Ukrainian historians have ranked the UPA to the anti-Hitler coalition
The Ukrainian insurgent army was represented by a separate division in the ranks of the allies during the 2nd world war, experts say the Ukrainian Institute of national memory.

The Ukrainian insurgent army was represented by a separate division in the ranks of the allies during the 2nd world war, experts say the Ukrainian Institute of national memory.
in Kiev, presented the magazine " Ukraine in world war II ", informs the press center of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
"with the help of facts and figures we meet than it in reality was for Ukraine for Ukrainians in world war II. So we wish the facts to counter the massive information campaign and Russian propaganda, which continues to put pressure on Ukraine, trying to leave in the subconscious of the inhabitants of the many myths created by Soviet propaganda, " said Volodymyr viatrovych, Director of the Institute. The brochure included the Ukrainian insurgent army* in the list of armies of the allies as a separate unit." Ukrainians fought in the allied armies on the fronts from Tunisia to the Volga river, on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Ukrainian Alexei Berest supervised the installation of the Soviet Victory banner over the Reichstag, and Michael Strank was one of six Marines who raised the U.S. flag over Iwojima. Under the blue and yellow flag in the Second world war fought only Ukrainian insurgent army, but the victory of the liberation movement won not in 1945, but only in 1991-m to year ", - said Authorized Institute. Remember, fresh Ukrainian authorities in fact conducted a campaign on the glorification of Nazi collaborators and revision history. On 9 April, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the law On the recognition of OUN-UPA* fighters for independence of Ukraine and provided the right of its present social guarantees. At the same time, the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada voted for the adoption of the act on condemnation of the Communist regime in Ukraine. European media concluded that the glorification of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army, as well as the decision of the President of Petro Poroshenko About the transfer of the holiday on February 23, the day of formation of the UPA says that the cult of nationalism in Ukraine has infiltrated the power structures of the largest level.
* Organization, relative to which a court has adopted the legally effective conclusion Of destruction or prohibition of the activities on the grounds stipulated by the Federal law "On countering extremist activity"