Partizany, OUN-UPA i «zelenai︠a︡ polit︠s︡ii︠a︡»
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Serie Belorusskoe Polesʹe v plameni voĭny
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To a large extent, desertion in Polesie was facilitated by the increased activity of UPA detachments. If the natives of Western Ukraine left their military units for some reason, they were, as a rule, registered as insurgents, and the purest form of robbery - as "terrorist acts"" (p. 504). They were dressed in our army uniforms and had our automatic weapons... Everyone in the army was fighting, and then they decided not to go any further. They stayed in the forest and became bandits, for an independent Ukraine. They decided not to fight any further, but went beyond the Dnieper-Bug channel, there to Ukraine" (Polyachok S., since 1943 a partisan of the detachment named after A. Barutsky)" (p. 505). Based on the memories of more than five hundred Belarusian and Ukrainian citizens, participants and witnesses of the described events, Andrey Zaerko restores the details of the Ukrainian nationalist movement during the Great Patriotic War. his heroes - the history of the division of Belarus and the creation of the "green police", the transition of the Belarusian military to the side of the Ukrainian rebels, the partisan movement, the fate of the leaders of Ukrainian nationalists (the book contains memories of the activities of Stepan Bandera, Andrey Melnyk, Taras Bulba-Borovets and their influence on the national Ukrainian thought).
