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Request addition of link to Melnykites, also redirects from OUN-M. 2A00:23C5:11E:F901:7D1E:4D57:645C:2E1A (talk) 02:04, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that Rossolinksi-Liebe makes a mistake with the date of Melnyk's letter to Ribbentrop. He says 1938 intext but cites it in the footnote as being 1939. All other mentions of this letter online are cited to Rossolinksi-Liebe's book, seemingly oblivious to the discrepancy.

It makes no sense for Melnyk to be writing a letter to the German foreign minister on 2 May 1938-- Konovalets had not yet been assassinated and Melnyk had apparently stepped back from his coordinating role in the home command by that point (he certainly was never in the executive command). However in May 1939, Melnyk was acting head of the OUN and in the months prior had been attempting to attain German recognition of Carpatho-Ukraine.

Here is a link to the letter itself, dated to 1939: https://doc20vek.ru/node/2438

The page is protected so I can't change it myself. The edit I would like to make can be found in Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists where the quote also appears-- it entails changing the date to 1939 and adding the archival source and efn note explaining the discrepancy. 90.160.109.62 (talk) 21:07, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting change of The leader of the old group Andriy Melnyk claimed in a letter sent to the German minister of foreign affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop on 2 May 1938 that the OUN was "ideologically akin to similar movements in Europe, especially to National Socialism in Germany and Fascism in Italy".^[1] to:

The leader of the old group Andriy Melnyk claimed in a letter sent to the German minister of foreign affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop on 2 May 1939 that the OUN was "ideologically akin to similar movements in Europe, especially to National Socialism in Germany and Fascism in Italy".^[1][2][a]

It appears that Rossolinksi-Liebe makes a mistake with the date of Melnyk's letter to Ribbentrop. He says 1938 intext but cites it in the footnote as being 1939. All other mentions of this letter online are cited to Rossolinksi-Liebe's book, seemingly oblivious to the discrepancy.

Here is a link to the letter itself, dated to 1939: https://doc20vek.ru/node/2438

It makes no sense for Melnyk to be writing a letter to the German foreign minister on 2 May 1938-- Konovalets had not yet been assassinated and Melnyk had apparently stepped back from his coordinating role in the home command by that point (he certainly was never in the executive command). However in May 1939, Melnyk was acting head of the OUN and in the months prior had been attempting to attain German recognition of Carpatho-Ukraine. 90.160.109.96 (talk) 10:28, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Although I used a comment instead of an explanatory note to explain that Rossoliński-Liebe made a typo. This information isn't important for the typical reader of the article, but it's there as a comment in case any editor decides to check the source and gets confused about what the correct year is. Day Creature (talk) 16:13, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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