supplied by the Germans with which Borovets maintained friendly relations. In November 1941, the German administration began to disband nationalist military formations, some of which were reformed into Ukrainian auxiliary police under direct German command. On 16 November 1941, UPA/The Polissian Sich was formally demobilized. Rule in Olevsk By August 1941, Taras Bulba-Borovets had appointed Petro Smorodskyi as commander of the garrison in Olevsk and commanded up to 600 man; later, Boris Simonovich followed as the leader of the raion-council. Around 3,000 Jews lived in the Olevsk, which was around 42% of all population. The Jews of Olevsk were subjected to pogroms and were assigned to forced labor tasks, mainly to humiliate them. In addition to the physical abuse, the Polissian Sich imposed a collective tax of 100,000 rubles on the Jewish population. In November 1941, the rule of the Polissian Sich ended with the taking over of German civil and military administration. Still, the Polissian Sich where integrated in the implementation of German administration, especially in the ghettoization of the Jews. Also around 50 Sich-members and two Sich-commanders participated in liquidations of Jews in mid-November 1941. Additionally on 20 November 1941 Sich-Members took part at the liquidations of 535 Jews in the village of Varvarovka, where they were brought from Olevsk. Ukrainian Insurgent Army In December 1941 Bulba removed "The Polissian Sich" from his formation name (numbering by this time only 300 persons), calling his formation the "Ukrainian Insurgent Army". In February 1942, he made an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate with the Germans for the renewal of his formation. The winter of 1941/42 was spent by Taras Bulba-Borovets at the General Government, while his formation was inactive. In March 1942, the Germans activated their program of the brutal exploitation of Ukraine. As a reaction to such measures, military units controlled by Borovets rapidly expanded with volunteers. These included Soviet POWs, local peasants, different type of nationalists from the OUN which had not adopted official line. At this time, Borovets' force became an anti-German force; its activities were limited to actions that interfered with the economical exploitation of selective regions by local German administrations. In general, its activities were limited to passive self-defense of several rural areas and attacks on German food warehouses. On 19 August 1942, Bulba's detachments at Shepetivka captured 4 railway coaches with military equipment. Throughout the summer and autumn Taras Bulba-Borovets tried to find a compromise