Mykola Lebed

Mykola Lebed ( Ukrainian Микола Лебідь ; English Mikolai Lebed ; born November 23, 1909 in Novi Strilyschtscha , Austria-Hungary ; † July 19, 1998 in Pittsburgh , USA ) was a Ukrainian officer and politician.

Life

Lebed led the youth organization of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) from 1930 to 1932. In the following years he was the contact person between the OUN leadership in exile and the members in Galicia. In 1934 Lebed was sentenced to death by the judiciary of the Second Polish Republic for his involvement in the killing of Interior Minister Bronisław Pieracki . His sentence was changed to life imprisonment . During the German attack on Poland in 1939, he was able to escape from prison and joined the Bandera faction (OUN-B) of the now divided OUN. Lebed played an important leadership role in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). He was the founder of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR) and established contacts with the western allies from 1943/44.

He experienced the end of the war in Rome. In 1949 Lebed settled in the USA and, with the support of the CIA, continued the fight for a Ukraine independent of the Soviet Union . From 1953 Lebed was involved in the management of the CIA-funded émigré publishing house Prolog , which distributed nationalist, anti-communist and historical revisionist literature. He temporarily resided in Munich as a self-appointed foreign minister . Lebed died on July 19, 1998 in Pittsburgh, USA and was buried in St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery in South Bound Brook , New Jersey .

Works

UPA - Ukrains'ka povstans'ka armija , 1946.

Web links

Article on Lebed, Mikolai in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto; English)
http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1998/309803.shtml (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Stephen Dorril : MI6. Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service . The Free Press, New York NY 2000, ISBN 0-7432-0379-8 . ( limited preview online with Google Book Search ).
↑ http://www.wsws.org/de/articles/2014/05/24/swo2-m24.html
↑ Tim Weiner : CIA: The Whole Story . S. Fischer Verlags GmbH 2008, p. 74.
↑ [1] Biography Mykola Lebed on findagrave.com; accessed on July 27, 2016 (English)
↑ Bernadetta Wojtowicz: History of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Germany from the Second World War to 1956 , Harrassowitz Verlag , p. 189. ( limited preview online at Google Book Search ).

personal data
SURNAME	Lebed, Mykola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Лебідь, Микола (Ukrainian); Lebed, Mikolai (English); Лебедь, Микола Кириллович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ukrainian officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Novi Strilyschtscha , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	July 19, 1998
Place of death	Pittsburgh , USA

[1] Stephen Dorril : MI6. Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service . The Free Press, New York NY 2000, ISBN 0-7432-0379-8 . ( limited preview online with Google Book Search ).

[2] ttp://www.wsws.org/de/articles/2014/05/24/swo2-m24.html

[3] Tim Weiner : CIA: The Whole Story . S. Fischer Verlags GmbH 2008, p. 74.

[findagrave-4] [1] Biography Mykola Lebed on findagrave.com; accessed on July 27, 2016 (English)

[5] Bernadetta Wojtowicz: History of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Germany from the Second World War to 1956 , Harrassowitz Verlag , p. 189. ( limited preview online at Google Book Search ).