Yuri Shukhevich

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Jurij-Bohdan Romanowytsch Schuchewytsch ( Ukrainian Юрій-Богдан Романович Шухевич ; born March 28, 1933 in Ohladów , Lviv Voivodeship , Poland ) is a Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician. He was chairman of the Ukrainian right-wing extremist party UNA-UNSO from 1990 to 1994 and from 2005 to 2014 .

Life

Jurij Schuchewytsch with his father Roman Schuchewytschin in the 1940s

Jurij Schuchewytsch was born in Ohljadiw (today in Radechiv Raion , Lviv Oblast , Ukraine) as the son of the politician and officer of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( UPA) Roman Schuchewytsch . He lived in Kraków from 1939 to 1941 and then in Lviv until the Red Army marched in in 1944 . Then he and his mother were arrested by the NKVD and he and his sister were sent to a children's home in Chernobyl and in 1946 to an orphanage in Stalino as a “child of an enemy of the people ” . In 1950 he was briefly returned to western Ukraine so that he could identify his father, who was killed on March 5, 1950 by the Soviet MGB 5.

As an adult, he continued to be persecuted by Soviet authorities on charges of “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” and spent a total of 46 years in orphanages, political imprisonment and exile. Nevertheless, Shukhevytsch already had an active role in the Ukrainian liberation movement at this time and became a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki group in February 1977 . A letter he wrote to the United Nations in 1973 resulted in a one-year extension. From 1972 to 1979 he was a prisoner in Vladimirovka Prison and from 1979 to 1983 he was held in a prison in the Tatar ASSR . Subsequently, after he had completely lost his eyesight due to the strict conditions of detention, Shukhevich was forcibly placed in a home for the disabled in Tomsk Oblast .

After he was allowed to return to Ukraine, Shukhevich returned to Ukraine in October 1989, settled in Lviv and, despite his poor health, immediately became politically active again. At the invitation of international human rights organizations and the Ukrainian diaspora, after Ukrainian independence in 1991, he visited Western Europe, the USA and Canada.

On June 30, 1990, Shukhevytsch co-founded the Ukrainian non-partisan assembly ( Ukrajinska Mischpartyjna Asambleja "UMA") and in the same year became the first party leader of the nationalist and right-wing extremist party UNA-UNSO. He resigned the party chairmanship on August 7, 1994 after his health and his relationship with the party leadership had deteriorated, and for the time being largely withdrew from active political life. In 2005 he returned to politics and was re-elected chairman of the UNA-UNSO on October 15, 2005. On September 28, 2014, he was dismissed as chairman because he stood for the radical party Oleh Lyashko in the parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2014 . After this received 22 seats in the election, he was number 5 on the party list of the radical party Oleh Lyaschko, an independent member of the Verkhovna Rada . In February 2014, Shukhevich signed a petition to respect the Russian language and the way of life of Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine.

Honors

In August 2006, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko named Shukhevych a hero of Ukraine for his moral courage, long-term socio-political and human rights activities in the name of Ukraine's independence .

Web links

Commons : Jurij Schuchewytsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on Jurij Schuchewytsch from October 21, 2014 on the party's website, accessed on November 20, 2015
  2. ↑ Summary of the history of the UNA-UNSO on the party's website, accessed on November 20, 2015
  3. ↑ Members of Parliament on the Verkhovna Rada website , accessed on November 20, 2015
  4. ↑ Biography of Jurij Schuchewytsch on the website of "Heroes of Ukraine" ( memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 November 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ukrgeroes.narod.ru
  5. ↑ Biography Yuri Shukhevych on Lb.ua , accessed on November 20, 2015
  6. ↑ Decree No. 703/2006 of the President of Ukraine of August 19, 2006 , accessed on November 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Shukhevych, Jurij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шухевич, Ю́рій-Богдан Романович (Ukrainian); Schuchewytsch, Jurij-Bohdan Romanowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet dissident, Ukrainian politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Ohljadiw , Lviv Voivodeship , Second Polish Republic