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Anti-imperial Block of Nations

Vepsians [Chud Zavolotska]

Veps – The ancient Karelian people are part of the Caucasoid race with a Ural admixture. Vepsians are small in stature, with an average head size, their face is slightly […]

June 4, 2023

People and events on covers of ABN Correspondence

ABN Correspondence. The English bulletin of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN), issued bimonthly in Munich from 1950 to 1996, under the editorship of Vasyl Oreletsky (1950–4), M. Borys (1954), D. Osinsky (1954–7), and Slava Stetsko (from 1957). It published articles by Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians about the conditions in Ukraine and other communist-dominated countries of Eastern Europe and Asia and about international Communism, translations of samvydav documents, and reports on the activities of ABN and the World Anti-Communist League. ABN Correspondence was also published irregularly in German (1949–58) and French (1952–4). The bulletin was succeeded by Volia naroda, a journal that appeared in Lviv three times in Ukrainian and Russian.

May 17, 2023

“By the liberation of Ukraine” – song of Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment

Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment – military unit in Armed Forces of Ukraine, formed of few Belarusian volunteer units, in March 2022. Song “Праз вызваленне Украіны” (“By the liberation of Ukraine”) was […]

May 12, 2023

Polonaise (in Belarusian)

Polonaise of Oginsky with lyrics in Belarusian.

May 12, 2023

Artefact of the Afghanistan War – Archive OUN

Naturally, the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists condemned the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union and sympathized with the Mujahideen. After all, this was in-line with the concept of ABN – the Anti-Bolshevik Block of Nations. ABN actively pursued the political support of nations enslaved by Moscow and was in favour of national revolutions and establishing independent states on the ruins of the USSR.