Ukrainian Fascism Series II: The UVO

The UVO was a group of Ukrainian veterans who covertly planned on continuing fighting the Polish through a number of different tactics. Strictly made up of former military men a rigid military style structure was installed by the leader Yevhen Konovalets, a former commander of the Sich Riflemen. The Sich had fought in World War I as well fighting against the Red Army forces and White Russian forces. Konovalets was born in Galicia while it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1891. He studied law in Lviv, where he organized a protest to create an all-Ukrainian university, during which a person was killed. He followed his radical political ideas to the Prosvita organization that sought to destroy the pro Russian sentiment felt by many in Ukraine, particularly the East. Their goals were establishing Ukrainian as the only state language and banning Russian language from all schools, maintaining a religious society, building the Ukrainian economy, spreading pro Ukrainian propaganda in the name