Andrij Brody

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Андрій Іванович Бродій
Transl. :	Andrij Ivanovyč Brodij
Transcr. :	Andrij Ivanovych Brodij

Andrij Brody

Andrij Iwanowytsch Brodij (* June 20 ^{. Jul} / 2. July  1895 ^{. Greg} Kamjanske , Transcarpathia , Austria-Hungary , † 7. December 1946 in Uzhhorod , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ruthenian ( Ukrainian ) journalist and politician. Between October 11, 1938 and October 26, 1938 he was head of government of the independent Carpathian Ukraine .

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Brody was born in Kamjanske, a village in what is now Irschawa Rajon in the Ukrainian Transcarpathian Oblast, the son of a farmer who had made a certain prosperity as a migrant worker in the United States. Brodij attended the Greek Catholic teacher training college in Uzhhorod and in 1914 was a primary school teacher in Velykyj Bychkiv . In the First World War he fought with the rank of lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian land forces at the front, was wounded and awarded several times for bravery.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, he promoted the idea of ​​an autonomous Carpathian Ukraine within Hungary. In 1920 Brodij co-founded the Russophile Carpathian Agrarian Union party , which was renamed the Autonomous Agricultural Association (SAC) in 1923 and was one of the most active and influential political parties in Transcarpathia in the interwar period. In 1933 he became party leader. In the summer of 1938 Brodij became the leader of the autonomous forces in the Ukrainian Subcarpathian and the representative of the United Central Ruthenian Council . After the Carpathian Ukraine gained autonomy within Czecho-Slovakia through the Munich Agreement , he was briefly the first Prime Minister of the government of the Carpathian Ukraine until his arrest by the Czechoslovak government. After the annexation of Carpathian Ukraine by Hungary in March 1939, Brodij became a member of the Hungarian parliament and campaigned in vain for an autonomous status for his homeland. He disseminated his autonomous ideas in Transcarpathia through the newspapers Русская правда ( Russian truth 1939-1940) and Русское слово ( Russian word 1940-1944), which he published.

After the Red Army occupied Hungary in World War II , Brodij was arrested by the NKVD in Uzhhorod on November 25, 1945 and sentenced to death in May 1946 for collaborating with the Horthy regime. According to unconfirmed reports, he was shot dead on June 11, 1946 according to other sources, and buried in Uzhhorod. In 1991 he was rehabilitated.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brodij on the official website of the Ukrainian government , accessed on February 15, 2015
2. ↑ Biography Andrij Brodij on the website of the World Academy of Rusyn Culture ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 16, 2015 

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Head of Government of Carpathian Ukraine in 1938	Avgustyn Volozhyn