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Warning from the past
The resurgence of Ukraine's sinister forces of the right makes for an uneasy political future, writes KENNY COYLE
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In 1929, the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was formed in Vienna. From the beginning, the OUN attracted a number of extreme right-wing and militarist groups such as the Ukrainian Military Organisation (UMO), consisting of Polish-Ukrainian war veterans, the Union of Ukrainian Nationalist Youth (UUNY) and tellingly the Union of Ukrainian Fascists (UUF).
Although pan-Ukrainian in outlook, the OUN was mostly based in Polish-ruled territory of what is today western Ukraine and its early armed actions were directed entirely against the Poles, such as the 1934 assassination of Bronislaw Pieracki, the Polish minister of internal affairs.
By 1940, the imprint of fascist ideology was becoming more apparent and the OUN split in two.
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