European Union resolution
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/get ... anguage=EN
Stepan Bandera, a leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) which collaborated with Nazi Germany, the title of 'National Hero of Ukraine'; hopes, in this regard, that the new Ukrainian leadership will reconsider such decisions and will maintain its commitment to European values;
Many historians explores the topic about Bandera and OUn UPA.
Among them - mayor studies and most known historians.
• The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization by Ray Brandon (editor), Wendy Lower (editor)
• Alliance For Murder: The Nazi-Ukrainian Nationalist Partnership by B.F. Sabrin (Editor)
• The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews: 1941-44 and The Jews of Volhynia and their reaction on extermination by Shmuel Spector Yad Vashem
• Reconstruction of the nations, Timothy Snyder, Yale University Professor
• War Criminality: A Blank Spot in the Collective Memory of the Ukrainian Diaspora (and other works) , John Paul Himka, Professor University of Alberta
• Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine, David R. Marples, Distinguished University Professor, University of Alberta
• Norman Davies (different works) - fellowship of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society
• Ukrainian Nationalism, John A. Armstrong, Professor Emerites of Political Science, University of Chicago, University of Frankfurt am Main, Certification of Russian Institute, Columbia University, Council on Foreign Relations USA.
• Harvest of despair. Life and death in Ukraine under the nazi rule . Karel C. Berkhoff. Associate Professor, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam
All of them considers:
OUN UPA as Nazi collaborators
OUn UPA - mass murderers of innocent: Poles, Jews, Armenians, Ukrainians - who did not want to joint OUN UPA or those Ukrainians who had hidden the victims or refused to clea so called "spoiled blood" (what meant in mixed families to kill Polish mother/father/spouse, sister etc)
OUN UPA as mass murderers of another OUN UPA members
In
early August 1943, at the time of the Third Congress and before the anti-Polish massacres
had ended, Sluzhba Bezpeki (SB), the internal security organization of OUN(b), carried out a
bloody purge of the UPA and the civilian Ukrainian population. Hundreds of UPA members
were shot or put in a concentration camp near UPA’s headquarters. This purge was
prompted by fear of spies from the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, in the organization. SB
had concerns about the ideological purity of the UPA. (Per Anders Rudlingg, page 170
There was two formation OUN B and OUN M - fighting with each other - as Tymothy Snyder in "Reconstruction of the nations" tells " it is not enough examined but OUN UPA probably killed in 1943 as many Ukrainians as Poles" (page 185 of Polish edition) . All because of purges. Bandera's supporters created police inside unit SB (Sluzba Bezpeky) who was responsible for order inside the organization. Many members were trained in sepcial Gestapo training centre in Zakopane (Per Anders Rudling, op. cit. p. 167)
Before the creation of UPA unit high percentage of the first members of UPA were deserted policemen. They were known for theit mass murders on Jews ( Shoah Resource Center, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem)
Having on mind above mentioned info- and I can support it with another reliable historical quotation from the literature- I call on the moderators of the Forum - in the name of hundreds of victims of Ukrainian Nationalists movement - for not to let to put any topic connected with OUn UPA in "resistance" part of the forum. It gives the offence to murdered Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs, Armenians and civilian Russians.
