Adolf to Azov

By 1946, only a year after the end of World War Two, the American’s opinions on the Ukrainian partisan networks have change dramatically. They went from being viewed as unreliable and untrustworthy, to people they could be counted on to run spy operations. The Ukrainians were viewed as having a weird psychology, almost to that as men who were hunted, as men who knew an early death was almost inevitable. This led these men to develop an idea that they were ready to sacrifice their lives or even commit suicide to avoid capture and torture. This made for some of the best spy worthy material. They also had a religious worship of their nation, known as Ukraine, while being very untrusting of outside governments, including Poland, Russia, and now even Germany. They were still untrusting of America, which still made the situation very fragile.

The belief was that the Ukrainians would be loyal, but only if they were properly treated. There was an agreement set up that if the Americans were willing to provide aid and assistance to the Ukrainian struggle, that the Ukrainians would then provide intelligence about the Soviets. To the American surprise the Soviet propaganda in Ukraine was also failing, and that there was an up-and-coming younger generation of Ukrainians who were willing to get involved with these operations.

While all these groups had different goals and motivations, America was able to deal with them all independently making for an intelligence operation, that would cover a much larger area, rather than if America just aligned with one group in particular. They were also very safe to operate with, because they would normally refuse to operate with other groups that did not have their same ideologies.