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    Stepan Bandera

    Ukrainian nationalist leader

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  1. Stepan Andriyovych Bandera ( Ukrainian: Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра, IPA: [steˈpɑn ɐnˈd⁽ʲ⁾r⁽ʲ⁾ijoʋɪt͡ʃ bɐnˈdɛrɐ]; Polish: Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; [1] 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ...

  2. Feb 8, 2010 · On January 22, 2010 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko honored Stepan Bandera by posthumously bestowing on him the state honor, “Hero of Ukraine.”. The Soviet KGB assassinated Bandera, a ...

  3. Other articles where Stepan Bandera is discussed: Ukraine: Western Ukraine under Soviet and Nazi rule: …and the younger supporters of Stepan Bandera with actual experience in the conspiratorial underground. The split became permanent after a congress held in Kraków in February 1940, when the Melnyk and Bandera factions developed into separate organizations (OUN-M and OUN-B, respectively ...

    • Life and Death of A Radical Fighter
    • Bandera Cult in Present-Day Ukraine
    • Ukraine That Bandera Wanted
    • Hugely Popular, Despite Controversial Image

    Bandera's life is closely linked to western Ukraine, which was then part of Poland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The son of a priest was born in 1909 in the village of Staryi Uhryniv, now in the province of Ivano-Frankivsk. Bandera studied in Lviv and joined the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which fought underground for independence. I...

    Ukrainian emigrants in the West revered Bandera. In western Ukraine, a veritable cult emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union; there are museums, monuments and streets named in his honor. Elsewhere in Ukraine, in particular in the east, many people believed in Soviet historiography. They did not take a favorable view of Bandera, and saw him ...

    The Bandera cult is an "expression of selective memory and politics of history," said Andreas Umland, an expert at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies. It is about remembering that Bandera was a radical fighter for independence who served time in a Polish prison and a German concentration camp and was murdered by the KGB, he told DW. ...

    Bandera was not a "Nazi," but a "Ukrainian ultranationalist," Umland argued, saying Ukrainian nationalismat the time was "not a copy of Nazism." Rossolinski-Liebe takes a different view, saying Bandera can be called "a radical nationalist, a fascist." The German-Polish historian disagrees with Ukrainian colleagues who say Bandera's supporters fough...

  4. May 20, 2014 · Let's start with the basics: Stepan Bandera was born in 1909 in what is now western Ukraine. In 1959, the Soviet Union's KGB poisoned Bandera with cyanide and he died in Munich, West Germany.

    • Ari Shapiro
  5. Wikiquote alberga frases célebres de o sobre Stepán Bandera. Audio libro de Stepan Bandera "Persectivas de la Revolución y Liberación Nacional Ucraniana" ( Con subtítulos en Español) (en inglés) Stepan Bandera – Perspectives for Ukrainian Revolution (audio recordings) Ukrainian Publishers House L.T.D. London. 1988.

  6. Nov 17, 2020 · With the first major biography of Stepan Bandera in English, Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe has provided a thorough, readable, and often penetrating account based on archival collections in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Russia, the U.S., and the U.K.

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