Danylo Shumuk

Danylo Shumuk Данило Шумук
Born	December 30, 1914 Boremschyna, Ukraine
Died	May 21, 2004 Krasnoarmiisk, Ukraine
Occupation	Poet, writer, and political activist
Nationality	Ukrainian

Danylo Lavrentiyovych Shumuk (Ukrainian: Данило Лаврентійович Шумук, last name pronounced shoo-mook, b. December 30, 1914 in village Boremschyna, Russian Empire, now in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine - d. 21 May 2004 in Krasnoarmiisk, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian political activist who served a total of 42 years imprisoned by three different states, Second Polish Republic, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union.

In 1918 in what now is western Ukraine, the Ukrainian forces fought in the Polish-Ukrainian War, but the Ukrainians in Galicia were alienated after what they saw as a compromise in the Paris Peace Conference with Poland. The Ukrainian People's Republic delegation could not gain recognition at the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the World War. The representatives of the exiled government of the Ukrainian People's Republic fared poorly during Polish-Soviet War where they formed a late alliance with Poland and supported the latter's unsuccessful Kiev Offensive. According to the Peace of Riga which ended the war, the combined territories of the Ukrainian and West Ukrainian People's Republics ended up split again between the Ukrainian SSR in the east, and Poland in the west (Galicia and part of Volhynia).

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