the second person in the UPA, one of the odious leaders of the Ukrainian liberation struggle - General Roman Shukhevych sheltered a Jewish girl in his family. And in general, unlike real collaborators, the Banderaites repeatedly helped Jews to hide and made fake documents for them.
Returning to the identity of Bandera, after leaving the German concentration camp in 1944, he no longer returned to Ukraine, continuing to manage the underground movement from abroad. After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union, of course, demanded that the West give them the "terrible criminal" Stepan Bandera, but the West showed the fiddle. It is said that after the war, Bandera began cooperating with the British intelligence services, helping them find and train spies to be sent to the Soviet Union. Interestingly, ironically, the department of British intelligence was headed by a certain Keen Figley, who, as it turned out later, was a double agent, and in fact worked for Moscow. It is likely that it was this werewolf who handed over our Stepan to the NKVD agents, who at that time had already begun a real hunt for the Ukrainian figure (but this is only an assumption, because who knows these spies).
There were several attempts to assassinate Stepan Bandera, but the OUN security service, together with the German police, actually managed to prevent several attempts. The NKVD, which had already been renamed the KGB at that time, nevertheless, did not leave the intention of liquidating it, and in the end, on October 15, 1959, at the entrance to the house of Kraitmair Street, 7, KGB agent Bogdan Stashinsky fired his fatal shot ... So a man died, Ukrainian patriot and nationalist, tireless fighter for Ukrainian independence, Stepan Bandera, whose life continues to inspire future generations of Ukrainians and frighten future generations of Russians.
Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!
In Ukraine, 5 million 300 thousand civilians died at the hands of the Nazis, 2 million 300 thousand able-bodied Ukrainian women and Ukrainians were driven to Germany.
850,000 Jews, 220,000 Poles, more than 400,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and another 500,000 civilian Ukrainians died at the hands of punishers - Bandera. 20 thousand soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and law enforcement agencies were killed, approximately 4-5 thousand of their own "warriors" of the UPA, who were not "active and nationally conscious" enough.
June 30, 1941. The Nachtigall Battalion, under the command of R. Shukhevych, who broke into Lviv at dawn together with the German advanced units, in the first days destroyed more than 3 thousand Poles from Lviv, including 70 world-famous scientists. And within a week, R. Shukhevych's "Nachtigal" battalion brutally annihilated about 7,000 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly. Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky held a divine service in the courtyard of the Svyatoyura Cathedral in honor of "the invincible German army and its chief leader, Adolf Hitler." With the blessing of the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the mass extermination of civilians in Ukraine began by Bandera, Nakhtigalev, Upovtsy and warriors of the SS division "Galicia". 
R. Shukhevych.
Created with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War by an Abwehr agent, a member of the Chernivtsi regional OUN wire, Voynovsky, Bukovinsky kuren (about 500 people) arrived in Kyiv on September 22, 1941, where from September 28 he took part in the massacre of innocent people of different nationalities in BABY YARU. Then 350 thousand people were deprived of their lives, including 160 thousand Jews, of which 50 thousand were children! And not only took part, but was the main executor of this bloody battle. For these atrocities and cannibalism, for zeal in the service of fascism, Voinovsky was awarded the rank of SS major.
Among the 1,500 punishers at Babi Yar, there were 1,200 policemen from the OUN and only 300 Germans! 
At the beginning of 1942, the Nachtigal battalion was reorganized into the 201st SS police battalion and, led by Captain Shukhevych, was sent to Belarus to fight partisans. It was the Nakhtigalevites who wiped off the face of the earth the Belarusian village of KHATYN, the Volyn village of KORBELISY, in which over 2,800 civilians were killed and burned, mostly children, women, the elderly and the sick.
On February 9, 1943, Bandera from the gang of Pyotr Netovich, under the guise of Soviet partisans, entered the Polish village of Parosle near Vladimirets, Rivne region. The peasants, who had previously provided assistance to the partisans, warmly welcomed the guests. After eating plenty, the bandits began to rape women and girls. Before they were killed, their chests, noses and ears were cut off. Then they began to torture the rest of the villagers. Men were stripped of their genitals before they died. Finished off with blows of an ax on the head. 
Two teenagers, the Gorshkevich brothers, who tried to call real partisans for help, had their bellies cut open, their legs and arms cut off, their wounds were poured with salt, leaving the half-dead to die in the field. In total, 173 people, including 43 children, were brutally tortured in this village.
In one of the houses on the table among the leftovers and unfinished bottles of moonshine lay a dead one-year-old child, whose naked body was nailed to the table boards with a bayonet. The monsters put a half-eaten pickled cucumber into his mouth.
March 1943 In the outskirts of Huta Stepanska, Stepan commune, Kostopil district, Ukrainian nationalists stole 18 Polish girls by deception, who were killed after being raped. The bodies of the girls were placed side by side, and a ribbon was placed on them with the inscription: “This is how the frogs should die.” 
On March 7, 1943, in the district of Terazh (Lutsk district), Bandera captured several Polish children in the pasture, who were muzzled in the nearest forest.
On May 5, 1943, in Lipniki (Kostopol district), three-year-old Stasik Pavlyuk was smashed in the head against the wall, holding him by the legs.
On June 8, 1943, in the village of Chertozh-Vodnik (Rivne district), the upovtsy, in the absence of their parents' home, muzzled the three children of the Bronevskys: Vladislav, 14 years old, Elena, 10 years old, and Henry, 12 years old.
On July 11, 1943, during the service of God, Bandera attacked the village of Osmigovichi and killed believers. A week later, our village was attacked... The little children were thrown into the well, and the big ones were locked up in the basement and filled up. One Banderite, holding the baby by the legs, hit his head against the wall. The mother of that baby screamed until she was pierced with a bayonet.
July 11, 1943 Biskupichi village, Mykulichi commune, Vladimir-Volynsky district. Ukrainian nationalists committed a massacre, herding residents into a school building. Then the family of Vladislav Yaskula was brutally murdered. The executioners broke into the house when everyone was asleep. Parents and five children were killed with axes, they were all put together, covered with straw from mattresses and set on fire.
On July 11, in Kalusovo (Vladimir district), during the massacre, the Upovites muzzled the two-month-old baby Iosif Fili, tore him by the legs, and put the parts of the calf on the table. 
July 12, 1943 Colonia Maria Volya, commune Mykulychi, Vladimir-Volynsky district. Around 15.00, Ukrainian nationalists surrounded her and began to muzzle the Poles, using firearms, axes, knives, pitchforks and sticks. About 200 people (45 families) died. Some of the people, about 30 people, were thrown alive into a well and there they were killed with stones. Those who fled were chased down and finished off. During this massacre, the Ukrainian Didukh was ordered to kill a Polish woman and two children. When he did not comply with the order, they killed him, his wife and two children. Eighteen children aged 3 to 12, who hid in the grain fields, were caught by the criminals, put on a bed cart, brought to the village of Chestny Krest and killed there, punched with pitchforks, chopped with axes. The action was led by Kwasnitsky.
August 29-30, 1943, by order of the commander of the so-called military district of the OUN "Oleg" on
On the territory of Kovelsky, Lyubomlsky and Turinsky districts of the Volyn region, several hundred people of the UPA under the leadership of Yury Stelmashchuk massacred the entire Polish population. They plundered all their property and burned their farms. In total, in these areas, on August 29 and 30, 1943, more than 15 thousand people were slaughtered and shot by Bandera, among whom there were many elderly people, women and children. 
They drove the entire population to one place without exception, surrounded it and began the massacre. After there was not a single living person left, they dug large pits, dumped all the corpses into them and covered them with earth. To hide the traces of this terrible action, we kindled fires on the graves. So they completely destroyed dozens of small villages and farms ... "
In mid-September 1943, about 3,000 residents of Polish nationality were killed and stabbed to death by UPA gangs in the Gorokhovsky and former Senkivichsky districts of the Volyn region. It is characteristic that one of the groups of the UPA was led by a priest of the autocephalous church, who was in the OUN, who absolved his flock of sins for the atrocities committed. People were laid on the ground in rows, face down, and then shot. Once again laying down people for execution, a Bandera man shot a 3-4-year-old boy. The bullet blew off the top of his skull. The child got up, began to scream and run from one side to the other with an open pulsating brain. Bandera continued to shoot, and the child ran until the next bullet calmed him ...
On November 11, 1943, on the orders of commander Laidaki, one hundred (company. Auth.), led by Nedotypolsky, went to liquidate the Polish colony Khvashchevat. The whole colony was burned, 10 Poles were killed... 45 horses were taken away... 
In the autumn of 1943, the soldiers of the "army of the immortals" killed dozens of Polish children in the village of Lozova, Ternopil district. In the alley, they "decorated" the trunk of each tree with the corpse of a child who had been killed before.
According to Western researcher Alexander Korman, the corpses were nailed to trees in such a way as to create the appearance of a “wreath”.
Yu.Kh. from Poland: “In March 1944, our village of Guta Shklyana, commune Lopatyn, was attacked by Bandera, among them was one named Didukh from the village of Oglyadov. Five people were killed, cut in half. A minor was raped."
March 16, 1944 Stanislavshchina: group "L" and group "Garkusha" in the amount of 30 persons destroyed 25 Poles ...
On March 19, 1944, a group "L" and a county fighter in the amount of 23 people held an action in the village. Zelenivka (Tovmachchin). 13 farms were burned, 16 Poles were killed. 
On March 28, 1944, Sulima's group of 30 people destroyed 18 Poles ...
On March 29, 1944, the Semyon group liquidated 12 Poles in Pererosl and burned 18 farms ...
April 1, 1944 Ternopil region: killed in the village. White 19 Poles, 11 households burned
April 2, 1944 Ternopil region: nine Poles were killed, two Jewish women who were in the service of the Poles ...
On April 5, 1944, the Zaliznyak regional group carried out an action in Porogy and Yablintsy. Six houses were burned, 16 Poles were destroyed ...
April 5, 1944 Kholmshchina: the groups "Galaida" and "Tigers" carried out a liquidation action against the colonies: Gubynok, Lupche, Polediv, Zharnyky ... In addition, the self-defense group "Fox" destroyed the colony Marysin and Radkiv, and the Orla group - Polish colonies in Riplyn. Several dozen Polish soldiers and many civilians were killed.” 
On April 9, 1944, the Nechay group liquidated in the village. Pasichnaya 25 Poles...
On April 11, 1944, the Dovbush group liquidated 81 Poles in Rafaylovo.
April 14, 1944 Ternopil region: 38 Poles were killed...
April 15, 1944 in the village. Fat 66 Poles were killed, 23 households were burned...
On April 16, 1944, the Dovbush group liquidated in the village. Green 20 Poles...”.
On April 27, 1944, the district fighting liquidated 55 men and five women Poles in the village of Ulatsko-Seredkevichi. At the same time, about 100 farms were burned ... And further in this report, figures are given in detail, with accounting accuracy, more precisely, detailed statements about the number of liquidated Poles by the UPA group: “Streams - 3 (local), Lyubich-Koleitsy - 3 (local). )..., Lyubich - 10 (beige)..., Tyagliv - 15 (women, local) and 44 (unknown)..., Zabirye - 30 (local and unknown), Rivers - 15 ( local and unknown).
April 17, 1944 Khovkovshchina: the UPA group (Gromovoy) and the Dovbush combat unit destroyed the Polish stronghold of Stanislivok. At the same time, about 80 Polish men were liquidated.
April 19, 1944 Lyubachivshchina: the UPA group "Avengers" destroyed the Polish village of Rutka, the village was burned and 80 Poles liquidated ...
From April 30, 1944 - to May 12, 1944 in the village. Glibovichi killed 42 Poles; near the villages: Myseva - 22, Township - 36, Zarubina - 27, Bechas - 18, Nedylyska - 19, Grabnik -19, Galina - 80, Zhabokrug - 40 Poles. All actions were carried out by the district militia with the help of the Orly UPA
In the summer of 1944, a hundred "Igor" stumbled in the Paridub forest on a camp of gypsies who had fled from the persecution of the Nazis. The bandits robbed them and brutally killed them. They cut them with saws, strangled them with strangleholds, chopped them into pieces with axes. In total, 140 gypsies were killed, including 67 children. 
From the village of Volkovya one night, Bandera brought a whole family into the forest. For a long time they mocked the unfortunate people. Seeing that the wife of the head of the family was pregnant, they cut open her stomach, pulled the fetus out of it, and instead pushed in a live rabbit.
One night, the bandits broke into the Ukrainian village of Lozovaya. Over 100 peaceful peasants were killed within 1.5 hours. A bandit with an ax in his hands broke into the hut of Nastya Dyagun and hacked to death her three sons. The smallest, four-year-old Vladik, cut off his arms and legs. In Makukha's hut, the killers found two children, three-year-old Ivasik and ten-month-old Joseph. A ten-month-old child, seeing a man, was delighted and with a laugh stretched out her hands to him, showing her four teeth. But the ruthless bandit slashed the baby's head with a knife, and cut his head with an ax to his brother Ivasik.
After the warriors of the “army of the immortals” left the village, dead bodies were found on the bed, on the floor and on the stove in the hut of the peasant Kuzi. Splashes of human brain and blood froze on the walls and ceiling. Bandera's ax cut short the lives of six innocent children: the eldest of them was 9 years old, and the youngest was 3 years old. 
Ch.B. from the USA: “On Podlesye, that was the name of the village, the Bandera people muzzled four from the family of the miller Petrushevsky, while the 17-year-old Adolfina was dragged along a rocky rural road until she died.”
F.B. from Canada: “Bandera came to our yard, grabbed our father and cut off his head with an ax, our sister was pierced with a stake. Mom, seeing this, died of a broken heart.
Yu.V. from the UK: “My brother's wife was Ukrainian. Because she married a Pole, 18 Bandera raped her. She didn’t get out of this shock ... she drowned herself in the Dniester.”
At night, from the village of Khmyzovo, a village girl of seventeen years old, or even younger, was brought to the forest. Her fault was that she, along with other rural girls, went to dances when a military unit of the Red Army was stationed in the village. "Kubik" saw the girl and asked "Varnak" for permission to personally interrogate her. He demanded that she confess that she was "walking" with the soldiers. The girl swore that it was not. “And I’ll check it now,” “Kubik” grinned, sharpening a pine stick with a knife. In a moment, he jumped up to the prisoner and with the sharp end of the stick began to poke her between her legs until he drove a pine stake into the girl's genitals.
The same young girl Motrya Panasyuk was tortured by Bandera for a long time, and then her heart was torn out of her chest.
Thousands of Ukrainians died a terrible, martyr's death. 
R. Shukhevych's henchmen from the Security Council waged a merciless fight against the Soviet partisans and underground fighters. In confirmation, here is another document from the Rivne archive:
“10/21/43 ... 7 Bolshevik scouts were captured, who were going from Kamenets-Podolsky to Polissya. After the investigation, evidence was obtained that these were Bolshevik intelligence officers, and they
destroyed... On October 28, 1943, a teacher-scammer was destroyed in the village of Bogdanovka, Koretsky district... In the village of Trostyanets, 1 house was burned down and a family was thrown into the fire alive... Headquarters. 10/31/43 Chef R. 1 V. Zima.
Nurse Yashchenko D.P. - Soon we witnessed how the OUN slaughtered entire hospitals, which at first they left in the rear as before - without guards. They carved stars on the body of the wounded, cut off their ears, tongues, genitals. They mocked the defenseless liberators of their land from the Nazis as they wanted. And now we are told that these so-called "patriots" of Ukraine fought only with the "punishers" of the NKVD. All this is a lie! What kind of patriots are they?! This is a rabid animal.
A policeman from the village of Ratno, Volyn region, A. Koshelyuk, while serving with the Germans, personally shot about a hundred civilians. He took part in the destruction of the population of the village of Kortelis, which received the name of the "Ukrainian Lidice" among the people. Later he joined the UPA. In the police and the UPA he was known under the nickname Dorosh.
Roman Shukhevych: “... The OUN can act in such a way that, having recognized the radian power, we will be poor. Do not zalyakuvati, but physically snicker! It is not necessary to be afraid that people will curse us for being greedy. Out of 40 million of the Ukrainian population, half will be deprived - there is nothing terrible for them ... ". 
Bandera, who improved the skill of executioners in the German police units and the SS troops, literally excelled in the art of torturing defenseless people. Chuprinka (R. Shukhevych) served as an example for them, encouraging such studies in every possible way.
When the whole world was healing the wounds inflicted on humanity by the most terrible of all previous wars, Shukhevych's thugs killed more than 80 thousand people in Western Ukrainian lands. The overwhelming majority of those who died were peaceful people of civilian professions far from politics. A significant percentage of those who died at the hands of nationalist murderers were innocent children and the elderly.
In the village of Svatovo, four female teachers who were tortured to death by Shukhevych's henchmen are well remembered. For being from the Soviet Donbass! 
Raisa Borzilo, teacher, p. Pervomaisk. Before her execution, the nationalists accused her of promoting the Soviet system at school. The Bandera people gouged her eyes out alive, cut off her tongue, then put a noose of wire around her neck and dragged her into the field.
There are thousands of such examples.
Here is what one of the organizers of the genocide on the lands of Western Ukraine told the commander of the UPA group Fyodor Vorobets after his detention by law enforcement agencies:
“... I do not deny that under my leadership a large number of atrocities were committed against ... civilians, not to mention the mass destruction of OUN-UPA members suspected of collaborating with Soviet authorities ... Suffice it to say that in one in the regions of Sarnensky, Bereznovsky, Klesovsky, Rokitnyansky, Dubrovetsky, Vysotsky and other regions of the Rovno region and in two regions of the Pinsk region of the Byelorussian SSR, gangs and fighters of the Security Service subordinate to me, according to reports received by me, in one 1945 destroyed six thousand Soviet citizens..."
(Criminal case of F. Vorobets. Kept in the SBU Department for the Volyn region.). 
The result of the exhumation of the victims of the massacre of Poles in the villages of Ostrówka and Vola Ostrovetska carried out on August 17-22, 1992, committed by OUN-UPA monsters - The total number of victims in the two listed villages is 2,000 Poles.
In accordance with the norms of the International Tribunal, such acts are qualified as war crimes and crimes against humanity, and as having no statute of limitations!!!
The actions of the Banderaites can only be called GENOCIDE against humanity, and is it worth recalling that the hands of the bandits from the UPA were stained with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Belarusians and Russians killed during the establishment of the “new world order” in Ukraine. In many Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian cities, monuments to the victims of the Bandera GENOCIDE should be erected! It is necessary to publish a book "In memory of the victims of the GENOCIDE who died at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists and Bandera." 
The main organizer of the genocide of Poles and Jews was Chuprynka (R. Shukhevych), who issued a special order that read:
“Treat Jews the same way as Poles and Gypsies: destroy mercilessly, spare no one... Take care of doctors, pharmacists, chemists, nurses; keep them under guard... The Jews used for digging bunkers and building fortifications, upon completion of work, shall be liquidated without publicity..."
(Prus E. Holokost po banderowsku. Wroclaw, 1995). 
The souls of the innocent victims are crying out for a fair trial for the brutal murderers - Ukrainian nationalists from the OUN-UPA!
OUN-UPA crimes have no statute of limitations.
Already on February 9, 1943, Bandera, under the guise of red partisans (this is the question of "dressing up parts of the NKVD as Bandera"), entered the Polish village of Parosle. The peasants, who managed to make friends with the partisans, warmly welcomed the guests. Enough
Having drunk themselves, the bandits began to rape and then kill women and girls. Before they were killed, their chests, noses and ears were cut off. Then they began to torture the rest of the villagers. Before death, the men's genitals, noses, tongues and ears were cut off. Finished off with blows
ax to the head.
Two teenagers, the Gorshkevich brothers, who tried to call for help from real partisans, had their stomachs cut open, their legs and arms cut off, and the wounds were covered with salt, leaving the half-dead to die in the field. In total, 173 people were tortured in the village, including 43 children.
In one house, among scraps and moonshine bottles, real partisans who entered the village the next day found a one-year-old child pinned to the table with a bayonet. OUN merry fellows stuffed a half-eaten sauerkraut into his mouth.
Also in Kalusovo, Vladimir district, two-month-old Joseph Fil
they tore it apart by the legs, and put the parts of the calf on the table.
In general, the Bandera people had a special tenderness for innocent Polish children.
In the village of Lozova in the Ternopil region, they "decorated" the trunk of each tree
the corpse of a child who had been killed before.
According to the British researcher Korman, children were nailed to trees in such a way as to create the appearance of a “wreath”.
The Bandera people called this alley "the road to independent Ukraine."
And on July 13, the Bandera people “registered” the main street in Dry Vine into another
"The path to independence", impaled 50 children on a picket fence.
During the attack on Terebeiki in August 1943, adult Poles were cut with saws like logs, while children were killed with axes or drowned in a well. Similarly, in the summer of 1944, a hundred "Igor" "sawed" 140 gypsies, including 67 children.
In the village of Osmigovichi, in July 1943, the Banderists threw small children into
well, and the big ones were closed in the basement and filled up.
One warrior, holding the baby by the legs, hit his head against the wall. And so that the mother of the baby did not interfere with having fun, she was pierced with a bayonet. But in general, mothers are not particularly
bothered Bandera, because, as a rule, they died of a broken heart, seeing
martyrdom of their children.
A few months ago, on Sparrow Night, armed men came to a peasant hut not far from the city of Sarny and stabbed the owners to death. The girl, eyes wide with horror, looked at the agony of her parents. One of the gangsters put the point of a knife to the throat of a child, but at the last minute a new idea was born in his brain: “Live for the glory of Stepan Bandera! pork!"
The boys liked this offer. A few minutes later, in front of the girl, numb with horror, a mountain of meat grew from her bleeding father and mother ... "
This cannibalistic scene was captured by Yaroslav Galan, a Ukrainian writer.