In 1941-1942 while Bandera was cooperating with the Germans, OUN members did take part in anti-Jewish actions.

On March 9, 2010 the OUN rejected Yulia Tymoshenko's calls to unite " all of the national patriotic forces " led Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko against President Victor Yanukovych.

Stsyborsky wrote that Jewish rights should be respected, that the OUN ought to convince Jews that their organization was no threat to them, and that Ukrainians ought to maintain close contacts with Jews nationally and internationally.

In instructions to its members concerning how the OUN should behave during the war, it declared that " in times of chaos ... one can allow oneself to liquidate Polish, Russian and Jewish figures, particularly the servants of Bolshevik-Muscovite imperialism " and further, when speaking of Russians, Poles, and Jews, to " destroy, in the struggle, especially those who defend the regime: send them to their lands, destroy them-especially the intelligentsia ... assimilation of the Jews is ruled out.

The organisation of Ukrainians desiring independent Ukraine ( the OUN ) was persecuted as " anti-soviet ".

The Polish portion of Belarus and Ukraine were in turn subjected to Polonization ; the minorities, particularly Ukrainians, resisted, leading to the adoption of terrorist tactics by the Ukrainian extremists ( OUN ).

The OUN, on the other hand, was originally a fringe movement within western Ukraine, condemned for its violence by figures from mainstream Ukrainian society such as head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytsky, who wrote of the OUN's leadership that " whoever demoralizes our youth is a criminal and an enemy of our people.

By February 1943 the OUN had initiated a policy of murdering civilian Poles as a way of resolving the Polish question in Ukraine.

Stepan Andriyovych Bandera () ( 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959 ) was a Ukrainian politician and one of the leaders of Ukrainian national movement in Western Ukraine ( Galicia ), who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( OUN ).

Stepan Bandera had met and associated himself with members of a variety of Ukrainian nationalist organizations throughout his schooling-from Plast, to the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine () and also the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN ().

Outside of Western Ukraine, support was minimal, and the majority of the Soviet ( eastern ) Ukrainian population considered the OUN / UPA to have been primarily collaborators with the Germans.

The documents are arranged by topics ( 1932-1933 Holodomor, OUN / UPA Activities, Repression in Ukraine, Movement of Dissident ).

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( OUN ) ( or ОУН ) is a Ukrainian political organization which as a movement originally was created in 1929 in Western Ukraine ( at the time interwar Poland ).

At the time of its founding, the OUN was originally a fringe movement in western Ukraine, where the political scene was dominated by the mainstream and moderate Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance ( UNDO ).

After the war, the OUN in eastern and southern Ukraine continued to struggle against the Soviets ; 1958 marked the last year when an OUN member was arrested in Donetsk.

After the fall of Communism the both OUN factions resumed activities within Ukraine.

Instead the OUN, particularly its younger members, adopted the ideology of Dmytro Dontsov, an émigré from Eastern Ukraine.

Despite its declared condemnation of pogroms in April 1941, when German official Reinhard Heydrich requested " self-cleansing actions " in June of that year the OUN organized militias who killed several thousand Jews in western Ukraine soon afterward that year.

Finally, the 3rd OUN Congress held in August 1943 proclaimed equal rights to all minorities inhabiting Ukraine

In late 2006 the city administration announced plans to transfer the tombs of Stepan Bandera, Yevhen Konovalets, Andriy Melnyk and other key leaders of OUN / UPA to a new area of the cemetery dedicated to the Ukrainian national liberation struggle.

Because of his determined personality, Stepan Bandera quickly rose through the ranks of these organizations, becoming the chief propaganda officer of the OUN in 1931, the second in command of OUN in Galicia in 1932-33, and the head of the National Executive or the OUN in 1933.

In 1940, the OUN split into two parts, with the older more moderate members supporting Andriy Melnyk ( OUN-M ) while the younger and more radical members supporting Stepan Bandera ( OUN-B ).

On the eve of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the OUN was thus divided into two competing and hostile factions: the " legitimate " OUN-M headed by Andrii Melnyk and the OUN-B ( or OUN-R for " revolutionary ") headed by Stepan Bandera.

In 1956 Bandera's OUN split into two parts, the more moderate OUN ( z ) led by Lev Rebet and Zinoviy Matla, and the more conservative OUN led by Stepan Bandera.

While the moderate Melnyk faction of the OUN admired aspects of Mussolini's fascism, the more extreme Bandera faction of the OUN admired aspects of Nazism.

Stefan Bandera became head of the OUN national executive in Galicia in June 1933.

To stop expropriations, Bandera turned OUN against the Polish officials who were directly responsible for anti-Ukrainian policies.

In 1940, the differences between the opinions of the two leaders were strained and the OUN split into two factions-the Melnyk faction led by Andriy Melnyk, which preached a more conservative approach to nation-building, ( also known as the OUN-M ), and the Bandera faction led by S. Bandera, which supported a revolutionary approach, ( also known as the OUN-B ).

The intermittently close relationship between Bandera, the OUN and Nazi Germany have been described by historians such as David Marples as " ambivalent ", tactical and opportunistic, with both sides trying to exploit the other unsuccessfully.

Andriy Bandera, Stepan's father was arrested in late May 1941 for harbouring an OUN member and transferred to Kiev.

Yary would be the only member of the original Provid to join Bandera after the OUN split.

The OUN, particularly Bandera, held a romantic view of the Ukrainian peasantry, glorified the peasants as carriers of Ukrainian culture and linked them with the deeds and exploits of the Ukrainian Cossacks from previous centuries.

As of September 2009, Ukrainian schoolchildren will take a more extensive course of the history of the Holodomor and OUN and UPA fighters.

In spring the OUN received 2. 5 million marks for subversive activities inside the USSR.

In spring the OUN received 2. 5 million marks for subversive activities inside the USSR.

In May 1941 at a meeting in Krakow the leadership of Bandera's OUN faction adopted the program " Struggle and action for OUN during the war " () which outlined the plans for activities at the onset of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the western territories of the Ukrainian SSR.

" In May 1941 at a meeting in Krakow the leadership of Bandera's OUN faction adopted the program " Struggle and action of OUN during the war " () which outlined the plans for activities at the onset of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the western territories of the Ukrainian SSR.

The UPA was responsible for military operations while the OUN was in charge of administrative duties ; each had its own chain of command.

Under the command of the Western Ukrainian Territorial Executive ( established February 1929 ), the OUN carried out hundreds of acts of sabotage in Galicia and Volhynia, including a campaign of arson against Polish landowners ( which helped provoke the 1930 Pacification ), boycotts of state schools and Polish tobacco and liquor monopolies, dozens of expropriation attacks on government institutions to obtain funds for its activities, and some sixty assassinations.

This period of disillusionment coincided with the increase in support for the OUN.

In carrying out the tactics to destroy the Polish-Ukrainian agreement, the OUN also organized attacks on those Ukrainians who have called for peaceful coexistence of Poles and Ukrainians.

In the spring the OUN received 2. 5 million marks for subversive activities against the USSR.

The Germans permitted the Ukrainian nationalists to leave the bunker for important meeting with OUN representatives in Fridental Castle which was 200 meters from Sachsenhausen., where they were kept until September 1944.

According to Timothy Snyder the OUN wanted to create a Ukrainian state consisting of Ukrainian territories, but only of Ukrainian people ; its first congress in 1929 resolved that “ Only the complete removal of all occupiers from Ukrainian lands will allow for the general development of the Ukrainian Nation within its own state .” OUN ’ s “ Ten Commandments ” stated: “ Aspire to expand the strength, riches, and size of the Ukrainian State even by means of enslaving foreigners .”

The OUN sought German recognition for an independent Ukrainian state.

Although most Jews were actually killed by Germans, the OUN police working for them played a crucial supporting role in the liquidation of 200, 000 Jews in Volyn in the beginning of the war ( although in isolated cases Ukrainian policemen also helped Jews to escape ) The OUN also helped some Jews to escape.