Stepan Bandera

Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909-1959) · Politicians · Died at 50

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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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1959Died15 October 19591958“The ideological and political work of each political factor must be direct and immediate.”In their words"For a Complete Political Structure" (1958)Read the whole statement

1957“Faith strengthens the forces of the soul the most.”In their words"From an Inexhaustible Source" (1957)Read the whole statement

1954“The Ukrainian people takes up an extremely hostile attitude towards Bolshevism, communism, communist system and regime.”In their words1954 interview with the West German radioRead the whole statement

“In the hearts of the Ukrainians, there is no feeling of hate toward the allied nations.”In their words1954 interview with the West German radioRead the whole statement

1953“Creation, formation of personnel for the liberation struggle - this is the most important, the main task of the whole revolutionary process.”In their words"On the Question of the Main Cadres of the National Liberation Revolution" (1953)Read the whole statement

1950“Even the best opportunities and readiness to help will not give up if the nation itself does not fight and forge its own destiny by its own struggle.”In their words"World War III and the Liberation Struggle" (1950)Read the whole statement

1909Born1 January 1909

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Stepan Bandera photo

Bandera house

Bandera leaflet

Copy of Credentials for Volodymyr Stakhiv

Dom w którym mieszkał Stepan Bandera. Kreittmayrstraße 7 Monachium

Halytskyi District, Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine - panoramio (10)

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In their own words 9

Stepan Bandera

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The ideological and political work of each political factor must be direct and immediate.
1958, "For a Complete Political Structure" (1958), Own words
Faith strengthens the forces of the soul the most.
1957, "From an Inexhaustible Source" (1957), Own words
In every ideological or political movement, the two most important components play an important role: the idea and the person.
1954, "Idea and Man in the Ideological Movement" (1954), Own words

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Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State

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Stepan Bandera

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Spouse Jarosława Bandera

Child Andrii Bandera

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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.

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