Index | Pre-Civil War Reichskommissariat Ukraine | Ukrainian Civil War | Post-Civil War Reichskommissariat Ukraine | Stus' Republic of Ukraine | Dziuba's Republic of Ukraine | Ohloblyn's Republic of Ukraine | Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic | Post-Civil War Ukrainian State | Klyachkivsky's Ukrainian State | Shukhevych's Ukrainian State | Stetsko's Ukrainian State
This, he knew, was only the beginning. No one could stop them now.
"Perhaps it is time the Ukrainian people learn the nature of racial conflict and learn a Ukrainian state can not exist unless it is populated only by Ukrainians!"
— Dmytro Klyachkivsky
Despite averting the fraternal coup, the incident has done a number on Dmytro Klyachkivsky's psyche and inadvertently teaches him to see enemies everywhere he looks. The Sluzhba Bezpeky is gutted for being associated with Stetsko, new recruits are liquidated en masse, and administrators are purged to replace them with Klyachkivsky's sycophants. Outside of the organization, enemies to the UPA still persist and must be taken care of. Recruiting the peasants, the UPA uses their restored manpower to massacre the Melnykites and communists. Oleksander Shumskyi himself gets captured, quickly judged guilty in a show trial, and taken to the gallows where he can be publicly hanged. Many ethnic groups, including the Poles and Jews, are rabidly discriminated against, as the UPA deems them to be degenerates who have no place in the Ukrainian State and must be expelled.
But Klyachkivsky is not satisfied with his current borders. Outwardly, he eyes Galicia, a contested territory that is formally under Poland's control. Organizing Operation Golovinsky, Klyachkivsky orders a brutal invasion of Poland, encouraging the soldiers to slaughter and destroy every Polish settlement they come across. Eventually, Lviv is captured in the warpath and the UPA has won the region. However, Klyachkivsky's ambitions do not end there. All around, Klyachkivsky sees Ukrainian territory still "stolen" by people groups he despises, namely the Polish, Hungarians, Romanians, and Germans. The Vozhd begins planning reclamation of these lands, no matter the sacrifices that must be made in his military conquests.
This route provides examples of:
- Alas, Poor Villain: Sushko and Stsirborskyi were Melnykites who collaborated with Nazi Germany, but they still meet a rather pitiful end. Before being hunted down and gunned by Klyachkivsky's men, the two look past their usual disagreements and nostalgically reminisce about their participation in the OUN, even having a few smiles and laughs before dying.
- All of the Other Reindeer: The Polish girl who was warned to stay away from the UPA is ostracized by her former friends, who are starved enough to eagerly accept the candy offered by a UPA soldier and tell the other children to avoid the girl. Despite this, her father assures her that she's doing the right thing, well aware of the UPA's ulterior motives.
- Ammunition Conservation: During the invasion of Galicia, a UPA commander takes a town of Polish citizens. Following the Vozhd's order to exterminate them, but wishing to conserve ammo, the commander orders his men to fix their bayonets and stab them.
- Asshole Victim: A Melnykite, who collaborated with the Nazis and snitched out his friends to the UPA, gets executed by the same interrogator who demanded his comrades' locations. The rest of the Ukrainian collaborators soon follow his death.
- The Bus Came Back: The girl who was offered candy by a UPA soldier returns in the post-war period, seeing the same soldier passing out more candy and heeding her father's command to stay away.
- Cruel Mercy: In a rare moment of empathy, Klyachkivsky understands why a corrupt bureaucrat embezzled funds to feed his children. Unfortunately, he enacts this mercy by breaking his fingers instead of killing him.
- Due to the Dead: While overseeing the critical situation in Galicia, Klyachkivsky mentions the "dear departed Stepan Bandera" and his generals pay a moment of silence in his honor.
- Evil Gloating: Furious by the reports of partisans against his rule, Klyachkivsky internally gloats that he's destroyed all his enemies in the Ukrainian Civil War and swears to do the same against his current foes.
- Fingore: A corrupt UPA bureaucrat gets his fingers broken on Klyachkivsky's orders for embezzling funds. The bureaucrat is only grateful that he didn't lose his life in the encounter.
- Fire-Forged Friends: In spite of their ideological disagreements, Sushko and Stsiborskyi were united against the UPA and formed a bit of friendship from their time together. Before being killed, the two share their life experiences and have one last moment of camaraderie.
- Heroic Sacrifice: As the UPA are invading Galicia, an interracial couple between a Ukrainian and a Pole save their children by hiding them in the cellar, sacrificing their own lives when the UPA soldiers reach their household and execute them. It's especially notable for the mother, who was told by her husband to stay in the cellar, but joins him after hiding the children so that he won't die alone.
- Kangaroo Court: A captured Shumskyi is taken to a show trial by the UPA. Shumskyi knows that his execution is inevitable, so he does not deny any of his charges and spends his last words declaring the glory of Lenin and his ideology.
- Kick the Dog: Buying a hat made by enslaved Poles, a Ukrainian man puts his hand over it when he walks through a district of Polish citizens and makes racist remarks against them. It's so petty that even the Ukrainian regrets opening his mouth.
- Moral Myopia: One UPA supporter talks about how much better life is compared to the poverty and suppression Ukrainians faced by the Germans, but he discriminates against Polish people just as badly.
- Oh, Crap!: When an furious Klyachkivsky orders a genocide against the Poles, one of his generals protests the order and internally freaks out when he realizes what he's said, knowing the Vozhd's impatience for disagreement. Fortunately for him, Klyachkivsky is too blinded by rage to take serious offense and the general slides with little more than a verbal retort to the argument.
- Pragmatic Villainy: One of the Vozhd's general is reluctant to carry out a Polish genocide, pointing out that they will start targeting Ukrainian citizens in retaliation. This fails to convince Klyachkivsky, who tells them to arm the citizens then.
- Rape, Pillage, and Burn: The invasion of Galicia is a brutal one, with UPA armies slaughtering Poles and any Ukrainians who are aiding them or married to them. The destruction reaches as far as Lviv, with the city flooded with the sounds of gunfire and screams. One particular pair of siblings see their destroyed home before they flee the city at night.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Under heavy interrogation, a captive Melnykite rats out his companions' identities and locations in the hopes that he could save his own life. His interrogator is unimpressed, claiming that a true Ukrainian would die for his country and that Klyachkivsky will not be so forgiving to the OUN-M before executing the prisoner.
- Rousing Speech: Before the invasion of Galicia in Operation Golovinsky, Klyachkivsky delivers a speech to his soldiers, proclaiming the liberation of Ukrainian lands and the home of Bandera.
- Self-Serving Memory: Early on, Klyachkivsky hopes that he and Shukhevych can recover their strained friendship. If the Vozhd successfully deflects the internal coup, Klyachkivsky abruptly changes his mind and acts like he always knew Shukhevych was an idiot.
- Slut-Shaming: After foiling the fraternal coup, Klyachkivsky has his sights on Slava treasonously aiding her husband and calls her a "manipulating cur" who has been sleeping with Shukhevych.
- Sympathetic Criminal: Several UPA bureaucrats embezzle funds to feed their starving children. One unlucky bureaucrat gets caught for this and the only reason why he gets his fingers broken instead of losing his life is because Klyachkivsky understood his dilemma.
- This Cannot Be!: Stetsko, Rebet, and Lebed will be distraught if their assassination attempt on Klyachikvsky fails. As they are being arrested, Stetsko can only ponder what coincidence or factor led to his own downfall.
