Ukrainian Insurgent Army, 1942-1956 The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a Ukrainian nationalist paramil
Ukrainian Insurgent Army, 1942-1956 The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan army that engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during WWII against Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and both Underground and Communist Poland. The colours of the flag are derived from the emblem of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, led by Stepan Bandera. They refused to adopt the yellow on blue nationalistic trident as a symbol and came up with their own heraldry. Even resorting to collaborating with the German army as a tactical strategy to achieve nationalist goals during WWII, some accuse them of murdering Jews and Poles, so in Russia this flag is regarded as fascist. Nevertheless the flag is used by Ukrainian nationalists until today. -- source link
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