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On January 22, 2010 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko honored Stepan Bandera by posthumously bestowing on him the state honor, “Hero of Ukraine.” The Soviet KGB assassinated Bandera, a ...

Stepan Bandera led Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought alongside Nazi Germany during WWII, killing thousands of Jews and Poles

On that day, Ukrainian far-right activists march through the streets of Kyiv to celebrate the birth of Stepan Bandera (1909-1959), a controversial figure of Ukrainian 20 th-century nationalism. In ...

A Ukrainian nationalist carries a portrait of Stepan Bandera, founder of a Ukrainian rebel army that fought the Soviet Union in the 1930s and '40s. The rally was held on Jan. 1, 2013. While many ...

role in Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. In Ukraine: Western Ukraine under Soviet and Nazi rule. …and the younger supporters of Stepan Bandera with actual experience in the conspiratorial underground. The split became permanent after a congress held in Kraków in February 1940, when the Melnyk and Bandera factions developed into ...

The Stepan Bandera monument in Lviv is a statue dedicated to Stepan Bandera, a controversial twentieth century Ukrainian politician, in the city of Lviv, one of the main cities of Western Ukraine. The figure of Stepan Bandera stands in front of the Stele of Ukrainian Statehood .

A metro station in Kyiv and a stadium in the western city of Ternopil have in recent years been renamed in honour of Shukhevych. The trend shows no signs of slowing: in December 2022 Pushkin Street in the city of Izium, recently liberated from Russian occupation, was renamed Stepan Bandera Street.

Stepan Bandera was murdered by the KBG while living in exile in Munich in the 1950s, and his widow moved to Canada, where there is a large Ukrainian diaspora community. She arrived with her three young children, including Steve’s father, Andrii.