About the book: 2002 / The author of the book worked for a quarter of a century in state security agencies, participated in the work to eliminate the remnants of armed banditry in Western Ukraine. The book tells about the nationalist movement of the OUN, about the many years of bloody confrontation in Ukraine, where there was an undeclared civil war that claimed more than a hundred thousand lives on both sides. The author gives frank assessments of the political events of the past, of which the author himself was a participant or witness, and interprets them from the perspective of today.