banderivshchyna (Ukr.), banderovshchina (Rus.): a term used in Ukrainian and Russian to describe the Bandera movement or the OUN and UPA.
Captive Nations: an organization comprising several anticommunist émigré groups that opposed the Soviet Union and wanted to liberate their countries by means of various nationalist ideologies.
banderophobia: a term used in post-Soviet far-right circles. It defines the critical attitude to Bandera and the OUN as hostility to the Ukrainian culture.
Caudillo (Span.): Leader.
coup d’état (Fr.): “stroke of state,” putsch, or an overthrow of government.
Drahomanivtsi: a pejorative term coined by Dmytro Dontsov, referring to Mykhailo Drahomanov and other moderate earlier Ukrainian thinkers such as Mykhailo Hrushevs’kyi and Ivan Franko.
Ehrenhaft (Ger.): honorable captivity.
Ehrenhäftling or Sonderhäftling (Ger.): “honorary prisoners” or “special political prisoners” were very important political prisoners who received special treatment in Nazi Germany.
Einsatzgruppen (Ger.): “task forces,” special troops that killed huge numbers of civilians, primarily by shooting. The Einsatzgruppen (sing. Einsatzgruppe) operated in territories occupied by the German armed forces following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Operation Barbarossa in June 1941.
Einsatzkommando (Ger.): “death squad,” subgroups of the Einsatzgruppen.
Endecja: National Democracy, a Polish right-wing nationalist political movement active from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Second Polish Republic in 1939. Its main ideological leader was Roman Dmowski.
Führer (Ger.): Leader.
Führerprinzip (Ger.): “leader principle”—prescribed the fundamental basis of political authority in fascist parties, states, and movements.
Gulag (Rus.): a contraction of the name of the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camps, where conditions were extremely poor.
Hilfspolizei (Ger.): native “auxiliary police” who worked for the German occupying authorities. In Ukraine, they were also known also as Ukrainian police. The German administration also called them Schutzmannschaften.
khokhol (Ukr.): the stereotypical Ukrainian Cossack style of haircut that features a lock of hair sprouting from the top or the front of an otherwise closely shaven head; also a pejorative term for ethnic Ukrainians.
kolkhoz (Rus.): collective farm in the Soviet Union.
kresowiacy (Pol.): people resettled from the former eastern Polish territories.
kurkul (Rus.): a prosperous landed peasant in czarist Russia, characterized by the Communists as an exploiter.
oblast (Ukr. and Rus.): area, first level of administrative division of Ukraine.
Ostministerium (Ger.): Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, created in July 1941 by Adolf Hitler and headed by Alfred Rosenberg.
palingenesis: a concept of rebirth or re-creation of a nation coined in fascist studies by Roger Griffin.
panakhyda (Ukr.): memorial service.
perestroika (Rus.): ”restructuring,” political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, associated with Mikhail Gorbachev’s politics.
Plast: Ukrainian scout organization founded in Lviv in 1911. It was banned in the Second Republic in 1928 in Volhynia, and in 1930 in eastern Galicia. After the war, Plast was reestablished by Ukrainian political émigrés in various countries of the Western bloc, and in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Poglavnik (Croat.): Leader.
Providnyk (Ukr.): Leader.
Prosvita (Ukr.): “Enlightenment,” a society created in 1868 in Ukrainian Galicia for preserving and developing Ukrainian culture and education among the population.
raion (Ukr.): district, second level of administrative division of Ukraine.
rynek (Pol.): marketplace.
Sanacja (Pol.): sanation or healing, a political movement that came to power after Józef Piłsudski’s coup d’état in May 1926.
Schutzmannschaften (Ger.): collaborationist auxiliary battalions of native policemen in countries occupied by Nazi Germany.
Second Republic: abbreviation of the Second Polish Republic. i.e. the Polish state between 1918 and 1939 (Pol. II Rzeczpospolita Polska).
sejm (Pol.): the lower house of the Polish parliament.
Sicherheitsdienst (Ger.): Security Service (SD), the intelligence agency of the Nazi Party. In 1939 it was transferred to the authority of the RSHA.
Sicherheitspolizei (Ger.): Security Police. Between 1936 and 1939 it combined the Gestapo (secret state police) and the Kripo (criminal police). In 1939 it was merged into the RSHA, but the term continued to be used informally until the end of the Third Reich.
Slava Ukraїni! (Ukr.): “Glory to Ukraine!” was a Ukrainian fascist greeting invented by the League of Ukrainian Fascists and taken over by the OUN. The OUN-B extended it while adding Heroiam Slava! (Glory to the Heroes!) as a response.
sobornist’ (Ukr.): unification of all Ukrainian territories in one state.
svoboda (Ukr.): freedom.
Strasse (Ger.): street.
tryzub (Ukr.): trident, the state arms of Ukraine.
Übermensch (Ger.): superhuman.
Vodca (Slovak): Leader.
vogelfrei (Ger.): outlawed
völkisch (Ger.): populist or nationalist, and typically racist.
Vozhd’ (Ukr. and Rus.): Leader.
Vozhdevi Slava! (Ukr.): “Glory to the Leader!” was a Ukrainian fascist greeting introduced in 1939 by at the Second Great Congress of the OUN in Rome.
Wódz (Pol.): Leader.