რუსული და უკრაინული სამხედრო-პატრიოტული ორგანიზაციები და მათი ბრძოლა საბჭოთა ხელისუფლების წინააღმდეგ მეორე მსოფლიო ომის დროს

Various national military and patriotic organizations fought against the Soviet Union. There were both Russian and Ukrainian units among them. For decades they were usually mentioned only as the puppets and supporters of the Third Reich. This tendency continues to exist in Russia and such attitude became one of the pretexts for the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Thus, the aim of the research is to show, on the basis of documentary sources and scholarly literature, the real scope of their involvement in the war. We also attempted to show the differences between Ukrainian nationalists, Russian Liberation Army, and Cossacks, and answer the question why it was that the RLA and Cossacks stopped fighting after the capitulation of Germany in 1945 while the Ukrainian nationalists even strengthened their efforts against the Soviet regime.
While working on the thesis, it also became clear that the Third Reich was just a situational ally for the Ukrainian nationalists after the Germans refused to recognize the restoration of Ukrainian independent state on 30 June 1941. Beginning from March of 1942 UNO(b) is viewing Germany as an enemy and officially declared it from summer of 1943. From this period till the second half of 1944 when the German finally left the territory of Ukraine, the Ukrainian nationalists practically fought on two fronts. They made no differences between the German and Russian imperialisms, as the usually referred to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. Their only goal was to achieve the independence for Ukraine.