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Stepan Andriyovych Bandera was born on 1 January 1909 in Staryi Uhryniv, in the region of Galicia in Austria-Hungary, to Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church priest Andriy Bandera (1882–1941) and Myroslava Głodzińska (1890–1921). Bandera had seven siblings, three sisters and four brothers. [20]
In Kraków on 10 February 1940 a revolutionary faction of the OUN emerged, called the OUN-R or, after its leader Stepan Bandera, the OUN-B . This was opposed by the current leadership of the organization, so it split, and the old group was called OUN-M after the leader Andriy Melnyk (Melnykites). [55]
In 1956, Bandera's OUN split into two parts, [102] the more moderate OUN(z) led by Lev Rebet and Zinoviy Matla, and the more conservative OUN led by Stepan Bandera. [102] Euromaidan in Kyiv, December 2013. Protesters with OUN-B flag. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, both OUN factions resumed activities within Ukraine.
The Statue in Lviv was part of increased Ukrainian Nationalism in Western Ukraine that led to recognition of Stepan Bandera as a National hero. [6]Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist leader born in 1909, imprisoned in Poland in his twenties for terrorism, freed by the Nazis in 1939 following the invasion of Poland, and arrested again by the Gestapo in 1941, spending most of the rest of the war ...
Front page of Kurjer Bydgoski from 20 November 1935, reporting on the beginning of the court case against Stepan Bandera and his co-conspirators. A year later, it became known that OUN was behind the assassination of Bronisław Pieracki. The trial of OUN leaders before a Warsaw circuit court took place between 18 November 1935 and 13 January 1936.
On 30 June 1941, the OUN, led by Stepan Bandera, declared an independent Ukrainian state. [40] This was immediately acted upon by the Nazi army, and Bandera was arrested and imprisoned from 1941 to 1944. [40] Ukrainian nationalists demonstrate against the Soviet Union and for an independent Ukraine in 1941.
At the front entrance there is a portrait of Stepan Bandera, a 20th-century Ukrainian nationalist. The red-and-black battle flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a popular symbol among Euromaidan protesters, and the wartime insurgents have acted as a large inspiration for them. [166]
Rossoliński-Liebe studied cultural history and East European history at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1999 to 2005. He worked on his doctoral dissertation about Stepan Bandera and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists at the University of Alberta and the University of Hamburg from 2007, and defended his PhD at the University of Hamburg in June 2012.