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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 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the ...

    • 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...

  2. Feb 8, 2010 · The Soviet KGB assassinated Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist-in-exile, in 1959. Many Ukrainians, including Ukrainian émigré groups in Canada, pressed Yushchenko to grant the honor, which ...

  3. May 20, 2014 · More than a half-century after his death, Stepan Bandera is a deeply divisive figure in the current battle. Ukrainian nationalists put up posters of him while pro-Russian separatists burn his...

    • Ari Shapiro
  4. Stepan Bandera. Ukrainian political leader. Learn about this topic in these articles: role in Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. In Ukraine: Western Ukraine under Soviet and Nazi rule. …and the younger supporters of Stepan Bandera with actual experience in the conspiratorial underground.

  5. Jan 12, 2023 · An anti-Semite and xenophobe, Bandera, remains, 64 years after his death, a demonized and mythologized figure. He has long had a contentious position within Ukrainian society itself.

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  7. Apr 18, 2022 · Protected by the US Army's refusal to honor a Soviet extradition request, Stepan Bandera plotted for Ukrainian independence for nearly 15 years after the end of World War II.

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