A copy of the magazine was donated to the Museum by the renowned Ukrainian collector and patron Dmytro Pirkl.
The journal was published by the Main Propaganda Center of the OUN(b). During the period of active armed struggle, it played a vital role in spreading the worldview of the revolutionary independence movement, highlighting the organization’s ideological and political activities. Oleksandra Stasyuk, a researcher of the mid-20th-century Ukrainian liberation movement, notes that the magazine was published irregularly between 1948 and 1951. It was edited by the head of the center and leading nationalist ideologue, Petro Fedun (known by pseudonyms such as “Petro Poltava”, “Volianskyi”, “Sever”, “Zenon”, “P.Savchuk”). Only five issues were ever printed. Until December 29, 1948, it was produced by the underground Colonel Shelest printing house near the village of Lybokhora in the Lviv region. Notable contributors included Osyp Dyakiv (’Gornovyi), Halyna Savytska (’Marta Gai’), and Bohdana-Mariia Svitlyk (’Dolia’), who died in combat when the publishing house was discovered by the NKVD. Printing ceased following Petro Fedun’s death in December 1951.
The donated copy consists of five yellowed sheets (one is missing) with double-sided black print. Some pages contain markings in blue and red ink. Issue No. 1 (May 1948) features articles on the OUN’s activities and its role in forming and developing the UPA. It also includes a posthumous dedication to Mykola Arsenych-Berezovskyi, a founder of the OUN(b) military counterintelligence (Security Service), and a reprint of a leaflet calling on Russians to join the Ukrainian struggle against Bolshevik oppression.