Roman Shukhevych

Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych was a <a href="/facts/Ukrainian_nationalism/89Xcnhkc">Ukrainian nationalist</a> and a military leader of the nationalist <a href="/facts/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army/UtLFczvt">Ukrainian Insurgent Army</a> (UPA), which during the <a href="/facts/Second_World_War/2efV5L1U">Second World War</a> fought against the <a href="/facts/Soviet_Union/m7wWsPto">Soviet Union</a> and to a lesser extent against <a href="/facts/Nazi_Germany/8kRbqRpo">Nazi Germany</a> for Ukrainian independence. He <a href="/facts/Ukrainian_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany/IaC6KISn">collaborated</a> with the Nazis from February 1941 to December 1942 as commanding officer of the <a href="/facts/Nachtigall_Battalion/AFJ5z9Sq">Nachtigall Battalion</a> in early 1941, and as a <a href="/facts/Hauptmann/r0HMDzaR">Hauptmann</a> of the German <a href="/facts/Schutzmannschaft_Battalion_201/hRvWU6qq">Schutzmannschaft 201</a> auxiliary police battalion in late 1941 and 1942.
Shukhevych led some of the <a href="/facts/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia/48yHw9nS">Galicia-Volhynia massacres</a>, where tens of thousands of Polish civilians were killed. It is unclear to what extent Shuchevych was responsible for the massacres of Poles in Volhynia, but he condoned them afterwards, and directed the murders of Poles in Eastern Galicia. Historian <a href="/facts/Per_Anders_Rudling/9LMq6Fgl">Per Anders Rudling</a> has accused the <a href="/facts/Ukrainian_diaspora/xQTAraHh">Ukrainian diaspora</a> and Ukrainian academics of "ignoring, glossing over, or <a href="/facts/Historical_negationism/mzGjPGH8">outright denying</a>" <a href="/facts/Organisation_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists/zUpGFfSF">OUN</a>'s role in the massacres.

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Roman Shukhevych