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Background Interwar period in Second Polish Republic Map of Wołyń (Volhynia) and Eastern Galicia in 1939 Recreated Polish state covered large territories inhabited by Ukrainians, while the Ukrainian movement failed to achieve independence.

Taras Dmytrovych Borovets was a Ukrainian resistance leader during World War II. He is better known as Taras Bulba-Borovets after his nom de guerre Taras Bulba. His pseudonym is taken from the eponymous novel by the Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol.

Some 80 years ago, in 1941, Taras Bulba-Borovets organized the first troops of UPA. The cadre was later subsumed into Stepan Bandera’s larger organization and expanded further. Although UPA did not participate in the Holocaust and, in fact, saved many Jews from Nazi annihilation, some of the 1941/42 Holocaust perpetrators joined UPA in 1943 ...

The winter of 1941/42 was spent by Taras Bulba-Borovets at the General Government, while his formation was inactive. In March 1942, the Germans activated their program of the brutal exploitation of Ukraine. As a reaction to such measures, military units controlled by Borovets rapidly expanded with volunteers.

Taras Dmytrovych Borovets(Ukrainian: Тарас Дмитрович Борове́ць; March 9, 1908 – May 15, 1981) was a Ukrainian resistance leader during World War II. He is better known as Taras Bulba-Borovets after his nom de guerreTaras Bulba. His pseudonym is taken from the eponymous novelby the Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol.

Borovets, Taras [Borovec'] (pseud: Bulba), b 9 March 1908 in Bystrychi, Rivne county, Volhynia gubernia, d 15 May 1981 in New York. (Photo: Taras Borovets .) Civic, political, and military leader. Under the interwar Polish regime Borovets was imprisoned in the concentration camp at Bereza Kartuzka.

Taras Bulba, hero of Nikolai Gogol’s novella of the same name, is an avowed Russian patriot. Yet something in the picture is askew. Taras wears trousers “wide as the Black Sea”; he carries...

Documentation of the Ukrainian nationalist, Taras Bulba Borovets, 1941-1945 Correspondence of Taras Bulba Borovets, commander of the Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya (UPA-Ukrainian Revolutionary Army), and one of the leaders of the Orhanizatsiya Ukrainskyh Natsionalistiv (OUN-Ukrainian Nationalists Organization) together with Andrey Melnyk and ...