Stepan Bandera
| Stepan Bandera Степан Бандера |
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Stepan Andriyovych Bandera 1 January 1909 Uhryniv Staryi, Galiсia, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 15 October 1959 (aged 50) Munich, West Germany |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
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| Allegiance |
 Austria-Hungary Ukraine
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| Service/branch |
 OUN (1929—1940) UPA, OUN-B (1940—1959) |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Stepan Andriyovych Bandera (Ukrainian: Степан Андрійович Бандера, Polish: Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera, Rusyn: Штефан Бандера, Russian: Степан Андреевич Бандера; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian political activist and a leader of the nationalist and independence movement of Ukraine.
In the early months of World War II he cooperated with Nazi Germany, but when he declared a Ukrainian independent state, he was arrested on 15 September 1941 and later imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In 1944, with Germany rapidly losing its supremacy in the war before the advancing Allies, Bandera was released, in the hope that he would deter the advancing Soviet forces. After the war, in 1959, in Munich, Germany, Bandera was assassinated by the KGB (Soviet security agency).
On 22 January 2010, the outgoing President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, awarded Bandera the posthumous title of Hero of Ukraine. The award was condemned by the European Parliament, Russian, Polish and Jewish organizations and was declared illegal by the following president, Viktor Yanukovych, and in a court decision in April 2010. In January 2011, the award was officially annulled. Bandera remains a controversial figure today both in Ukraine and internationally.
Bandera was born in Uhryniv Staryi, Galiсia, Austria-Hungary. He attended the Fourth Form Grammar School in Stryi. After graduation from high school in 1927, he planned to attend the Ukrainian College of Technology and Economics in Podebrady in Czechoslovakia, but the Polish authorities did not grant him travel papers.
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