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Stepan Bandera
Stepan Andriiovych Bandera was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B.
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politics · Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959) · politician · also Stepan Bandera, Stepan Andriyovych Bandera, Bandera
Born 1 January 1909 · Died 15 October 1959 · Q157280
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2026· 5 entries
“whoever is deemed to be a supporter faces torture or death”
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Public attention spiked: 3,479 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3× the usual 1,148, with 0 article edits.
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Reported claimRated The event is completely fictional. The organization indicated on the poster did not hold or announce the celebration. The posters were probably put up as a provocation by the propagandists themselves. · StopFake
StopFake rated the claim “Ukrainians Celebrated Stepan Bandera's Birthday in Berlin” The event is completely fictional. The organization indicated on the poster did not hold or announce the celebration. The posters were probably put up as a provocation by the propagandists themselves..
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Concerns over the Ukrainian state's perceived glorification of Bandera and his followers culminated in a diplomatic crisis with neighbouring Poland, where they are remembered very negatively
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2022· 1 entry
AP News rated the claim “Historic photo shows Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera with Nazi friends.” False.
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2021· 2 entries
The popular song Batko nash Bandera, whose first records dated to 2019, entered trends of TikTok in Ukraine, being especially popular among the youth
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The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory under the authority of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, included Bandera, among other Ukrainian nationalist figures, in Virtual Necropolis, a project intended to commemorate h
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2018· 1 entry
The Ukrainian Parliament voted to include Bandera's 110th birthday, on 1 January 2019, in a list of memorable dates and anniversaries to be celebrated that year
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1991· 1 entry
The image of Bandera reentered mainstream Ukrainian culture following decades of Soviet suppression
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1982· 1 entry
And Oksana returned to Ukraine in 1989, where she died in 2004
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1959· 5 entries
Died 1959-10-15.
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“The OUN values the cost of living of its members, very much; but our idea in our notion is so majestic that when it comes to its realization, not one, not hundreds, but millions of victims must be dedicated in order to realize it.”
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Was assassinated by a KGB agent in Munich
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“Opis: przemówienie podczas odsłonięcia pomnika Stepana Bandery.”
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“When the people choose bread between bread and freedom, they eventually lose everything, including bread. If the people choose freedom, they will have bread grown by themselves and not taken away by anyone.”
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1958· 1 entry
“For a Complete Political Structure”
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1957· 1 entry
“From an Inexhaustible Source”
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1954· 1 entry
“Idea and Man in the Ideological Movement”
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1953· 1 entry
“On the Question of the Main Cadres of the National Liberation Revolution”
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1950· 1 entry
“World War III and the Liberation Struggle”
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1946· 1 entry
Agents of the US Army intelligence agency Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) and NKVD entered into extradition negotiations based on the wartime intra-Allied cooperation agreement made at the Yalta Conference
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1940· 3 entries
“s leadership of the OUN, provided he expelled”
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The political differences and expectations between the two leaders caused the OUN to split into two factions, OUN-B and OUN-M (Banderites and Melnykites), each one claiming legitimacy
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The OUN split into two factions with Bandera leading the more radical faction, the OUN-B, in opposition to the OUN-M
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1939· 1 entry
Bandera left custody amidst the turmoil, moving on to Kraków
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1934· 2 entries
Bandera was arrested in Lwów and tried twice: first, concerning involvement in a plot to assassinate the minister of internal affairs, Bronisław Pieracki, and second at a general trial of OUN executives
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Organised the assassination of the Polish interior minister, Bronisław Pieracki, for which he was sentenced to death for terrorism, subsequently commuted to life imprisonment
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1931· 2 entries
Became the leading candidate to become head of the homeland executive
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Became head of propaganda of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), and later became head of the OUN for Poland in 1932
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1930· 1 entry
With his brother Andrii; and in 1932-33 as many as six times
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1929· 1 entry
And quickly climbed through the ranks, thanks to the support of Okhrymovych, becoming in 1930 the head of a section distributing OUN propaganda in Eastern Galicia
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1928· 1 entry
Bandera enrolled in the agronomy program at the Politechnika Lwowska in its branch in Dubliany, but never completed his studies due to his political activities and arrests
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1927· 2 entries
Bandera joined Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO)
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Where he was engaged in a number of youth organizations, Bandera planned to attend the Husbandry Academy in Czechoslovakia, but he either did not get a passport or the Academy notified him that it was closed
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-01-01.
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