Today, October 14, 2022, Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s Ukraine officially celebrates the Ukraine Defenders Day, an euphemism for the 80th anniversary, precisely, of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which has been formed in 1942, no ambiguity on the site of the State Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

The UPA was the military branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), its faction that Stepan Bandera was leading in Nazi occupied Poland, now Western Ukraine

Stepan Bandera (1909-1959) was a nationalist leader, born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian empire, then Poland, when in 1934, he engineered the assassination of the Polish interior minister. The German invasion freed him and in 1940, he was managing the radical faction of the OUN, a partnership with Abwehr (German military intelligence) and Gestapo. At the beginning of the Nazi offensive against Soviet Union, in June 1941, he pled with Adolf Hitler for an…