Historical calendar: the anniversary of the end of the legislature of Ukrainian nationalists in Krakow. As a result, there was a division into OUN Bandery and OUN Melnyka.
Today in our calendar we will look at the circumstances of this event.
The disastrous national policy of the sanitation led to tensions in this field. Fiscalism and demolition of private property combined with the inept policy of Polishization of Belarusians and Ukrainians led to minorities not assimilated. They increasingly hated the Second Republic, hoping to be liberated from its oppressive rule, with the aid of Germany or the USSR.
Ukrainians organized themselves in chauvinist movements called the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (CNS) and the Ukrainian Military Organization (UWO). The terrorists from the UWO openly appeared against the Polish administration in the Kresach during the defensive war in September 1939. They murdered quite a few cops, soldiers, and civilians.
After the September disaster, the CNS could benefit from extended support from Germans who hoped to usage Ukrainian chauvinists both against Poles and the Soviets. They wanted Ukrainians to initiate an anti-communist uprising in the back of the front, as they did against the authorities of the Second Republic. But on this background, conflicts broke out in the womb.
In 1938, NKVD agent Paweł Sufortuplow murdered the former, undisputed leader of the gallows – judaic Konowalc. Since August 1939, he has been the head of the Main Provincial of the CNS. Andrij Melnyk. He treated cooperation with Germany strategically and in the long term, while extremist Stepan Bandera requested that, in return for collaboration, the Ukrainian State be established as shortly as possible.
Bandera led to the convening of a national CNS conference on 9-10 February 1940, at which he was requested to resign, allegedly besides soft Melnyk. erstwhile this did not happen, the banders called their own convention in Krakow. The meeting, which was called the 2nd large OUN Congress, took place on 1-3 April 1940. Its effect was to divided the OUN into 2 factions: OUN-B, i.e. supporters of Bandera and OUN-M – supporters of Melnyk. In this ranking, the banders were circumstantial “bolsheviks”, in contrast to the melnykowski “miensheviks”.
Soon there was further radicalization of the flag movement, which, moreover, began to gain numerical advantage over melnikkovists. The culmination of their radicalism was the Volyn massacre.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here..