Honor and Glory to the heroes of OUN UPA

History of Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Inextricably linked with the name Roman Shukhevich person who created the army and this led her for seven years until his death. He was born June 30, 1907 in Lviv, Ukrainian family of famous intellectuals Shukhevychiv . In his younger years was active in public life , particularly in the "reservoir" . He studied at Lviv Polytechnic and conservatory. In 1925 he was eighteen young man entered the Ukrainian Military Organization and, therefore , in 1929 , the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. During the years 1930-1934 Shuhevich led military Referenty Executive Board UNO. Under his direct leadership of OUN members made ​​a number of daring acts of war . For this he was arrested by the Polish police and left prison. TPislya release from prison in 1937 he founded and headed the first and most famous Ukrainian Galicia advertising company " Fama ". In 1939 Shuhevich was one of the defenders of the newly Carpatho- Ukraine . Together with leading members of the OUN he went to the headquarters of " Carpathian Sich ". After the defeat of the Zaporozhian in an unequal struggle with the Hungarian army Shuhevich not stopped their activities and actively participated in the preparation of the OUN to the war that was close . The main objective of the second world war and Ukrainian nationalists

consider creating their own armed forces. It was therefore decided to use the German aid and create two battalions " Nachtigall " and "Roland" , also known as the wife of Ukrainian Nationalists ( tung ), which had become the basis of future Ukrainian army. One of the commanders Tung was Shukhevych . June 30, 1941 , he led soldiers " Nachtigall " entered the city. The same day, the OUN proclaimed the Act of the Ukrainian State and established Ukrainian government. Shuhevich became Deputy Minister of Military Affairs . In autumn 1942 began the creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which was intended to resist the German and Soviet totalitarian regimes. In November 1943, the legendary chief commander of the UPA Shukhevych - " Taras Chuprynka ." On the eve of the return of the Soviet occupation in July 1944, merged Ukrainian political forces created underground

Parliament - Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council . General Secretariat headed UHVR Shukhevych . With the move of UPA in 1949 armed underground resistance to the totalitarian regime has acquired new forms and require uncommon sophistication , especially the leaders of the liberation movement . Despite the Herculean efforts of the NKVD, Roman Shuhevych valos even managed to go for treatment to the southern resorts. March 5, 1950 in the village . Bilohorscha around the city in the last battle against the invaders killed the commander of the army of immortals , general- lieutenant Shukhevych "Taras Chuprynka ."

Revolutionary flag Own ( UPA flag , flag OUNr , Bandera flag)

The tragic fate of the family of Stepan Bandera

Since the beginning of the Nazi occupation of Ukraine is one of the forces of resistance groups led by younger brother Stephen - Bogdan . He died in 1942 or 1943.

July 5, 1941 in Krakow Stepan Bandera was arrested. According to his wife, Yaroslav went to Berlin with a three-month daughter Natasha to be close to her husband. Bandera held first in prison and then - in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he stayed until 1944. Brothers Alexander ( Dr. economics ) and Basil ( Graduate Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Lviv ) in 1942 murdered Polish officers over - capo in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Andrei Mikhailovich Bandera - the father of Stephen, was killed by the Soviets. Oksana sisters Martha and Mary , in 1941, was arrested and exiled to Siberia (Krasnoyarsk Territory). The Soviet leaders for decades did not allow them to return to Ukraine - Marta María Bandera died in exile in 1982 , and the old Oksana Bandera returned home only in 1989, after almost 50 years of living in Siberia. She died on 24 December 2008 .

Another sister - Vladimir - was in Soviet labor camps from 1946 to 1956.

Leadership Decision of 30 June 1941 proclaimed the restoration of Ukrainian State in Lviv. This event was an attempt to " put before the fact " leadership of the Third Reich and the Ukrainian struggle to get recognized . However, Hitler ordered his police to immediately liquidate this " conspiracy Ukrainian Self ." Bandera Germans arrested a few days after the proclamation act of renewal Ukrainian State - July 5, 1941 . German prisoner was Stepan Bandera until December 1944 then fired him and several other leading members of the OUN from prison , trying to join their forces OUN- B and UPA as an ally against Moscow. Now the German proposal rejected Stepan Bandera.

At the National Meeting of the Organization wider -B in the Ukrainian lands in February 1945 , which was interpreted as part of a large collection of OUN -B, elected a new Bureau of wires in the following list: Bandera, Shukhevych Stetsko. This choice proved Conference of the night OUN-B in 1947 and then again Bandera became head of the Organization throughout the OUN -B. As the OUN -B , Bandera in the postwar period decides to continue the armed struggle against Moscow. He actively organizes edge communication and battle groups of OUN -B, which keep a constant contact with the land until his death.

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