Definitions for "OUN"
the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was created before World War II. It supervised the UPA (Ukrainska Powstancza Armia) – Ukrainian Insurgent Army which was active mainly in Poland ’s eastern borderlands. Both the OUN and the UPA collaborated to various degrees with the Germans. According to the doctrine of Dmytr Doncow of ultra fascist principles (1926), they dreamed of a "Greater Ukraine" which would encompass some of the Polish heartland, parts of Czechoslovakia, Belarus, Rumania, and all of Soviet Ukraine. The OUN and UPA struggled against the Poles (both civilian and underground), Soviet partisans, Ukrainian Communist sympathizers, Jews, and, occasionally, the Germans. The UPA continued its struggle against the Soviets and Polish Communists into the 1950s.