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Bandera, Stepan

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Bandera, Stepan (1909-1959)

Ukrainian nationalist politician, leader of the extreme Ukrainian National League that opposed Polish rule in Galicia (western Ukraine) before World War II. After the Galician capital, Lviv, was occupied by Nazi forces in 1941, Bandera's followers proclaimed an independent Ukrainian state and set up a government, but were arrested by the Germans and sent to concentration camps.

After the war, the term ‘Banderovites’ was applied to all militant Ukrainian nationalists who engaged in guerrilla warfare against the occupying Soviet authorities.



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