OUN (B) (ORGANISATION OF UKRAINIAN NAZIONALISTIS) AND UIA (UKRAINIAN INSURGENT ARMY) INFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES AMONG POPULATION OF OCCUPIED TERRITORY OF UKRAINE

• Main Author: Stepan Vynogradov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University 2019-06-01
• Series: Київські історичні студії
• Subjects: oun (b); uia; german occupation; anti-german information and propaganda activities; verbal propaganda; propaganda raids of upa
• Online Access: https://istorstudio.kubg.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/176

The article deals with the issues of the anti-German information and propaganda activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Bandera) (further OUN (B) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (hereinafter — UIA) among the Ukrainian population during the Second World War (June 1941–1944). Responding to archival documents, the author notes the three main periods in the deployment of the anti-German information and propaganda activities of the OUN and the UIA. The first period — from June 1941 to the September conference of the OUN in 1941. The second period — from September 1941 to February 1943, in particular, to the third conference of UNO. The third period — from February 1943 until the final liberation of Ukraine from German invaders in 1944.The author highlights the main tasks of the anti-German information and propaganda activities of the OUN (B) and the UIA among the population of the occupied Ukraine. He concludes that, aspiring to oppose the German occupation regime, the underground of the OUN (B) and the UIA during the war created their own propaganda network, established a mass production of printed publications, solved the problem of propagandists, conducted active verbal propaganda, and introduced a new type of mass campaign — propaganda raids of the UIA.However, the anti-German propaganda of the OUN (b) and the UIA during all the time of its management had its own peculiarities that distinguished it from other propagandistic directions of Ukrainian nationalists.Despite the tangible advantage of the enemy in propaganda, OUN (B) and UIA persistently and consistently propagandised their ideas. The content of their propaganda activities was consistent with each specific stage of the OUN and UIA struggles, taking into account the peculiarities of national environments that were disseminated through informational and propaganda activities.