[1] The motto of the Decalogue was authored by Dmytro Dontsov.
[2] I – the spirit of eternal element, who shielded you from the Tatar flood and placed you between two worlds, to create a new life: I – the spirit of eternal element, who shielded you from the Tatar flood and placed you between two worlds, command a new life: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (the OUN) adopted the Decalogue in 1929, and all members of the Organization were expected to adhere to it.
[4] Interpretations of the Decalogue were included in numerous ideological training documents of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists—Bandera faction (the OUN-B) from 1940-1945, which appeared under the title of Decalogue Explanations.
These documents explained in detail the values that Ukrainian nationalists should follow on a day-to-day basis.
During meetings of OUN organizational cells in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia during World War II, nationalists were subjected to ideological training based on interpretations of the Decalogue which continued to affirm the use of "cruelty" and "revenge" in the fight against the "enemy of the nation" according to the principle: "We must level the scales of justice, even larger mountains of the corpses of opponents must fall for the mountain of our dead (...) We live on the border of steppe and settled nations, in battle we will adopt the tactics of the steppe people.