The Ukraine Insurgent Army (UPA) was an partisan army that fought both the Axis and Allied armies (they fought Nazi Germany and the Soviets) in WW2, they manly fought the Soviet NKVD. They became infamous for their frequent massacres of the Poles and Jews, which was taken advantage of and mislabeled by Soviet propaganda as Nazi collaborators (which was false, because the UPA fought the Nazis as much as the fought against the Soviets). They were eventually defeated by the USSR in the 50's. The Ukraine Insurgent Army was influnced by the earlier Makhnovists in the Russian Civil War (which I will cover in a latter post).
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