Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council
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Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR) was a Ukrainian political organisation formed in July 1944.
UHVR united Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists is a Ukrainian political organization which as a movement originally was created in 1929 in Western Ukraine . The OUN accepted violence as an acceptable tool in the fight against foreign and domestic enemies particularly Poland and Russia...

 (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). After the end of the Second World War, the council co-ordinated resistance efforts in Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

-occupied Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. It also organised the boycott of the Soviet-sponsored elections in 1946. Members of UHVR in exile formed External Representation group of the council (ZP UHVR), which popularised the efforts of the Ukrainian dissident movement in the West.
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