Yaroslav Stetsko

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Yaroslav Stetsko
Yaroslav and Slava Stetsko. Memorial plaque at Zeppelinstrasse 67 in Munich

Jaroslawa Jossypiwna Stezko ( Ukrainian Ярослава Йосипівна Стецько ; * as Anna Jewhenia Muzyka May 14, 1920 in Romaniwka near Ternopil , Poland ; †  March 12, 2003 in Munich ) was a Ukrainian politician.

Life

Jaroslawa Stezko was born in 1920 under the name Anna Jewhenia Muzyka in contested Galicia . After the Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Soviet War , the region had belonged to the Second Polish Republic since the end of 1920. As part of the Ukrainian minority in Poland, Stetsko witnessed the violent clashes that were fought with great doggedness in her childhood. The Jewish population of Eastern Galicia served all parties as an additional scapegoat.

In 1938 she became a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in Poland, which was directed both against Poland and against communist rule in the Ukrainian SSR . During the split in 1940, Muzyka became a supporter of the radical wing OUN-B led by Stepan Bandera . Before the German invasion of Poland , she had started studying at the University of Lemberg . During the Second World War Muzyka was a Red Cross sister in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army until she was arrested by the Wehrmacht in Lemberg in 1943 and deported to Germany.

After the end of the war, Muzyka stayed in West Germany, where Ukrainian collaborators and former forced laborers gathered and from there some emigrated overseas. She settled in Munich , where she married the Ukrainian politician in exile, Jaroslaw Stezko , who had also remained in the West . Both lived at Zeppelinstrasse 67. In Munich, Jaroslawa Stezko studied at the Ukrainian Free University of Munich . Together with her husband she built the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) and after his death in 1986 became its president and 1991 also president of the OUN-B. She was the editor of periodicals of the ABN, the organizer of their congresses and since 1986 was also a member of the Presidium of the World Anti-Communist League . These organizations were largely dependent on US money, had their political, organizational and financial climax during the Cold War , with the détente they came to the edge of politics.

Stetsko returned to Ukraine after Ukraine gained independence in 1991 , but was unable to take part in the first elections in 1994 as she was not yet naturalized . The Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (KUN), which she founded in 1992, moved into the Verkhovna Rada in a 1997 by-election . The KUN, which was founded as the successor party to the OUN-B, remained only a right-wing splinter party in terms of its electoral impact. In the 1998 parliamentary elections , Stetsko won one of three direct mandates for the party and opened the new legislative period as the senior president of the Verkhovna Rada.

When Stezko became seriously ill, she wanted to use the better treatment options in Munich. She is on the Baikove Cemetery in district Holossijiw in Kiev buried.

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.): Revolutionary voices: Ukrainian political prisoners condemn Russian colonialism . Foreword by Ivan Matteo Lombardo. Munich: Press Bureau of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations 1971

literature

  • Encyclopedia of Ukraine . Volume 5. St - Z. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1993
  • Bohdan Melʹnychuk; Myron Sahaĭdak; Viktor Unii︠a︡t: Virna Dochka Ukraïny. Slava Stet︠s︡ʹko: zhytti︠e︡pys u borotʹbi . Ternopilʹ: Aston, 2011

Web links

Commons : Slava Stetsko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Encyclopedia of Ukraine . Volume 5, 1993, pp. 54f
  2. ^ Frank Golczewski : Germans and Ukrainians 1914-1939 . Paderborn: Schöningh 2010, p. 564
  3. ↑ https://www.muenchen.tv/mediathek/tag/jaroslaw-stetzko/video/ukrainische-gedenkafel-beschmiert/
  4. ↑ a b Anton Schechowzow and Andreas Umland: Analysis: The emergence of Ukrainophonic party-like right-wing extremism in Ukraine in the 1990s , Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), June 13, 2012
  5. ↑ Roman Woronowycz: Slava Stetsko, nationalist leader, Verkhovna Rada deputy, this at age 83 , The Ukrainian Weekly, March 16, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Stetsko, Yaroslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stetsko, Yaroslav Yossypivna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Romaniwka near Ternopil , Poland
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2003
Place of death Munich