Editing Ukrainian Insurgent Army (section)


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{{Evil Organization|name=Ukrainian Insurgent Army|Image=OUN-r Flag 1941.svg|fullname=Ukrainian Insurgent Army<br>(Українська повстанська армія)|alias=UPA|origin=Ukraine|foundation=14 October, 1942|commanders=[[Vasyl Ivakhiv]]<br>[[Dmytro Klyachkivsky]]<br>[[Roman Shukhevych]]<br>[[Vasyl Kuk]]|goals=Make Ukraine independent from the Soviet Union
Wipe out all Poles (All Failed)|crimes=[[War crimes]]<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>Mass murder<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Torture]]|type of villain=War criminals}}
{{Quote|Liquidate all Polish traces. Destroy all walls in the Catholic Church and other Polish prayer houses. Destroy orchards and trees in the courtyards so that there will be no trace that someone lived there.... Pay attention to the fact that when something remains that is Polish, then the Poles will have pretensions to our land.|An order from the OUN to the UPA in early 1944.}}
The '''Ukrainian Insurgent Army''' (also nicknamed '''UPA''') was a paramilitary group of Ukrainian [[Ultranationalism|ultranationalists]] during [[World War II]], serving as the armed wing of the [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists]] (OUN). The UPA had the purpose of achieving the independence of Ukraine, annexing parts of present-day Russia, Poland and Belarus, and during the war it fought against the Soviet Union, the Polish Underground State and [[Nazi Party|Nazi Germany]] (although at certain moments of the war the UPA would ally with the Nazis to confront the Soviets and Poles). After the war, the UPA would continue with its armed struggle, now against the Soviet Union and the recently established Polish People's Republic until 1956, the year in which it would be disbanded.

Organizationally, the UPA served as the military arm of the OUN, dedicated to conducting military operations, while the OUN was in charge of administrative and political tasks. Despite this, many of the leaders of the UPA and the OUN were the same people. The largest units of the UPA were called "Kurins, and they were composed of 500-700 soldiers, while the smaller units, nicknamed" Riys ", composed of 10-8 soldiers. Sometimes these units were united and resulted in the "Zahin".

According to the UPA, violence was a valid option to obtain the independence of Ukraine, and they adopted a guerrilla warfare policy similar to that of partisan groups. It is said that in 1944, the UPA numbered up to 20,000 soldiers, and its military campaigns were considered the largest armed movement in history against a communist regime until the Mujahideen campaigns in the [[Soviet-Afghan War]].