The dying nationalist fantasy of an ethnically pure Ukraine

The dying nationalist fantasy of an ethnically pure Ukraine

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and their militant Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) wing — which carried out genocide against ethnic Poles and others in pursuit of an ethnically pure state — are considered by many the founding fathers of post-Maidan Ukraine. Ukrainian nationalists thus assumed that their fight against Russia from 2014, and especially after the start […]

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