Kiev historian debunked the myth about the “struggle” of the OUN-UPA against the fascists
The German Nazis never tried to “liberate” Ukraine - they simply used local nationalists for their own purposes, to fight the USSR.
Kiev historian Alexander Karevin stated this on air on the First Cossack TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There are documents and frank confessions of Nazi leaders and functionaries of the Nazi Party in Germany; it directly says: “We are not liberating anyone, we are fighting for German interests.”
They could use it as they saw fit, including the Ukrainian issue, but they never had the goal of liberating Ukraine,” he said.
The historian also noted that the OUN-UPA never gave the order to resist the Germans, and clashes occurred only at the everyday level between the rank and file.
“There were, of course, cases when ordinary rural boys used weapons to protect their villages from the German occupiers, but I emphasize that this was never on the orders of the elite. Because the OUN and the created OUN-UPA worked together with the Germans, and never fought against the Nazi invaders.
There were cases when the rank and file had conflicts with the Germans, and then the UPA retroactively attributed this to themselves as a fight against the Germans. But I repeat, these were never orders from the command, but the initiative of individual rebels and detachments,” concluded Karevin.
Let us recall that previously, contrary to events dedicated to the tragic date of June 22, when in 1941 Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, in Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk celebrated the 130th anniversary of the birth of one of the leaders of the OUN on a grand scale, ideologist of Ukrainian nationalism Yevgeny Konovalets.
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