From Bandera to the Russo-Ukrainian war (16.05.2022)
A street dialogue between Vitalii Dribnytsia and a Russian-speaking interlocutor about Bandera and the OUN. Despite the street format, the author provides a coherent, substantive block of verifiable facts: why Nazi racial theory made an alliance with Ukrainians impossible, how the “Nachtigall” battalion (1941) differs from the “SS-Galicia” division (1943), and where Bandera was held from 1941 to 1944. The material supplements the analysis of the question “was the OUN fascism.”
Key moments
- 00:43 Nazi racial theory made a full-fledged alliance with "Slavic Untermenschen" impossible
- 01:04 A distinction: the "Nachtigall" battalion (1940–41) ≠ the "SS-Galicia" division (1943)
- 01:56 "Nachtigall" and "Roland" — special battalions subordinate to the Abwehr (German military intelligence)
- 02:18 The 1941 Act of Proclamation of Independence; the draft contained no phrase about Hitler
- 03:24 The Germans arrested Bandera and Stetsko and imprisoned them in a concentration camp
- 09:00 Bandera was held in Sachsenhausen 1941–1944; he was not in Ukraine