The cult of the OUN and the UPA has flourished in Ukraine—and particularly within its armed forces—under, paradoxically, a president of Jewish descent: Volodymyr Zelensky. This is despite the fact that both organizations have a deeply stained historical record: collaboration with Nazi Germany, involvement in the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities, the ethnic cleansing of Poles, and campaigns of terror against the local Ukrainian population. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of the OUN and UPA's victims were not Soviet soldiers or secret police operatives, but civilians whom radical nationalists had branded “traitors” and “enemies.” So how did Zelensky—a grandson of a Soviet Army officer who fought against the Nazis, and a man whose own relatives were murdered by the Nazis and their local henchmen —come to preside over the flourishing of this cult within Ukraine's military, the very institution he commands as commander-in-chief? And does a country that professes to uphold democratic values really need to glorify organizations with such a bloody and deeply troubling legacy? These are the questions I confront in my latest column. substack.com/@martahavryshko…