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Ukrainian Insurgent Army

 
Holocaust: Ukrainian Insurgent Army

(Ukrainska Povstanska Armyia, UPA), military wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. During World War II, the UPA fought both Soviet and Polish troops in an effort to achieve Ukrainian independence; along the way they murdered Jews and 40,000 Poles.
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