Spring in Ukraine, Getmanovka village. May 1942 File photoMOSCOW, June 22During the occupation of the territory of Ukraine, the Nazis planned to rely on local nationalists, but not to give them equal rights with themselves, follows from archival documents published on Wednesday by the Russian Defense Ministry. The military department launched a new historical section on its website «Heroes of the first days of the Great War», dedicated the 81st anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War, which published unique documents from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. «Especially, one should resort to the cooperation of Ukrainian nationalism in the field of social management. There are no objections to the creation of so-called» assistance committees «, since this creation takes place in the following limits … Committees can participate only as advisory bodies in activities of an administrative, police and economic nature, while in the cultural field they can be given the widest field of activity. They can not be given any executive power, «says in the German directive on managing the economy in the occupied territories «Green Folder». When occupying the territory of the Ukrainian SSR, the Nazis, in accordance with the directive, had to rely on anti-Bolshevik nationalist and monarchist movements represented by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists *, supporters of Stepan Bandera, the Khertman Party, the Republican Ukrainian Party, Union for the Liberation of Ukraine. As a privilege for these groups in the occupied territories, in addition to the German language, the use of the Ukrainian language was allowed. However, at the same time, for example, the Ukrainian flag was «allowable only together with the German swastika banner.» Moreover, «the banner of the German state should be in a place of honor.»* An extremist organization banned in Russia. plans of the USSR
