Thread by @RedbirdEl

1/
The #OUN was established in Vienna 1929 operating in Kresy region (Eastern Galicia) of the "Second Polish Republic" emerging as a union between the Ukrainian Military Organisation*, various RW groups & Ukrainian nationalists.
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizat…

2/
"OUN sought to infiltrate legal political parties, universities & other political structures/institutions.
Their strategies to achieve Ukrainian independence inc'ld violence & terrorism against perceived foreign & domestic enemies, esp Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, & USSR."

3/
"In 1940, the OUN split into two parts. The older, more moderate members supported Andriy Atanasovych Melnyk and the OUN-M, while the younger and more radical members supported Stepan #Bandera's OUN-B. (...)

4/
"After the start of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), the OUN-B in the person of Yaroslav Stetsko declared an independent Ukrainian state on 30 June 1941 in occupied Lviv (...)

5/
"(...) while the region was under the control of Nazi Germany, pledging to work closely with Germany, which was presented as freeing Ukrainians from Russian oppression.[6] In response, the Nazi authorities suppressed the OUN leadership.
(...)

6/
(...)
"In October 1942 the OUN-B established the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). In 1943–1944, in an effort to pre-empt Polish efforts to re-establish Poland's pre-war borders,[7] UPA combat units carried out large-scale ethnic cleansing against Polish people.
(...)

7/
(...)
"Historians estimate that 50-100,000 Polish civilians were massacred in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.

8/
(...)
"After World War II, the UPA fought against Soviet and Polish government forces. During Operation Vistula in 1947, the Polish government deported 140,000 Ukrainian civilians in Poland to remove the support base for the UPA.
(...)

9/
(...)
"In the struggle, Soviet forces killed, arrested, or deported 500,000+ Ukrainian civilians. Many of those targeted by the Soviets were UPA members, their families, and supporters.During & after Cold War, Western intelligence agencies, inc the CIA, covertly supported OUN.

10/ Flag of the OUN-M and emblem of the OUN-M founded by Andriy Melnyk in 1940.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Me…
#naziukraine

11/ Flag of the OUN-B & emblem of the OUN-B of Stepan Bandera was more radical than the OUN-M.
Stepan Bandera is the national hero of Ukraine. The slogan Glory to Ukraine, Glory to the heroes (& death to the enemies) is a Banderite slogan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Ba…
#naziukraine

Mainstream media and so called socialists throughout the western world are actively, militarily and ideologically supporting literal neo-nazism. If you show a Ukraine yellowblue flag and support and promote the extreme ideology of Ukraine you are a nazi.

@threadreaderapp pl unroll