Far-right politics in Ukraine
Far-right politics does not have widespread electoral support in modern Ukraine. The country's far-right movement emerged in western Ukraine in the 1920s in the aftermath of the failed Ukrainian War of Independence, with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) founded in 1929. It sought to create a Ukrainian state, independent from the Soviet Union and Polish Republic. In 1940, the OUN split into two factions: the Melnykites (OUN-M) led by Andriy Melnyk and the Banderites (OUN-B) led by Stepan Bandera. Both OUN factions collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War and massacred Ukrainian Jews. The OUN-B formed the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in 1942 that resisted the Germans and Soviets and massacred the Polish population of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. After the war, the UPA continued to wage an insurgency against the Soviet Union until the mid-1950s. After Ukraine regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, several far-right nationalist groups emerged...
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