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8. Regard the enemies of your nation with hate and perfidy.
9. Neither requests, nor threats, nor torture, nor death should compel
you to betray a secret.
10. Aspire to expand the strength, riches, and size of the Ukrainian
state, even by means of enslaving foreigners.
9
In addition to the
Decalogue,
which duly guided the UVO’s successor,
the OUN, the young Bandera would have been influenced by the writ-
ings of Dmytro Dontsov, a former socialist from southern Ukraine,
who had served in the government of Pavlo Skoropadsky, which oper-
ated under German auspices in 1918. In 1923, Dontsov moved to L’viv
and authored numerous pamphlets, of which the most famous was
his 1926
Natsionalizm,
which called for individuals to use violence
and the consolidation of the national will to attain statehood.
10
Like
the
Decalogue,
Dontsov’s philosophy was anti-democratic and close to
fascism. Although he confined himself to writing rather than to the
direction of political activity and was not a member of the UVO or
OUN, Dontsov came closest to encapsulating the beliefs of the nation-
alist Galician youth of the 1920s and 1930s.
11
Bandera’s initial role in the OUN was as a distributor of underground
nationalist literature, including the magazines
Surma, Rozbudova Natsii,
and
Ukrains’kyi Natsionalist
and as a consultant to the OUN depart-
ment of propaganda. At the beginning of 1933 Colonel Konovalets’,
impressed by Bandera’s success in these positions, began to find him
more responsible work. Bandera participated in the conferences of the
OUN in July 1932 in Prague and in Berlin and Gdańsk in 1933. In
December 1933, Bandera became head of the regional executive of
ZUZ (the regional branch of the OUN for Western Ukrainian lands,
Zakhidno-Ukrains’ki Zemli). Under Bandera’s command, this organi-
zation protested against polonization in the schools of Galicia and car-
ried out two assassinations in 1933–34. First it organized the murder
of A. Mailov who was a secretary of the Soviet consulate in L’viv.
12
The
members of the OUN planned his murder as an act of protest against
the Soviet-engineered famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine.
13
The second
assassination took place on 15 June 1934, in Warsaw: the murder of
Bronisław Pieracki, the Polish minister of the interior.
14
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