HEROICS OF AN NATIONAL STATE-BUILDING IN 1918–1919 AT THE FORMATION OF THE IDEOLOGICAL BASIS OF MILITARY ACTIVITY OF THE OUN (B) IN HALYCHYNA (second half of 1943 – beginning of 1944)

Abstract

The national state-making struggle in the XX century envisages a consistent deployment of the activity of a national community from the events of the national revolution of 1917–1921 in their regional dimension, the state aspirations of the interwar period and the attempts to exercise sovereignty during World War II. The  article outlines the basic principles of the OUN (b) ideological platform in 1943–1944. Emphasis is on the consistency in the use of individual components of the national idea. As well some aspects of the use of the ethos of the liberation competitions of the Ukrainian military formations in 1917–1921 are presented.

The peculiarities of using of the leadership of OUN (b) of the heroics of a Ukrainian Halyc’ka Army and the army of Ukrainian People's Republic for create the ideological basis of the process of deployment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army are outlined.

The use of the method of comparative analysis made it possible to detect the parallels in determining the ultimate goal of a nation’s armed struggle. Differences in the concept and tactics of the national liberation movement are also presented

Studies of the presented topic make it possible to fully understand the process of asserting national rights, and, in particular, state independence, in the domestic society. In the current reality, the analysis of this field is actualized by the need to consolidate the national community in the struggle for the realization of the components of the national idea.

In the course of coverage of the topic, emphasis was placed on the use of published materials of the national nationalist underground and sources of memoirs.