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Under the direction of the Ukrainian government, led by then president Leonid Kravchuk, the SBU (Ukrainian state security) was ordered to investigate the extent of the OUN’s collaboration with the [Axis]. Kravchuk intended to begin the rehabilitation of the OUN, and wanted historical justification to do so. He would not get it. To quote from their findings:
The archives contain materials, trophy documents of the OUN-UPA and German special services, which testify only to minor skirmishes between the UPA units and the Germans in 1943. No significant offensive or defensive operations, large-scale battles were recorded in the documents. The tactics of the struggle of the UPA units with the Germans in this period was reduced to attacks on posts, small military units, defense of their bases, ambushes on the road. – The Security Service of Ukraine, “On the activities of the OUN-UPA,” 7-3-1993
As I have previously outlined, there was no fighting at all in 1942 and by 1944 the OUN had officially ended armed struggle against the [Wehrmacht]. Therefore, since the OUN hardly fought the [Wehrmacht] in 1943, that would mean they hardly fought the [Axis] at all.
On a minor note, this is the first time that I have seen George H.W. Bush together with Yaroslav Stetsko. As we hopefully all know by now, Prescott Bush was highly supportive of the Fascists, so I find it poetic to see his son working with Axis collaborators. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
