Bandera and Banderaism: an attempt at an honest study. Political activities of Stepan Bandera

“A fourteen-year-old girl cannot calmly look at meat. When cutlets are being fried in her presence, she turns pale and trembles like an aspen leaf.

A few months ago, on a sparrow night, armed people came to a peasant hut, not far from the city of Sarny, and stabbed the owners with knives. The girl, eyes wide with horror, looked at the agony of her parents.

One of the bandits put 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! And so that something good does not die of hunger, we will leave food for you. Come on, lads, chop pork for her! ..

The “lads” liked this proposal. They dragged plates and bowls from the shelves, and a few minutes later, a mountain of meat from the bleeding bodies of her father and mother grew in front of the girl, numb with despair ...

In January 1940, a "split" occurred in the OUN: Bandera broke away from Melnik, the Gestapo twins separated. This was demanded by the interests of the twins... The roles were distributed as follows: Melnik was supposed to remain an obvious unconditional lackey of Berlin, Bandera - something like Azev. …

(In August 1939, at the II Great OUN gathering in Italy, Andrei Melnik was proclaimed the successor of the leader of the organization Yevgeny Konovalets, who was killed in Rotterdam. Some of the congress delegates spoke out against the election to the highest post of Melnik, preferring Stepan Bandera. Union with Germany he and his supporters were seen as temporary. Melnik, on the contrary, believed that the bet should be made on Nazi Germany. There was a split of the OUN into two factions - the OUN (b) (Bandera) and the OUN (m) (Melnikovites). In April 1941, Bandera's supporters convened their own II Great Gathering of Ukrainian nationalists. Spring 1941 OUN(b) received 2.5 million marks from the Abwehr to wage a subversive struggle against the USSR, B.I.)

On June 13, 1941, on the second day after the German invasion of Lviv, Bandera created his “government” for Ukraine (following the Nazis, the Nachtigall battalion led by Roman Shukhevych, B.I. entered Lviv). Twenty-four hours after this comedy, another camedy took place: the Gestapo arrests Bandera and his "Prime Minister" Stetsk. “Arrests” and ... at the same time gives him the full opportunity to continue to lead his gang ...

(On July 1, 1941, the Bandera "people's" militia of Lvov came under the control of the SS.

Bandera is put in a Berlin prison, then transferred to the Sachsenhausen camp, where they are well kept. Planted because of patriotism - so says the official version of Bandera. In fact, after the massacre in Lvov, Andrei Melnik, who was bypassed by a younger competitor, was offended and immediately wrote a letter to Hitler and Governor-General Frank stating that “Bandera’s behavior is unworthy and created their own government without the knowledge of the Fuhrer.” After which Hitler ordered the arrest of Stepan Bandera and his "government".

In the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Stepan Bandera, Yaroslav Stetsko and another 300 Bandera were kept separately in the Zellenbau bunker, where they were kept in good conditions. Bandera was allowed to meet with each other, they also received food and money from relatives and the OUN-b. Often they left the camp in order to contact the "secret" OUN-UPA, as well as the Friedental castle (200 meters from the Tselenbau bunker), which housed the school of OUN agents and sabotage personnel.

The instructor at this school was a recent officer of the Nachtigal special battalion, Yuri Lopatinsky, through whom Stepan Bandera made contact with the OUN-UPA, B. I.)

Since the autumn of 1941, the Bandera OUN has gradually gone underground: and the underground, by the way, is quite masterfully arranged by the Gestapo directors. The invaders had to break the unity of the Ukrainian people at any cost, to paralyze the growing partisan movement. And the occupiers relied on the Bandera group of the OUN. She was given the task of directing the anti-German sentiments of the masses in a different direction, to prevent the ferocious hatred of the Ukrainian people for the German invaders from spilling over into an armed struggle for the liberation of Ukraine.

And Bandera begin to act. In a German printing house in Lutsk, they print ... anti-German leaflets; they arm their so-called UPA with the latest German machine guns. But neither their leaflets nor their machine guns do much harm to the Germans. No one has died from the leaflet itself yet, and the bullets of the Banderaites get the peculiarity that they do not fly towards the German punitive detachments, but into the chest of Ukrainian and Polish peasants, their wives, mothers and children and into the backs of partisans - avengers for the insults of the Ukrainian and Polish peoples.

(It follows from the program documents that the leadership of the UPA “refrains” from fighting Germany. On August 7, 1941, the Regional Center (Ukrainian Provid) of the OUN-R in the Western Ukrainian lands issued a Declaration, which, in particular, stated that the organization should “ adapt to the created conditions and must meet the future needs of Ukraine. Ukrainian nationalists will take an active part in social work in all areas of national life. "The OUN does not go -" contrary to the information of the wreckers of the Ukrainian cause "- to the underground struggle against Germany, B.I.)

Even when the final defeat of Germany became a matter of the near future, the Ukrainian agents of Berlin remained true to themselves, showed themselves to be the most devoted lackey pack among all Hitler's minions in Europe.

True, these professional traitors even today, between one and another of their atrocities, declare "independent" and "cathedral", while calling themselves an "independent political factor." But the facts speak about this “independence” of the OUN bandits. The facts are irrefutable, supported by the testimony of the real and only inspirers of the Ukrainian nationalists - gentlemen from the Gestapo.

Let's give the word to the documents. Let them enter like an aspen stake into the grave of what for many years was called by a stinking term: “Ukrainian nationalism”.

In the spring of 1944, the Red Army crossed the Zbruch River in its liberation campaign. Around the same time, Bandera “delegates” came to the German security police and SD of the district (district, B. I.) of Galicia with a statement that the representative of the so-called “Central leadership of the OUN - Bandera” Gerasimovsky wishes “on behalf of the political and military sector of the OUN” to discuss with the Gestapo the possibility of close cooperation against “Bolshevism” in the new conditions.

The Gestapo did not force itself to ask: on March 5, Gerasimovsky met in Ternopil with a representative of the security police and the SD, crime commissar Pappe. Apparently, the Gestapo was able to properly assess their Bandera counterparts by sending a criminal specialist to talk with Gerasimovsky ...

During this meeting, Gerasimovsky made a statement in which, among other things, he said (according to the transcript of Mr. Pappe's secretary):

“... The Ukrainian people and the Bandera groups clearly understood that they could achieve their independence only with the help of the greatest nation in Europe”... Realizing this, the Ukrainian people (read: Ukrainian nationalists. - Ya. G.) already stood on the side of the Germans in First World War, later sought and found support in Germany, studied for German purposes, and finally, both in the Polish-German and in the German-Soviet war, contributed to Germany.

Gerasimovsky continued:

“We must put an end to the mistake that the Bandera groups consider Germany their enemy. The Bandera group says that the Ukrainians (read: Ukrainian nationalists. - Ya. G.) would be satisfied with the state form on the model of the protectorate, but this step towards the independence of the Ukrainians was not carried out by Germany: that is why the Bandera group, bound by the idea ... is forced for its own political goal to work illegally. Nevertheless, in illegal work it is strictly stipulated not to act against Germany, but to prepare for a decisive struggle against the Russians. This was convincingly proved by the fact that the Bandera group began to create, arm and train its combat detachments only in February 1943, that is, at a time when, as a result of events on the Eastern Front, it had to be stated that the Germans would not be able to defeat Russia, as it seemed at the beginning of the war. …

If in some places there were acts of anti-German sabotage, then this was never on the orders of the Bandera group, but was done without permission by Ukrainians out of criminal motives...”

At the end of his speech, Gerasimovsky made the following proposals:

“a) the Bandera group fully and unconditionally strengthens ... solidarity with all German interests, such as transportation, German construction in the East and the necessary demands in the rear military areas;

b) The OUN - the Bandera group puts at the disposal of the German contractual side the intelligence material collected by its intelligence against the Poles, Communists and Bolsheviks in order to use it for carrying out punitive operations. …

A few days later, a representative of the security police and the SD of the district of Galicia turned to the Chief Fuhrer and Police Colonel of the Governor General Birkamif with an attitude filled with undisguised irony at the address of Bandera's "contractual side":

“I ask you to urgently inform about the decision of the RCGA, since it must be taken into account that the representative of the OUN, the alleged future minister of foreign affairs of the Ukrainian state, will soon come to me.”

The second meeting of the Gestapo with Gerasimovsky took place on 23 March. In his new statement, the OUN representative was no less generous than the last time:

“... The OUN will transmit military messages to the Germans from areas behind the Soviet front line. The OUN will keep its combat units behind the Soviet front line and will harm Soviet supplies, supply bases, weapons centers, warehouses - by active sabotage ...

Transports with weapons and materials for sabotage should be delivered from the Germans through the front line to units of the OUPA according to all the rules of conspiracy in order not to give the Bolshevik regime into the hands of the trump card that the Ukrainians (read: Ukrainian nationalists. - Ya. G.), who remained behind the front line are German allies and agents.”

On March 28, the same Gerasimovsky had a meeting with the commander of the security police and the SD of the district of Galicia, the SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Dr. Vitiska. To the question of Vitiska, what would be the attitude of Bandera to the mobilization of the Ukrainian population by the Germans, the nationalist bastard cynically replied:

“The OUN will not create obstacles; besides, there is so much manpower (!) in the Ukrainian people that the German occupation authorities can carry out mobilization, and there will still be enough forces left to recruit into the UPA, and both partners will not interfere with each other. …

On April 19, 1944, a meeting of the leaders of the German "Abwehrkommandos" 101, 202, 305 of the military group "South" was held. Lieutenant Colonel Lindgart (Abwehrkommando 101) paid a significant compliment to the OUN in his speech. You just listen:

“Outside of connection with the OUN, my undercover activity is generally impossible.”

Lieutenant Colonel Zeliger (Abwehrkommando 202) was even more verbose at this meeting:

“.... I have to practically cover the members of the UPA on the territory of Galicia and, after training and arming, transfer them by planes to the Soviet side, or let a large group through the front breakthroughs. I have been in touch with the UPA for a long time through Shukhevych’s intermediary and have already received several people for training.”

But while the Gestapo consulted, the Red Army fought its way forward, approaching the western borders of Ukraine. ... On June 15, a representative of the security police in an official letter addressed to the main department of the NRU SS - Sturmbannfuehrer and adviser Pommering wrote the following:

"...5. VI. 44 years old, the N-sky referent had another meeting with Gerasimovsky, at which the issue of transferring S- and F-agents across the front line to the Soviet side, as well as leaving F-agents, in case the Germans evacuated part of Galicia in connection with the military, was discussed actions. These negotiations also serve the interests of the Sonderkommando Zeppelin stationed here.

As for leaving the F- and S-agents to be sent behind the front line, Gerasimovsky stated that the UPA maintains the same connection with the army as the guard position maintains with the OUN-Bandera group.

“There has long been an agreement between the German army and the UPA that the UPA will place F- and S-agents at the disposal of the army from its ranks. Therefore, it remains only to acquaint the security police with these members of the UPA.” ... "

Yaroslav Galan, "What has no name." Yaroslav Galan was brutally murdered by Bandera in 1949.

In 1944, Soviet troops cleared Western Ukraine of the Nazis. Many members of the OUN-UPA fled with the German troops. The hatred of local residents for the OUN-UPA in Volhynia and Galicia was so high that they themselves betrayed them and killed them. In order to activate the OUN and support their spirit, the Nazis decide to release Bandera and 300 of his supporters from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, incl. I. Stetsko and Melnyk. This happened on September 25, 1944.

The German press published numerous articles about the successes of the UPA in the fight against the Bolsheviks, calling the members of the UPA "Ukrainian freedom fighters." Bandera stayed in Berlin, at the dacha of the Abwehr. A numerous stream of messages, explanations, dispatches, "declarations" and "memorandums" addressed to Hitler, Ribentrop, Rosenberg and other Fuhrers of Nazi Germany went on. Constantly making excuses in his letters and asking for assistance and support, Bandera proved his loyalty to the Fuhrer and the German army and tried to convince of the urgent need for the OUN-b for Germany. According to the head of the secret Abwehr-2 division, Erwin Stolze Bandera, he was recruited by the Abwehr and later appeared in the Abwehr card index under the nickname Gray.

After leaving the camp, Stepan Bandera immediately went to work as part of the 202nd Abwehr team in Krakow and began training OUN-UPA sabotage detachments.

Irrefutable proof of this is the testimony of a former Gestapo and Abwehr officer, Lieutenant Siegfried Müller, given during the investigation on September 19, 1945.

“On December 27, 1944, I prepared a group of saboteurs to transfer it to the rear of the Red Army with special assignments. Stepan Bandera, in my presence, personally instructed these agents and transmitted through them to the headquarters of the UPA an order to intensify subversive work in the rear of the Red Army and establish regular radio communications with the Abwehrkommando-202. (Central State Archive of Public Associations of Ukraine f.57. Op.4. D.338. L.268-279)

With the fall of the Third Reich, the OUN(b) quickly found common interests with the intelligence services of England and the United States. After Churchill's speech in March 1946, which proclaimed the beginning of the Cold War, the OUN, like other anti-Soviet formations in Eastern Europe, became of particular interest to the secret services of Great Britain, the United States and, to some extent, France. Supporters of the OUN(b) were especially active in these contacts.

In January-February 1946, the ZC OUN held a conference of the leaders of the organization, at which it was announced the creation of foreign units of the OUN (ZCH OUN). At the same time, in the camps for refugees and displaced persons on the territory of the Western allies, there was an active struggle between the OUN (b) and OUN (m) for new members and influence over the camp administration, as before, the initiative remained in the hands of the OUN (b).

After the collapse of the USSR, Western intelligence agencies organized the introduction of the OUN (b) into the political life of Ukraine. In 1992, on the initiative of Yaroslava Stetsko, on the basis of the OUN (b), the political party "Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists" (KUN) was created. Along with the KUN, the public wing of the OUN (b) was also preserved - the OUN-revolutionary (OUN (r)). At first she was subordinate to KUN, but later she got out of his control. De facto, the programmatic fundamental principles of the OUN (b) were included in the charter of the KUN without changes.

Under the guidance of NATO instructors, combat detachments of Bandera were formed and trained. With the full connivance of Yanukovych. Considerable funds were transferred for the maintenance of Bandera gangs. It was these gangs that spurred, and, in the end, then saddled the Kyiv Maidan-2014.

Ramil Gizatullin:

“In front of my wife’s grandmother, a 19-year-old partisan liaison, the Bandera men flayed her two one-year-old twin children! The name of the tortured woman is Anna Petrovna Prots (maiden name Kozak), besides her and the partisans, her husband, Ivan Stepanovich Prots, was also tortured and died, on his chest, before finishing off, the Bandera people cut out a star. Now her eldest daughter is alive - Yaroslava Ivanovna Markohai (maiden name Prots). In 1949, as the daughter of a partisan, she was transferred with her family to the village. Klenovoye, Artyomovsky district, Donetsk region At that time, many families of Soviet servicemen were resettled from Western Ukraine to Donbass because of the threat to their lives. Four months ago I helped to take my mother-in-law with her daughter and grandson out of Nikiforovka, as well as my wife's relatives from Slavyansk (Cherevkovka district) and from Artyomovsk. In 1943, Nizhnye Ostriki was part of Ukraine, after the Second World War they were returned to Poland. Many Ukrainians still live there.”

From the list of "135 tortures and atrocities used by OUN-UPA terrorists against civilians":

“Drive a large and thick nail into the skull of the head. Ripping off the hair from the head with the skin (scalping). Carving an “eagle” on the forehead, gouging out the eyes, nose, ears, breaking the jaw. Punching with a pointed thick wire through from ear to ear, cutting lips, tongue. Cutting the throat and pulling the tongue out through the hole. Cutting the throat and inserting a piece into the hole. Tearing the mouth from ear to ear, cutting the neck with a knife or sickle.

Turning the head back, crushing the head, putting it in a vise and tightening the screw, cutting off the head with a sickle. Cutting and pulling narrow strips of skin from the back, breaking the bones of the ribs of the chest. Cutting off women's breasts and sprinkling salt on wounds. Sawing the body in half with a carpenter's saw. ... "

At the Donetsk airport, DPR fighters found the bodies of three dead tankers who were tortured by Ukrainian fascists. As it became known, the men served in a separate battalion when they were caught by Bandera. The Novorossia fighters had their teeth pulled out, in addition, the soldiers tied wire around their legs, attached them to a tank, and dragged them along the ground for several hours on the site in front of the airport.

I think there is no need to talk about what is happening in Ukraine now. I just want to note that this is a civil war. Started by Ukrainian traitors in 1941 with the support of Nazi Germany with weapons 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 am afraid it is not. Do we have money in quantities 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 its rhetoric, uses its methods. And we, knowing their history, 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 "Moskal" 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 instructed the leaders of the 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, and also in order to to convince the international community that there seems to be a decomposition of the Soviet rear«.

E. Stolze: “… At the end of the war with Poland, Germany was intensively preparing for a war against the Soviet Union, and therefore, through the Abwehr, measures were taken 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:

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, Zhids - these are your enemies. Nichi їх! Lyakhіv, zhidіv, komunіstіv live without mercy!..”

In 1941, Ya. Stetsko declared: “ Moscow and Judaism 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", 14.10.2007)

I can’t help but quote the words of one of Bandera’s supporters about how they were guided during the war by the “three principles of Bandera”:

"- fraternal attitude towards those of them who support the struggle of the Ukrainian people for their state and interests; - tolerant attitude towards those of them who simply live in Ukraine; - 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 A. Andrievsky wrote: “ Our newest nationalism is not the result of the efforts of the Ukrainian mind, but the product of Italian fascism and German national socialism. The basis of such a hobby was prepared by Dontsov«.

(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 organized themselves in the UVO (Ukrainian Viysk Organization), which was later transformed into the OUN. And back in the 1930s, the “fighters for freedom” tenderly clung to Hitler, and 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, several training centers were created in Germany, 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 sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp back in 1941 (a similar myth - Bandera stopped cooperating with the German occupation regime after 1941)

Two weeks after the capture of Lvov, the Nachtigal 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 from the Germans 2.5 million marks, that is, as much as Melnik receives, 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.

On 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. In the Auschwitz concentration camp, the brothers of Stepan Bandera, Oleksa and Vasyl, were brutally tortured.

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 against Moscow in the OUN-UPA. In December 1944, Bandera and several other members of the revolutionary OUN were released. They were offered negotiations on possible cooperation. Bandera's first condition for the negotiations was the recognition of the Act of Restoration of Ukrainian Statehood and the creation of the Ukrainian army as separate, independent from the German, armed forces of an independent state. 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 - article by Stepan Bandera. Life and work.

Myth #6 About the Bandera brothers tortured in Auschwitz by the Germans.

Brothers S. Bandera died in Auschwitz in 1942 - they were beaten to death by imprisoned Poles. 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. Even the figure of 800 Nazis killed in battles with the "UPA warriors" flickers (in fact, the average Soviet partisan detachment had more accounts). But the German archives answer the requests of our veterans that they have no information about those who died at the hands of Bandera. As well as about these fights themselves. What a 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 heavy and light machine guns, 100 thousand hand grenades, 12 million rounds of ammunition, etc. Moreover, they train foremen for the UPA in 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 the Bandera massacre in the summer of 1943 cut out all the Polish villages of Volyn and thereby disrupted the planned supply of food 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 SS punitive battalion. 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 delivery of weapons and sabotage means 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 come from the center and that the security police be partners on the part of the Germans, as far as possible, since they are familiar with the rules of conspiracy.

“The Germans gave the OUN-UPA 100 thousand rifles and machine guns, 10 thousand machine guns, 700 mortars, a lot of ammunition. This was evidenced at the trial by the former Nazi leaders of the Abwehr Lahousen, Stolze, Lazarek, Paulus.

(Source - materials of the Nuremberg trial)

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 famous, 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 Rovno… 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. The people living there were 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, not a collection point ... "

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 constantly talks about them.

(Source - Nuremberg trials. Collection of documents, - V.2, S.500)

Myth No. 9 The atrocities that are prescribed to Bandera were committed by the NKDVs, disguised as Bandera 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. There are two ways of arguing here - 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 fight 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 also not tried in Nuremberg. 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 the Bandera people 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 Bandera people 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, and a lot of ammunition. This was evidenced at the trial by the former Nazi leaders of the Abwehr Lahousen, Stolze, Lazarek, Paulus.

(Source - materials of the Nuremberg 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- The UPA directs its main efforts to fight the Red partisans and the peaceful Polish population of Volhynia.

(Source - the film "War Line. Shukhevych R.I. - Head 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 means from the German side across the front line for the UPA units should be carried out according to the rules of secrecy, 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 come from the center and that the partners on the part of the Germans be, if possible, the security police, 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 "liquidate" 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 it: “OUN, with about 20 thousand members, had a great influence on the Ukrainian population” (with weapons in their hands and with the support of the Nazis - ed.).

(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.

- In 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-Podolsky region, 31,000 Jews were killed and destroyed, including 13,000 people brought from Hungary.

- In the Odessa region, at least 200,000 Soviet citizens were killed.

- 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 Banera’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.

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. They do this 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 to “immediately and most secretly ... eliminate the aforementioned elements of the OUN and UPA (those who may surrender to the authorities) in two ways: a) send large and insignificant detachments of the UPA to fight the Bolsheviks and create situations for them to be destroyed by the Soviets at posts and “ambushes” (“The earth blames”, p. 150). The rest were to be dealt with by the security service.

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 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.

Historian Boris Yulin wrote about this very intelligibly:

« 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.

A few years ago, I was invited from Odessa to celebrate Christmas in Lvov. Having accepted the invitation, I took my completely Russian-speaking household members - my wife and son, I went to the "zapadenschina", as we usually call the local lands.

By the nature of my service in the police (by that time I had already risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel), I quite often visited Galicia in recent years, but my wife went there for the first time, not hiding her fear.

We spent only a day in Lviv itself. By the evening we were put in a car, they said that "It's time to call the village…", and we were taken somewhere along a snow-covered road to the west of the region.

A couple of hours later we were in a small regional center - Rudki. In the center of the village, on the same square, three old churches of the three main Christian denominations and a large monument "To the Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine!" coexisted peacefully. On marble boards there are portraits of Bandera, Konovalets, Shukhevych and lists of all fellow villagers who died from 1942 to 1947. Many names ... Probably 30-40 people. And also the lists of those arrested after the war. The monument was well-groomed: the path was cleared of snow, a brand new wreath and even a bouquet of fresh flowers. When I turned my head to the right, I saw a monument to a Soviet soldier about 15 meters away. This is the standard one, which is in almost every settlement of our large, former Motherland - a white, plaster soldier in a raincoat, with a machine gun on his chest. Snow was also removed around it and a beautiful wreath lay. In response to my silent question, my Lvov friend uttered: “How else, if half of our grandfathers are there, and the other half fought there. It’s in Kyiv that we are being divided, but here we have nothing to share.”

Then there was Christmas, endless visits to strangers, but very kind and generous people, futile attempts by my wife to remember at least something from the countless Christmas Galician proverbs and carols. And in parting, a parting phrase from an old Galician grandfather: "Sasha, tell your people there that we are normal here. Why stink us?!?"

After that, I visited almost all Ukrainian museums of the OUN-UPA history. I have amassed an impressive library on the subject. As a professional military historian who grew up in the USSR, I "studied the topic academically" ...
I do not think that this activity of mine would have greatly pleased my two grandfathers. They both went through the Great Patriotic War from the forty-first to the forty-fifth (no, even before 1946 - maternal grandfather, ended the war in Manchuria, having already defeated Japan). But it seems to me that I did not insult their memory in any way.
I just tried to understand, understood, and as simply as possible, I share my knowledge with you, my dear Russians.

Try to understand the logic and actions of those 17-19-year-old boys whose names were engraved on the marble boards of the obelisk in the village of Rudki ...

In September 1939, the Red Army came with the so-called "liberation mission" to the then Polish lands. The Galicians looked at the Soviet soldiers in the same way as if Indian sepoys or South African Boers were marching through their villages. More with wary interest than with enmity or joy. And then something began that the inhabitants of the Eastern Ukrainian regions, and indeed the entire vast RSFSR, had already experienced: collectivization, dispossession, the NKVD, purges among the intelligentsia and priests, sending the color of the nation to Siberia, and much more that they did not expect from " liberators." So a year and a half passed ... Only a year and a half! And a new war began ... and the Germans came very quickly ....

Are you afraid of today's Germans? Respectable, well-groomed, adequate residents of the European Union? Not? Probably, TEX Germans, the majority of the population, not impregnated with Bolshevik propaganda, (but, as here - you will impregnate in just a year and a half!) They perceived the same way. And therefore, the Germans were already met as real liberators from the "red plague". (Forgive me my communist grandfathers, real communists, and not these newly minted and corrupt ones who are on the rations of the regionals in our BP). And the Galicians handed out bread and salt to the Germans near the Lviv City Hall, and very quickly formed two Ukrainian battalions - the same ones - the famous "Nachtigal" and "Roland".

The historian has no right to speak in the subjunctive mood, but it seems to me that if it were not for the idiotic-manic Nazi theory, then the relationship between Germans and Ukrainians (and not only Western ones) in 1941-42 would have developed completely differently ... But Hitler was paranoid and a maniac, and the SS, together with the Gestapo, very soon made it so that those same guys from the obelisk began to change their attitude towards their new friends. And then they completely crossed them out of the list of their friends, "took towels and went to the fox."

I will not bore you with figures about the number of blown up bridges, Germans killed and military operations carried out by Bandera detachments from 1942 to 1944. Believe me, as a historian who had the opportunity to work in the Central Archive of the SBU, for partisan units that operated in complete isolation, without anyone's external support, these are more than serious facts. Not in vain, in American military educational institutions, it is the experience of the UPA that is still being studied as a classic of partisan and underground activities. In short, the Germans got away from them. But they were physically unable to defeat the strongest army in Europe at that time and liberate their Motherland-Ukraine.

And then, in 1944, the Red Army came there again. And then these already well-trained guys began to fight the "evil" that they had already known back in 1939. And they fought to the last fighter, in the truest sense of the word: (the last pockets of resistance were finally suppressed only by the mid-50s ).
By an evil irony of fate, but rather by the exact political calculation of Stalin, the units of the NKVD troops were formed mainly from the Slavs. So the Ukrainians killed each other there, for a good ten years. And still, they remember this (and some, on both sides, also manage to be proud of this fact).

Now, on the Maidan, shoulder to shoulder are the grandchildren of those who fought against the Germans, and then against the "soviets" - in the UPA army, and those who reached Berlin with the Red Army. It may very well be that from 1944 to 1951 in the Carpathian Mountains, the grandfathers of the guys who are side by side warming themselves by the fire on the Maidan, shot at each other. But it's been two months since these boys and girls stopped "rinsing" these mossy grievances. They remembered that from Lugansk to Uzhgorod, and from Chernigov to Sevastopol - we are one PEOPLE. We are not "Westerners", and not "Downbass", not "Byrygi-Odessians", and not "Roguli-Vinnichanes", not "Khokhls", and not "Muscovites" - WE ARE UKRAINIANS! Free, beautiful, smart and hardworking PEOPLE!!! Which, by the will of fate and a handful of scum, was in big trouble - on the verge of destroying the Motherland. Now the price of Maidan's resistance is the existence of a whole and free Ukraine. And give us, God: patience, perseverance and wisdom, to endure and win. We need it, as in 1941 near Moscow, as in 1942 near Stalingrad, as in 1943 near Kursk.

We need a victory for our country to be! Now that's the question. And I want us to remember from Donetsk to Lvov that we are UKRAINIANS, and we will not have another UKRAINE!!! This land gave birth to us, and God forbid, a civil war will begin, then we will bury each other in this land.
No need to fertilize our chernozems with blood!!!

Russians, Ukrainians, PEOPLE! We really need to defeat the gang. And then choose your own normal leaders (from Kirovohrad, Dnepropetrovsk, Ternopil, Lviv, Donbass, Crimeans ... - from good, normal people) and just LIVE.

All this must be done for the sake of all of us, for the sake of our children and for the sake of those whose names are engraved on both obelisks of the village of Rudka in the Lviv region (and other such monuments from Stalingrad to Berlin).

Z.Y. And "Benderovtsy" are residents of the city of Bendery (there is such a small cozy town in Transnistria). And why they should be killed, I never explained to you, sorry.

Your Babich Alexander is Ukrainian.

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 their history, 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.

(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."

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.

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)

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.

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 No. 9 The atrocities that are prescribed to Bandera were committed by the NKDVs, disguised as Bandera 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.

Myth #11 Final. They (Banedra) fought for the independence of Ukraine and the liberation of the Ukrainian people.

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)

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 means 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 with the Germans, if 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.

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 - ed.).

(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 Kamyanets-Podilsky 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? ...

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.

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 Bandera after the war were found and convicted. However, even those who were put on trial did not receive the longest terms of imprisonment. Even while behind bars, Bandera continued to fight and organized mass uprisings.

Against Poland

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 merged 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, a vivid manifestation of which was the famous anti-Polish "Sabotage Action" of 1930: OUN representatives attacked state institutions in Galicia and set fire to the houses of Polish landowners who lived there.

Conquer Europe!

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. He has been repeatedly detained by the authorities: for anti-Polish propaganda, for illegally crossing the border, and for being involved in an 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, Bandera organized an action in Lviv, during which a synchronous bell ringing was heard throughout the city. The so-called “school action” became especially effective: Ukrainian schoolchildren, instructed in advance, refused to study with Polish teachers and threw Polish symbols out of schools.
In addition, Stepan Bandera organized a number of assassination attempts on Polish and Soviet officials. For organizing the murder of the Minister of the Interior of Poland, Bronisław Peracki, and other crimes, 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 writes 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 - the great and cruel war that will make us the masters of Eastern Europe."

Bandera against Melnikov

During the Polish campaign of the Wehrmacht, the OUN provides little support to the German troops, and during the German offensive in 1939, Bandera is released. After that, his activities were mainly connected with the resolution of disagreements that arose in the OUN between the supporters of Bandera - Bandera and Melnikov - supporters of the current leader of the organization.

The political struggle turned into a military one. Since the enmity of two essentially identical organizations was unprofitable for Germany, especially since both organizations nurtured the idea of a national Ukrainian state, which no longer suited Germany, which was successfully advancing eastward, the mass arrests of Bandera and Melnikovites by the German authorities soon took place.

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 continued to fight the Soviet regime until about the mid-1950s, cooperating with Western intelligence agencies during the Cold War. In 1959, Stepan Bandera was assassinated by KGB agent Bogdan Stashinsky in Munich.

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, it was found 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, who spoke 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 passed 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.

In 1955, they were granted 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.

Portal for the student. Self-training

Against Poland

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