On June 27-30, 2024, tributes were paid in many places in Ukraine to the war criminal Roman Shukhevych, murderer of Jews and Poles, the nationalist Ukrainian commander who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.
To provide some historical background, Roman Shukhevych was born in 1907, graduating in 1934 from the Technical University in Lviv (then Lwow, Poland). He lived in Eastern Galicia, a multiethnic region, with a Polish, Jewish, and Ukrainian population, which at that time was a part of the newly reborn Republic of Poland. From the beginning of its foundation in Vienna in 1929, he was involved in activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), then mainly directed against the Polish state. He organized and participated in several assassinations of state officials. However, the authorities of Poland dealt with him exceptionally leniently.
Sentenced on June 26, 1936, to three years in prison; with credit for the previous period of pretrial detention, he was released in January 1937. In 1938, Shukhevych began to organize Ukrainian military units in Transcarpathian Ruthenia, and, at the end of September 1939, after WWII started, he arrived in German-occupied Kraków, where he soon took over the leadership of the OUN-B.
Shukhevych became the deputy commander of the Nachtigall battalion, formed by the Germans from Ukrainian nationalists for sabotage and diversion tasks in the Soviet Union. On June 30, 1941, when Germany attacked the USSR, Nachtigall soldiers entered Lviv, together with the German Wehrmacht forces, and took over the Soviet positions without much resistance. These soldiers also participated in several pogroms against Jews that took place at that time.
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To provide some historical background, Roman Shukhevych was born in 1907, graduating in 1934 from the Technical University in Lviv (then Lwow, Poland). He lived in Eastern Galicia, a multiethnic region, with a Polish, Jewish, and Ukrainian population, which at that time was a part of the newly reborn Republic of Poland. From the beginning of its foundation in Vienna in 1929, he was involved in activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), then mainly directed against the Polish state. He organized and participated in several assassinations of state officials. However, the authorities of Poland dealt with him exceptionally leniently.
Sentenced on June 26, 1936, to three years in prison; with credit for the previous period of pretrial detention, he was released in January 1937. In 1938, Shukhevych began to organize Ukrainian military units in Transcarpathian Ruthenia, and, at the end of September 1939, after WWII started, he arrived in German-occupied Kraków, where he soon took over the leadership of the OUN-B.
Shukhevych became the deputy commander of the Nachtigall battalion, formed by the Germans from Ukrainian nationalists for sabotage and diversion tasks in the Soviet Union. On June 30, 1941, when Germany attacked the USSR, Nachtigall soldiers entered Lviv, together with the German Wehrmacht forces, and took over the Soviet positions without much resistance. These soldiers also participated in several pogroms against Jews that took place at that time.
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Ukraine's celebration of Nazi Shukhevych conflicts with its desire for democratic ideals - opinion
Ukrainian authorities should condemn OUN as a fascist organization and offer an official apology to Israel and Poland for OUN-UPA’s crimes against humanity.
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