THE MILITARY TRADITIONS OF LIBERATION STRUGGLE OF 1917–1921 IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN ARMY

Abstract

In 1991 all the military units of the former Soviet Union, which stationed on the territory of Ukraine, passed under its subordination. Thus, Ukraine inherited part of its troops from the Soviet Army with titles received in Soviet times. However, AFU did not rush to abandon from them, it was the process of preserving the names of military units. The process of transition from the Soviet Army to the Ukrainians was delayed for years and took place in two stages: initially followed the process of decommunization of the army, and then its acquisition of the Ukrainian national traits. Chronologically, the end of the first stage did not mean the beginning of the second, because some military units or educational institutions, for example, in their names did not have an attachment to Soviet times, or they were assigned the name of the figure of the Liberation Struggle at a time when the absolute majority of others subdivision of the Armed Forces, at least by name, remained «soviet».