The Ukrainian nationalist anxiety about the cities—and the belief that they had nothing in common with the Ukrainian culture that was deeply ingrained in the villages—manifested itself in slogans such as “Peasant Ukraine Conquers Cities and Kills the Enemies of Ukraine.”[800] The OUN leaders planned to mobilize the Ukrainian villages against the cosmopolitan cities in which, according to the authors of “Struggle and Activities,” most of the foes of the Ukrainians lived.[801]

Spreading rumors about the death of Stalin or the start of a revolution in Moscow was also intended to become an important activity of OUN-B activists during the “Ukrainian National Revolution,”[802] as were putting up yellow-and-blue and red-and-black flags at every administrative building, painting tridents in black on buildings, printing posters, hanging them in public spaces, prompting the population to participate in parades, greeting OUN-B members from the area of the General Government, cheering and greeting the German troops in the name of the Leader Stepan Bandera, organizing propagandist funerals for dead revolutionaries, and so on.[803] In addition, the OUN-B revolutionaries were to motivate the population to refuse to help wounded enemies. They were also expected to inform everybody in the revolutionary territories that there would be no mercy for those who did not follow the rules and orders of the OUN.[804]

The text of “Struggle and Activities” also contains detailed information as to how the leaders of the OUN-B imagined ruling the Ukrainian state. A necessary precondition for establishing state institutions was a political and ethnic “cleansing.” Once OUN territory was “cleansed” of “hostile elements,” then “militia, paramilitary organizations, stable military units, and all other institutions that are necessary for normal life … will be established.”[805] Bandera and other authors of the document took as the starting point for their political plans the principle “The power of the Nation—entirely in the ORGANIZATION.”[806] As in the resolutions of the Second Great Congress of the Ukrainian Nationalists in Cracow, they thereby equated the state and the nation with the organization:

In the Ukrainian State, the OUN should become the only political organization of the Ukrainian nation. All who want to work for the good of the Ukrainian nation and remain in the realm of legality which the OUN applies to its members—should join the OUN.[807]

In other words, “The Ukrainian Nation is the OUN—the OUN is the Ukrainian Nation! All people under the banner of the OUN!”[808]

Bandera and other authors of “Struggle and Activities” were concerned about eastern Ukrainians, who, they assumed, did not know the OUN.[809] On the one hand, the authors stated that they could subordinate themselves to an eastern Ukrainian “independent center”—if such a political body would emerge and consolidate power in eastern and central Ukraine.[810] On the other, they wanted to implement a “one-party system” in eastern Ukraine, which would force eastern Ukrainian organizations and parties to subordinate themselves to the OUN. The young Ukrainian radical nationalist revolutionaries felt that it was their responsibility to introduce the “one-party system,” because the “multi-party system … demonstrated its harmfulness in Ukraine and in other countries. Therefore, the OUN rejects and combats this system.” As in every authoritarian state, not the “principle of parties but one of authority” should be applied: “the Head of the Ukrainian State should be a person who has the authority and the trust of the whole nation.” The members of the nation would be educated by the organization to love and admire the Providnyk: “The