UKRAINE WW2 ANTI-SOVIET OUN-UPA UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS ORG. BANDERA COIN-TOKEN

Description

100 Years to Stepan Bandera
Series:
Outstanding Personalities of Ukraine
Condition:
UNC
Face Value
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Material
Copper-Nickel-Zinc
Mintage
5 000
Year
2009
Size
35,00 mm.
Weight
16,54 gram
Stepan Andriyovych Bandera (Ukrainian: Степан Андрійович Бандера;
1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian political activist
and leader of the Ukrainian nationalist and independence movement.
Bandera is a controversial historical figure honoured by the contemporary Ukrainian
nationalist movement, including the Right Sector
and at the same time condemned by some ethnic Poles and Jews.
In 1934, he was arrested in Lwów (in Ukrainian, Lviv) by Polish authorities
and was tried twice: for involvement in the assassination of the Polish minister of internal affairs,
Bronisław Pieracki; and at a general trial of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists executives.
He was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death,
but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
In September 1939, while Poland was being invaded,
under unclear circumstances Bandera managed to get freed from prison and proceeded to work,
with German support, for an uprising in the Kresy. These eastern Polish territories had a majority
Ukrainian population, and went on to become modern Western Ukraine.
At the same time, he tried to stoke unrest in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,
modern Eastern Ukraine. His goal was to establish a unified Ukrainian state,
composed of areas where the majority of inhabitants were ethnic Ukrainians,
but that had been under the control of Poland and the Soviet Union.
On 30 June 1941, eight days after Germany's attack on the Soviet Union,
Bandera in Lviv proclaimed an independent Ukrainian state.
His militant branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) thought that,
in their struggle against the Soviet Union, they had a powerful ally in Nazi Germany.
But the Germans arrested the newly formed Ukrainian government
and sent them to concentration camps in Germany.
Bandera was imprisoned by the Nazis until September 1944.
At that juncture, with the war going very badly against Germany,
Bandera was released in the hope that he would fight the advancing Soviet forces.
He established his headquarters in Berlin and received German financial,
material, and personnel support for his Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
After the war, in 1959, in Munich, Germany,
Bandera was assassinated by the KGB (Soviet security agency)
UNC, in capsule.
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