If Not Bandera, Then Shukhevych; If Not Shukhevych, Then the Red Army (10.10.2022)
A street dialogue between Vitaliy Dribnytsia and an interlocutor trying to make sense of the accusations against Bandera. The author explains the specifics: where Bandera actually was in 1941, what the “Nachtigall” and “Roland” battalions were, and how the Act proclaiming statehood was structured. The material supplements the analysis of the question “was the OUN fascist.”
Key moments
- 00:47 Bandera himself did not enter Lviv — he was in Kraków; his deputies and the battalions entered
- 00:50 "Nachtigall" and "Roland" — two battalions within the "Brandenburg-800" regiment (military intelligence)
- 01:35 Different versions of the Act of 30.06.1941; the version proclaimed on Rynok Square mentioned Hitler, the drafts did not
- 02:19 The Abwehr was headed by Admiral Canaris, a Baltic German who assessed the situation differently from Hitler
- 07:08 After Bandera's arrest, the battalions were disbanded
- 09:18 Stalin also collaborated with Nazi Germany in 1939–41 — what matters is not the existence of collaboration but its aims