Nationalist movement OUN-UPA during the Second World War and the post-war period, its ideological heritage today
The proposed study, based on historical and philosophical analysis, examines the activities of the Ukrainian nationalist organization, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its combat unit, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, their political orientation, ideology, goals and political heritage. The history of the creation of legends and myths about these organizations developed within the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States and Canada, and after the fall of the USSR importing them to Ukraine is considered. The influence of myths on the consciousness of modern Ukrainian society, which today is elevated into the category of state ideology and promoted by the SBU bodies, the government of Ukraine and propaganda services, is being investigated. The investigation of the legitimization of nationalism and its role in the rise of far-right sentiments in Ukraine after the defeat of Yanukovych in early 2014 is assessed. The need to fight the internal affairs bodies against this radical nationalist movement today, whose ideologues not only consider Ukraine as a peculiar, historically formed bastion of European values and a barrier against barbaric hordes from the East, is shown, but also claims the territorial integrity of Russia, considering the regions of Belgorod, Kursk, Rostov, Krasnodar, as an inseparable part of the cathedral Ukrainian state, openly proclaiming the conduct of various terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia.