In the “Insurgent ABCs’”, each letter is illustrated by a word associated with the history and ideology of the UPA.
Excerpt from the “Insurgent ABCs” for the letter M.
“Muscovy is the khanate of fear,
Massacres and masks of the Mausoleum.
There Liliputin is the emperor,
Medvechukovych is the local lackey.
Alarmik will put on a Mazepinka, [a hat worn by Ukrainian Sich Riflemen]
He will load his maschinengewehr [German for ‘machinegun’] and finka, [slang for Finnish knife],
For the avenger knows that the days will come,
When Medvechukovych and Liliputin,
Just like in his own time Vatutin*,
Will fall into the hands of the insurgents.”
*Nikolai Vatutin, was a Red Army general who took part in the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazis. He was killed by UPA fighters in April 1944 in Kyiv.
