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Stepan Bandera

Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)

  • Fame64.4
  • Momentum3.6
  • Wikipedia153.2K
Source-basedFalling
Lived 1909–1959, aged 50
PoliticiansPolitician
  • Wikipedia
    69 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1909–1959
    Aged 50
  • Awards
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    recognised work
Summary
Updated 2026-09-07

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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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.…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Stepan Bandera

Stepan Bandera
said
The ideological and political work of each political factor must be direct and immediate.
— "For a Complete Political Structure" (1958)
Stepan Bandera
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Faith strengthens the forces of the soul the most.
— "From an Inexhaustible Source" (1957)
Stepan Bandera
said
In every ideological or political movement, the two most important components play an important role: the idea and the person.
— "Idea and Man in the Ideological Movement" (1954)
Stepan Bandera
said
The Ukrainian people takes up an extremely hostile attitude towards Bolshevism, communism, communist system and regime.
— 1954 interview with the West German radio
Stepan Bandera
said
In the hearts of the Ukrainians, there is no feeling of hate toward the allied nations.
— 1954 interview with the West German radio
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64.4
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Momentum3.6
Historical29.5
Now attention16.8
Source confidence65.0
Completeness65.0
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