Questions

1. Evaluate Soviet policy in Western Ukraine in 1939; elicit its pluses and minuses.

2. Explain why it was possible for a huge Soviet Army to suffer such heavy losses at the beginning of the war.

3. What was the attitude of Ukrainians toward the Germans at the start of the war?

4. Tell about cooperation between Germans and OUN leaders at the beginning of the war.

5. What were the relationships between the OUN-B and the OUN-M?

6. What problems did the OUN expeditionary groups face in Eastern Ukraine?

7. Characterize Nazi policy in Ukraine.

8. What serious mistake did the Nazis make concerning Soviet military prisoners?

9. Why was Soviet partisan movement very weak at the beginning of the war?

10. Explain why the UPA often tried to avoid direct anti-German actions and even sometimes protected German communications from Soviet partisans. Give reasons for military cooperation between the UPA and Wehrmacht in 1944.

11. Who is responsible for the Ukrainian-Polish massacres? What was the attitude of Germans and Soviet partisans to these events?

12. What plans did Galicians and Germans have concerning the SS Volunteer Galicia Division? Whom did the division fight against?

13. Tell about the tragic pages of the 1943 battle over the Dnieper.

14. What were Ukraine’s losses in World War II. Compare them with other nations’ losses.

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