Stepan Bandera on the Russian nuclear empty blusher and fight for freedom

Please find below the extract from the comprehensive analytical article of the leader of the Ukrainian Nationalist Organization Stepan Bandera called On the Nuclear War and the Liberation Revolution. The text written in 1957 is strikingly relevant today. 

Soviet propaganda and diplomacy frequently claim that any military conflict inevitably transforms into an apocalyptic nuclear war. Nonetheless, Moscow is clearly emphasizing its interest and with it the inevitable active intervention in the looming conflicts. It threatens to launch devastating atomic bombs, rockets, and charges at every corner of the globe. Thus, it attempts to terrorize an entire world with threats and forces all nations and states to make more concessions to Moscow’s aggressive expansion. If a nation bends to the suggestion and pressure of Soviet intimidation, it will embark on increasing compromises and capitulations. It will lead the nation without any fight or resistance into Moscow-communist networks, where it will suffer worse deaths than in the craters of atomic bombs. 

What will happen if Moscow’s threats fail if they encounter the steadfastness and firmness of Western states? Will Moscow be guided by the same slogans it applies to its nuclear-missile diplomacy? Will it abandon any further imperialist expansion if it has no choice but to fight a global war, or will it launch a thermonuclear cataclysm?

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All Cold War members can agree on the logical premise that neither Western states nor the USSR planned the nuclear war given its lightning-quick and victorious outcome. If Moscow does not take a chance to start the nuclear war, it still assumes that Western states are intimidated by the idea of war and the nuclear war in particular. Risky and audacious speculations of Moscow may rely on these premises. Every display of how the West is intimidated by war will solidify and strengthen Moscow’s aggressive politics of intimidation by war. They will most likely proceed further. 

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Contrary to their own beliefs and the standpoints of the Western countries, the Bolsheviks may now believe that the war in the modern world should not turn into the global nuclear conflict in its form and scale. On the contrary, it will remain limited by some boundaries serving as a successful tool of further expansion. Adopting this view, Moscow can re-launch a series of localized conflicts to break resistance where other means fail and thus gradually extend its dominance over other peoples.

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Fear of war with the USSR and the desire to avoid it at all costs is the factor that constantly paralyzes the Western policy against Moscow-Bolshevik imperialism, depriving it of any initiative and determination in all fundamental issues of the modern international system. For this reason, various opportunities for cooperation between the anti-Bolshevik liberation struggle of the enslaved peoples and the Western states in their attempts to curb the further expansion of Moscow imperialism remain wasted.

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By supporting the liberation struggle of the nations enslaved by Moscow in every possible way, the Western countries can break away from the Bolshevist threat at a minor expense and will not have to pay a high price and face the options imposed by the USSR war or capitulation. The Western support of the enslaved nations can be successful only if they take a decisive step to empower the victory of the liberation movement leading to the total collapse of the Bolshevik-Communism regime in all possible ways. The risk of war and the threats of Bolsheviks should not stop active support of the revolutionary struggle of enslaved peoples. If Moscow-Bolshevik imperialism provides Western countries with an irreversible prospect of a military conflict the West should face the challenge in a more favorable situation when the Bolsheviks are engaged in a second, inner frontline. Rather than wait uninvolved until Moscow chooses the right moment and circumstances to conquer the West.

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