# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stepan-bandera
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:29:18.615Z

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name: "Stepan Bandera"
slug: "stepan-bandera"
description: "A Ukrainian far-right leader who declared independence in Nazi-occupied Lviv, was imprisoned by both Germans and Poles, and ended up killed by the KGB in Munich — yet the real fight over Stepan Bandera started decades after his death, when modern Ukraine tried to decide whether he was a liberation martyr or a fascist collaborator."
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birthDate: "1909-01-01"
deathDate: "1959-10-15"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1909 into a priest's family in Austrian Galicia, Bandera joined militant nationalist groups as a teenager and rose fast: head of OUN propaganda by 1931, architect of a Polish minister's assassination by 1934, sentenced to death and then to life. Freed when Poland fell in 1939, he led the radical OUN-B faction and, on the first day of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, declared a Ukrainian state in Lviv that pledged collaboration with the Nazis. The Germans arrested him for it anyway, holding him in Sachsenhausen until 1944, when they released him to fight the Soviets. He spent his last years in West Germany, where a KGB agent poisoned him on a Munich street in 1959. In 2010, Ukraine's president named him a national hero; the decision was annulled, then reignited after Russia's 2022 invasion made his name a weapon in both countries' historical wars.