Banderite

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A Banderite or Banderovite (Ukrainian: бандерівець, romanized: banderivets; Polish: banderowiec; Russian: бандеровец, romanized: banderovets) is a name for members of OUN-B, a faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The term, used from late 1940 onward, derives from the name of Stepan Bandera (1909–1959), the ultranationalist leader of the OUN-B faction from 1940 to 1959. Because of the brutality utilized by OUN-B members, the word "Banderite" quickly earned a negative connotation, particularly among Poles and Jews. By 1942, the expression was well-known and frequently used in western Ukraine to describe the Ukrainian Insurgent Army partisans, OUN-B members or "apparently, other Ukrainian perpetrators". The OUN-B had been engaged in various atrocities, including the murder of civilians, most of them ethnic Poles, Jews, and Romani people. In Soviet propaganda, "Banderite" became a pejorative term for Ukrainian nationalists in general, regardless of their individual opinions...

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