ملف:OUN struggle and activity during the war - London Library - OUN Archive 1941.pdf

English: "The OUN recklessly rejects all opportunistic tendencies, as well as those that measure the role of a passive observer of the events that will take place on the Ukrainian people, as well as all the accounts of a petty merchant to get a ready state from foreigners.

Such an attitude is unworthy of a great nation. Armed struggle will assure the Ukrainian people the role of creator of their own destiny, give them the right to speak to other free populations as sovereign, equal to equal, and to strengthen in this people a sense of self-worth and strength, and raise their respect of eachother.

The people will give a worthy metric to the Ukrainian state and protect it from the accusation that it's glory is only the work of someone else's power. Only on such foundations will we build our own State, because only people can guarantee its endurance. That is why the OUN will raise the armed forces of the Ukrainian people during the war for the honor and freedom of Ukraine! - regardless of the purely military significance of our speech in the event of a clash of warring forces. "