The Ukrainian Free Cossacks movement in the USA and Canada in 1960 – 1993
Volodymyr Bondarenko, Dr. habil. (history), Associate Professor Zaporizhzhya National University, Zaporizhzhia
Abstract
The article considers the basic problem of using the military-political experience of the Ukrainian Diaspora in the modern military construction of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Free Cossacks movement in 1960-1993 in the USA and Canada has been investigated. The peculiarities of the Ukrainian Free Cossacks movement in the 60’s and 80’s of the 20th century have been analyzed. The main directions of activity of organizations of the Free Cossacks in the USA and Canada have been determined. The reasons for the decline of movement in the mid-80’s of the 20th century have been distinguished. The experience of the Ukrainian Free Cossacks in the United States and Canada is summarized for the further use in the activities of state bodies of Ukraine.
After the end of the Second World War, the Ukrainian Free Cossacks movement continued to operate mainly among the Ukrainian Diaspora outside the USSR and the socialist countries. The Ukrainian Free Cossacks was a typical paramilitary non government organization. North America was the new center of the Ukrainian Free Cossacks in the early 1960s. The following activities during the post-war years have been as follows: preserving the national identity and Cossack traditions; military-patriotic education of representatives of the Ukrainian Diaspora, propaganda campaign for the purpose of anti-communist struggle, developing the military doctrine and place of the Cossacks in the future Armed Forces of Ukraine, preparing the ideology of the Cossack movement and accumulating the experience in the conditions of civil society and democratic system.
Keywords
Ukrainian Diaspora, military emigration, Ukrainian Free Cossacks movement, paramilitary public association, irregular armed formations, military construction, “third wave” of Ukrainian emigration
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