Radio Vienna: Broadcasts by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, 1938–1939
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Date
2015
Authors
Shkandrij, Myroslav
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Abstract
Surviving transcripts of radio broadcasts made by the OUN in 1938 and 1939 defend the Ukrainian
right to an independent state and support the formation of Carpatho-Ukraine as the first
step towards achieving this goal. At the same time they praise Germany for the new situation
created in the wake of the Munich Agreement. The broadcasts were allowed by Germany as part
of its strategy to destabilize Czechoslovakia and Poland. The strong anti-Jewish line taken by the
OUN in the first months of broadcasting was likely the required payment for being allowed
to broadcast. The broadcasts stopped criticizing the Soviet Union when the Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact was signed.
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Nationalism, OUN, Ukraine, interwar, Carpatho-Ukraine, Germany, Poland
Citation
Shkandrij Myroslav, Radio Vienna : Broadcasts by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, 1938–1939 [electronic resource] / Myroslav Shkandrij // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2015. - No. 2. - P. 121-136.