Banderite
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A Banderite or Banderovite is a name for members of OUN-B, a faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The term, used from late 1940 onward, derives from the name of Stepan Bandera, the u
Stepan Bandera
Torchlight procession in honor of the birthday of Stepan Bandera (Kyiv, 1 January 2018).
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
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The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan formation founded by the Banderite faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists on 14 October 1942, existing until the 1950s.
Banderite
…negative connotation, particularly among Poles and Jews. By 1942, the expression was well-known and frequently used in western Ukraine to describe the Ukrainian Insurgent Army partisans, OUN-B members or any other Ukrainian perpetrators. The OUN-B had been engaged in various atrocities, including murder of civilians, most of whom were…
A UPA propaganda poster. The OUN/UPA's formal greeting is written in Ukrainian on two of horizontal lines Glory to Ukraine – Glory to (her) Heroes. The soldier is standing on the banners of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
Taras Bulba-Borovets with his staff at a pro-German demonstration in the district of Sarny, September 1941
UPA Commanders left to right: Oleksander Stepchuk, Ivan Klimchak, Nikon Semeniuk 1941–1942
A UPA leaflet, which reads "No to Yoska (Joseph Stalin), no to Fritz (Hitler)"