Yurii-Bohdan Romanovych Shukhevych | |
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Юрій-Богдан Романович Шухевич | |
 Shukhevych in 2010 | |
| Head ofUkrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence | |
| In office December 1990 – August 1994 | |
| In office October 2006 – October 2014 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| 8th convocation | |
| In office 27 November 2014[1] – 29 July 2019 | |
| Constituency | Radical Party, No.5[2] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1933-03-28)28 March 1933 Ohladów,Lwów Voivodeship,Second Polish Republic (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 22 November 2022(2022-11-22) (aged 89) Munich,Germany |
| Resting place | Lychakiv Cemetery,Lviv |
| Political party | Radical Party |
| Other political affiliations | Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence (December 1990 till October 2014) |
| Awards |  Order of the State |
Yurii-Bohdan Romanovych Shukhevych (Ukrainian:Ю́рій-Богда́н Рома́нович Шухе́вич, 28 March 1933 – 22 November 2022)[3] was a Ukrainianfar-right politician. A member of theUkrainian Helsinki Group, he was apolitical prisoner and the son ofRoman Shukhevych. He was a long-serving leader of theUkrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence.[4] Shukhevych spent over 30 years in the Soviet prisons and concentration camps.[5] In the2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shukhevych was elected into theUkrainian parliament forRadical Party.[6]
Yurii Shukhevych was born on 28 March 1933, in the town ofOhladów,Lwów Voivodeship,Poland (now Ohliadiv,Lviv Oblast of Ukraine).[4] He is the son ofRoman Shukhevych, a commander of theUkrainian Insurgent Army.[7] In 1944, when theWest Ukraine was re-occupied by theRed Army, he was arrested with his mother and sent toSiberia. In 1946 Shukhevych was taken away from his mother to an orphanage for children ofenemies of the people inDonets Basin. He ran away twice back home, but later was taken back again.
Arrested when he was 15 years old, Shukhevych was accused of being a member of the OUN-UPA, the nationalist underground organization that his father commanded. After he turned 16, in 1949, he was sentenced to 10 years in theVladimir Central Prison.[7][8] When his father was killed in action, in 1950, Yuri, now aged 17, was taken from Vladimir prison to Lviv to identify the corpse.[9] He was released under an amnesty in 1954, after the death ofJoseph Stalin, but the USSR Procurator General ordered that he be sent back to prison to complete his sentence. On the day of his release, in 1958, he was rearrested, charged with having conducted "anti-soviet agitation" in prison, and sentenced to another ten years, in a labor camp inMordovia.
After his release in August 1968, he was forbidden to live in Ukraine. He settled inNalchik, in the North Caucasus, married, had two children, worked as an electrician, and wrote an account of his 20 years in prison. In February 1972, he was arrested in Nalchik after anti-soviet literature was discovered during a police raid on his rooms and handed over to theKGB in Kyiv, then sent back to Nalchik, and sentenced to another nine years in labor camps, followed by five in exile.[10] In 1973, he wrote a letter to the UN from a labor camp inMordovia, for which another year was added to his sentence. He was held in Vladimir Prison, then transferred to the Tatar prison. During his time as a prisoner, Shukhevych went blind.
After he had completed his prison sentence, in 1983, he was exiled to Siberia, and kept in a nursing home in Tomsk. He was allowed to return to his native Lviv in 1988, at the age of 55, after 44 years of absence.[9]
In December 1990 Shukhevych was elected as head of far-right paramilitary organization Ukrainian National Assembly which itself was renamedUkrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence (UNA-UNSO) in September 1991.[11][8]
Shukhevych failed to register as a candidate in the1991 Ukrainian presidential election because of a failure to collect 100,000 signatures.[11][12]
In the1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shukhevych failed to win after receiving no more than 7.44% of the votes insingle-member districts inZolochiv.[4]
In August 1994 Shukhevych retired from active political life because of health problems and relationships with other leaders of the party had finally deteriorated.[4]
Early 2006 Shukhevych returned to politics and entered in the electoral list of the UNA-UNSO for theMarch 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election at number 1.[4] The party, however, lost the election and gained no more than 0.06% of the total votes.[4][13] The party did not participate in the2007 elections.[13]
On 19 August 2006, Shukhevych was awarded the titleHero of Ukraine "for civil courage, long-term social, political and human rights activities in the name of independence of Ukraine".[4]
In October 2006 UNA-UNSO re-elected Shukhevych as its chairman.[4] And again did so in June 2010.[14]
In February 2014 Shukhevych signed a petition that asked to respect theRussian language andRussian-speaking citizens of Ukraine lifestyle "so they do not feel like strangers in Ukraine".[4]
In October 2014 Shukhevych was removed from his post as UNA-UNSO chairman due to the fact that he had agreed to run for the parliamentary elections forRadical Party of Oleh Liashko.[4] In the2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shukhevych as a candidate (placed 5th on the party list) of Radical Party was elected into theUkrainian parliament.[6][15]
In 2015 he was instrumental in the drafting and passing of theUkrainian decommunization laws.[7]
He died inMunich in the night of 21 to 22 November 2022, where he was undergoing medical treatment.
The award ceremony for Shukhevych was preceded by a march of UPA veterans through Kyiv. Shukhevych's son Iuryi, the leader of the far-right paramilitary organization UNA-UNSO, accepted the medal on his father's behalf. Uniformed members of this, and other radical right-wing groups, dressed in brownshirts and black ties joined the UPA veterans.
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