Stepan Bandera Степан Бандера
Stepan Bandera
Born	January 1, 1909 Uhryniv Staryi, Galiсia, Austria-Hungary
Died	October 15, 1959 (aged 50) Munich, West Germany
Nationality	Ukrainian
Occupation	Politician

Stepan Andriyovych Bandera (Ukrainian: Степан Андрійович Бандера) (January 1, 1909–October 15, 1959) was a Ukrainian nationalist leader who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Galicia (Галичина ( Halychyna) Galicja is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. West Germany ( Inf German: Westdeutschland or West-Deutschland) was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany ( Ukrainians (Українці Ukrayintsi,) are an East Slavic Ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly— Citizens Ukrainian (in Ukrainian украї́нська мо́ва ukrayins'ka mova,) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists or OUN (Організація Українських Націоналістів Orhanizatsiya Ukrayins’kykh Natsionalistiv

Early Life

He was born in the village of Uhryniv Staryi, in the Kalush District in Galiсia (Stanyslaviv Oblast), which at that time was ruled by the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The Kaluskyi Raion (Калуський район is a Raion (district of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ( province) Galicia (Галичина ( Halychyna) Galicja is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Івано-Франківська область translit His father, Andriy Bandera, was a Ukrainian priest of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic rite in Uhryniv Staryi. History Before the Union of Brest See also History of Christianity in Ukraine The Ukrainian Catholic church did not exist as such until the His mother, Myroslava Bandera, was from an old clerical family, being the daughter of a Greek-Catholic priest in Uhryniv Staryi.

Stepan spent his childhood in Uhryniv Staryi, in the house of his parents and grandparents, growing up in an atmosphere of Ukrainian nationalism. Ukrainian nationalism is the term used for the Nationalist Ideology of Ukraine.

In the spring of 1922, his mother died from tuberculosis of the throat. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common

Nationalist activities

Stepan Bandera a member of Plast (1923)

Starting in 1922, he was a member of Plast – Ukrainian Scouting Organization. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Plast National Scout Organization of Ukraine (Пласт Національна Скаутська Організація України Plast Natsionalna Skautska Orhanizatsiia Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide Youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical mental and spiritual From 1931 Bandera was deputy of regional Scouts, then – head of regional executive of OUN and commandant of ULO - an organization which had operated illegaly in Poland since 1920. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide Youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical mental and spiritual The Second Polish Republic or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar He was sentenced to death for plotting the murder of Bronisław Pieracki, the Home Secretary in the Polish government in 1934, but the sentence was vacated and commuted to life imprisonment. Bronisław Wilhelm Pieracki (1895-1935 was a Polish military officer and politician Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Released by the USSR when the Germans occupied Lviv in 1939, in 1940 he headed the revolutionary group of OUN that had broken away from pro-German Andrii Melnyk's OUN. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Lviv ( Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, Lwów Lemberg Львов L'vov; see also other names) is a major city in western Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Andrii Melnyk or Andrij Melnik (Андрій Мéльник ( December 12, 1890 - November 1, 1964) Ukrainian military and Khrushchev commented in his memoirs ". Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 17 1894 – September 11 1971 served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 following . . we still showed a certain lack of judgment by freeing people like Bandera from prison without first checking up on them"^[1].

On June 30, 1941, he was elected a member of the Government of the renewed Ukrainian State proclaimed in Lviv following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Lviv ( Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, Lwów Lemberg Львов L'vov; see also other names) is a major city in western The term Great Patriotic War (Великая Отечественная война Velikaya Otechestvennaya Vojna) is used in Russia and some other After that he was in the German Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he was placed in the "Zellenbau Bunker". Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Sachsenhausen (zaksənˈhaʊzən was a Concentration camp in Germany, operating between 1936 and 1945 With Bandera were all the most important prisoners of the third Reich, such as ex-prime minister of France, Leon Blum, ex-chancellor of Austria, Kurt Schuschnigg. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. André Léon Blum (9 April 1872 30 March 1950 was a French politician usually identified with the moderate left and three times the Prime Minister of France. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg ( December 14, 1897 - November 18, 1977) was an Austrian Politician who in 1934 succeeded the assassinated Prisoners of Zellenbau received help from the Red Cross unlike common concentration camp prisoners and were able to send and receive parcels from their relatives. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an International humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers worldwide who stated Bandera also got help from OUN including financial assistance. Germans permitted the Ukrainian nationalists to leave the bunker for important meeting with OUN representatives in Fridental Castle which was 200 meters from Sachsenhausen. ^[2] He was released in October 1944 and headed the West European units of OUN and Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the UPA. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Українська Повстанська Армія U krayins’ka P ovstans’ka A rmiya, UPA After 1945, UPA partisan units continued fighting the Soviet Union and communist Poland until the early 1950s, especially in the Carpathian Mountains regions. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The People's Republic of Poland or Polish People's Republic ( Polish: Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL Russian The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians (Carpaţi Czech, Polish and Slovak: Karpaty; Ukrainian: Карпати

Murder Victim

On October 15, 1959, at the entrance of a house in Kreittmayr street, 7 (Kreittmayrstraße), in Munich, Stepan Bandera was found at 13:05, bleeding and barely alive. Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. A medical examination established that the cause of his death was poison (cyanide gas^[3]). A cyanide is any Chemical compound that contains the cyano group (C≡N which consists of a Carbon Atom triple-bonded to a Two years later, on November 17, 1961, the German judicial bodies proclaimed that the murderer of Stepan Bandera was Bohdan Stashynsky who acted on the orders of Soviet KGB head Alexander Shelepin and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Bohdan Stashynsky (Bogdan Stashinsky (November 4 1931 Borshchovych Stashynsky is remembered as the KGB assassin of Ukrainian dissident professors Lev Rebet and KGB ( Transliteration of "КГБ" is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security ( Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin (Александр Николаевич Шелепин 18 August 1918, Voronezh - October 24, 1994 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 17 1894 – September 11 1971 served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 following ^[4]After a detailed investigation against Stashynskyi, a trial took place from October 8th to October 15, 1962. Events 314 - Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The sentence was handed down on October 19th, in which Stashynskyi was condemned to 8 years of imprisonment. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. The German Supreme Court confirmed at Karlsruhe that in the Bandera murder, the Soviet Government in Moscow was the main guilty party. Karlsruhe (ˈkaɐ̯lsʁuːə population 285812 in 2006 is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near

Legacy

In an interview with Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in 2005 former KGB Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov claimed that "the murder of Stepan Bandera was one of the last cases when the KGB disposed of undesired people by means of violence. Note "Komsomolskaya Pravda" should not be confused with Pravda. Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov ( Russian: Владимир Александрович Крючков) ( 29 February 1924 &ndash 23 November "^[5] On October 20, 1959 Stepan Bandera was buried in the Waldfriedhof Cemetery in Munich. Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Munich Waldfriedhof is a cemetery in Munich, planned by the architect Hans Grässel and opened in 1907

In late 2006 the Lviv city administration announced the future transference of the tombs of Stepan Bandera, Andriy Melnyk, Yevhen Konovalets and other key leaders of OUN/UPA to a new area of Lychakivskiy Cemetery specifically dedicated to Ukrainian national liberation struggle. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Lviv ( Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, Lwów Lemberg Львов L'vov; see also other names) is a major city in western Andrii Melnyk or Andrij Melnik (Андрій Мéльник ( December 12, 1890 - November 1, 1964) Ukrainian military and Yevhen Konovalets ( Ukrainian:Євген Олексійович Коновалець June 14, 1891 – May 23, 1938) was a military Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists or OUN (Організація Українських Націоналістів Orhanizatsiya Ukrayins’kykh Natsionalistiv The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Українська Повстанська Армія U krayins’ka P ovstans’ka A rmiya, UPA Lychakivskiy Cemetery (Cmentarz Łyczakowski Личаківський цвинтар translit ^[6]

In October of 2007, the city of Lviv erected, after many years of delays, a statue dedicated to the OUN and UPA leader Stepan Bandera. Lviv ( Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, Lwów Lemberg Львов L'vov; see also other names) is a major city in western The appearance of the statue has engendered a far-reaching debate about the role of Stepan Bandera and UPA in Ukrainian History. On October 18, 2007, the Lviv City Council adopted a resolution establishing the "Award of Stepan Bandera. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. "^[7][8]

References

External links

• Stepan Bandera, His Life and Struggle