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About Yaroslav Stetsko
Yaroslav Stetsko (19 January 1912, Ternopil, Ukraine - 5 July 1986, Germany) was a Ukrainian leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).
In 1929-1934, he studied philosophy at Lviv and Cracow universities. In 1930s, he became one of the leaders of OUN.
During World War II, at the beginning of the German-Soviet war, the OUN-B faction (headed by Stepan Bandera) proclaimed Ukraine's independence in Lviv on 30 June 1941, with Yaroslav Stetsko as a prime minister. After twelve days, all members of this government were arrested by Germans. Bandera and Stetsko were sent to Berlin and then into concentration camp Sachsenhausen-Zellenbau, where were held such political prisoners as Kurt Schuschnigg, Edouard Daladier, Stefan Rowecki, etc. Stetsko was kept there until December 1944, and was freed when Germans decided to form Ukrainian National Army led by general Pavlo Shandruk.
After World War II, he lived in Munich. He died of cancer on July 5, 1986 in the presence of his sister Oksana and her husband Dmytro Romanyshyn and Jaroslaw Pryszlak (part of family tree).
Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Yaroslav Stetsko (pseudonyms: Z. Karbovych, E. Orlovsky, S. Osinsky, B. Ozersky, and Y. Pidlesetsky) was born January 19, 1912 in Ternopil, Ukraine and died July 5, 1986 in Munich. Political leader and idealogue of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. As a youth he joined the underground Ukrainian Nationalist Youth organization and subsequently the Ukrainian Military Organization and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). In 1932 he was appointed to the OUN executive with responsibility for idealogy. The Polish authorities arrested him several times for his activities; in 1936 he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, but he was released under a general amnesty in 1937. He was responsible for the preparations for the Great Assembly of the OUN held in Rome in 1939. He became one of the members of the Revolutionary Leadership of the OUN, which emerged in 1940 and was headed by Stephan Bandera. At the Cracow Great Assembly he was elected Bandera's second-in-command. He participated in the organization of OUN expeditionary groups on the eve of the German-Soviet War. He prepared the proclamation of Ukrainian statehood of June 30, 1941; at the National Assembly in Lviv where the renewal of Ukrainian statehood was officially proclaimed, he was chosen premier of the Ukrainian State Administration. For refusing to annul the proclamation of statehood Stetsko was arrested by the Gestapo on July 12, 1941; he was first taken to Berlin and then incarcerated in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, until the fall of 1944. After his release he settled in Munich.
In 1945 Stetsko was elected to the Leadership of the OUN (Bandera faction). After the war he was active in the world anticommunist movement. In 1946 he was elected head of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN); he remained president of that organization until his death. In 1946 he was also chosen to head the foreign policy sector of the external units of the OUN. AS head of the ABN Stetsko signed an agreement of co-operation with the Chinese Anti-Communist League in Taiwan (1955), which resulted in an ABN mission (1957-1960) and later representation (until 1971) in Taipei. He also served on the executive of the World Anti-Communist League (established in 1967) and was a founder and life member of the honorary presidium of the European Freedom Council. At the Fourth Great Assembly of the Bandera faction in 1968, he was elected head, a position he retained until his death. A number of his works were published posthumously in "Ukrainska vyzvolna kontsepsiia" (The Ukrainian Liberation Concept, 1987) and "Ukraine and the Subjugated Nations: their Struggle for National Liberation" (1989). He left an account of the events surrounding the proclamation of Ukrainian statehood, "Trydtsiatoho chervnia 1941" (The 30th of June 1941, 1967).
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Yaroslav Stetsko's Timeline
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January 19, 1912
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Ternopil, Ukraine
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| 1986 |
July 5, 1986
Age 74
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Munich, Germany
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