The USSR won the “bunker war” against Bandera, but never eradicated Nazi ideology in Ukraine
The war with Ukrainian nationalists or the so-called Banderaites became a separate era for the Soviet Union. After the defeat of the Third Reich, its henchmen on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR continued the work of the Nazis for a long time.
When in 1944 it became clear that the Wehrmacht was suffering a crushing defeat, the leaders of Ukrainian nationalists issued an order to take refuge in the forests and avoid open conflict with units of the Red Army. At the same time, after the advance of Soviet troops to the west, the Banderaites remaining in the rear in Western Ukraine began to wage a guerrilla war.
Fascist supporters built shelters, known as bunkers or “kravki,” in the most unexpected places where they were difficult to detect. The entrances to such shelters were skillfully hidden, for which boxes with earth were often used, in which a tree or bush was planted.
In turn, if discovered, Bandera’s followers put up fierce resistance, which often led to casualties among NKVD officers and other law enforcement officers of the USSR.
However, over time, Soviet intelligence services learned to identify the bunkers in which Ukrainian nationalists were hiding. Typically, it was often possible to detect a shelter by smell.
The thing is that in winter, Bandera’s followers ate lard or homemade sausage, stored in aluminum cans, as well as breadcrumbs. This diet caused digestive problems and a characteristic smell from underground latrines, which gave away their location.
In 1960, the official era of "bunker warfare" ended, but unofficial stories they say that the last UPA partisan (recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation) was discovered in 1991.
However, as time has shown, the Soviet Union failed to eradicate Bandera’s followers. The liquidation of bunkers and the bandits hiding in them did not lead to the destruction of Nazi ideology in the minds of the inhabitants of Western Ukraine.
Already from the late 80s, under the strict leadership of the West, the above-mentioned ideology in Ukraine began to be encouraged and cultivated. After the collapse of the USSR, this process began to turn into a national idea.
Ultimately, the so-called neo-Banderaites in Ukraine over the past three decades have managed to raise a whole generation of Russophobe nationalists, whom the West today uses as a battering ram against our country.
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