In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yosypovych and the family name is Shukhevych.
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Roman Shukhevych
Shukhevych in 1944
Nickname(s)
Tur, Taras Chuprynka
Born
(1907-06-30)30 June 1907 Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine)
Died
5 March 1950(1950-03-05) (aged 42) Bilohorshcha, Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Lviv, Ukraine)
Cause of death
Suicide by gunshot
Allegiance
UVO (1925–1929)
OUN (1929–1940)
Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)
OUN-B (1940–1950)
Nazi Germany (1941–1942)
National Government (1941)
UHVR (1944–1950)
Service/branch
Polish Army (1928–1929)
Carpathian Sich (1938–1939)
Nachtigall Battalion (1941)
Schutzmannschaft 201 (1941–1942)
UPA (1943–1950)
Years of service
1928–1950
Rank
General
Battles/wars
Invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine
World War II
UPA insurgency in western Ukraine
Awards
Cross of Combat Merit (posthumously)
Cross of Merit (posthumously)
Hero of Ukraine (posthumously; annulled in 2011)
Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych (Ukrainian: Рома́н-Тарас Йо́сипович Шухе́вич, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950) was a Ukrainian nationalist[1] and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent against the Nazi Germany for Ukrainian independence. He collaborated with the Nazis from February 1941 to December 1942 as commanding officer of the Nachtigall Battalion in early 1941,[2] and as a Hauptmann of the German Schutzmannschaft 201 auxiliary police battalion in late 1941 and 1942.[3]
Shukhevych was one of the perpetrators of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres of tens of thousands of Polish civilians.[3] It is unclear to what extent Shuchevych was responsible for the massacres of Poles in Volhynia, but he certainly condoned them after some time, and also directed the massacres of Poles in Eastern Galicia.[4][5] Historian Per Anders Rudling has accused the Ukrainian diaspora and Ukrainian academics of "ignoring, glossing over, or outright denying" OUN's role in this.[3]
^Anton Shekhovtsov (2011). "The Creeping Resurgence of the Ukrainian Radical Right? The Case of the Freedom Party"
Europe-Asia Studies 63:2, pp. 203–228. doi:10.1080/09668136.2011.547696. "Although originally the UVO was seen as both a military and a political organisation, its military actions were mostly terrorist, while its political activities failed altogether."
^Piotrowski, Tadeusz (9 January 2007). Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-2913-4. ...on the German side and Roman Shukhevych ('Tur', 'Taras Chuprynka') as head of the Ukrainian staff, wore the uniform of the Wehrmacht.
^ abcRudling, Anders (2016). "The Cult of Roman Shukhevych in Ukraine: Myth Making with Complications" (PDF). Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. 5 (1): 26–65. doi:10.1163/22116257-00501003. Source also available at online on the Brill Publishers website in the article The Cult of Roman Shukhevych in Ukraine: Myth Making with Complications; online publication date: 26 May 2016
^McBride, Jared (Fall 2016). "Peasants into Perpetrators: The OUN-UPA and the Ethnic Cleansing of Volhynia, 1943–1944". Slavic Review. 75 (3): 630–654. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.75.3.0630. S2CID 165089612. The OUN-UPA-planned ethnic cleansing continued unabated throughout summer 1943. The crescendo came on the night of July 11–12, 1943 when the UPA planned a highly coordinated attack (known among Poles as the 'Peter and Paul action' for the holiday on which it occurred) against Polish villages in three raions: Kovel', Khorokhiv, and Volodymyr-Volyns'kyi. Over one hundred localities were targeted in this action, and some 4,000 Poles were murdered. Finally, the last wave of attacks came in December 1943 before Shukhevych decided to move the cleansing operations to Galicia where tens of thousands more Galician Poles were murdered. Following the killings in Volhynia, the UPA-North group gave the order to 'destroy all traces of the Poles' by 'destroying all Polish churches and all other Polish places of worship'.
Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych (Ukrainian: Рома́н-Тарас Йо́сипович Шухе́вич, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5...
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faction of Ukrainian nationalists, OUN-B under Mykola Lebed and then RomanShukhevych, was committed to the ethnic cleansing of Volhynia. Taras Bulba-Borovets...
already renamed the city's General Vatutin Avenue into RomanShukhevych Avenue. During the war Shukhevych fought against Soviet forces, first being a company...
cancelling the Hero of Ukraine status given to Stepan Bandera and RomanShukhevych, Yanukovych should continue the practice of recognizing fighters for...
under German command. The unit would have had[vague] 800 persons. RomanShukhevych became a commander of the Legion from the OUN-B side.[vague] OUN expected...
monuments in the US to two Ukrainian nationalists, Stepan Bandera and RomanShukhevych, who collaborated with the Nazis. Bandera was a leader of Organization...
MediaDepo.[citation needed] Lviv honors the memory of Stepan Bandera and RomanShukhevych. The Lviv regional council approved an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers...
boycott of the Soviet-sponsored elections in 1946. After the killing of RomanShukhevych in 1950 by Soviet NKVD forces during battle, most members of the council...
real power rested in the hands of the General Secretariat, headed by RomanShukhevych. At the congress, decisions were made to stop any open collaboration...
last leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, following the death of RomanShukhevych. In 1954, he was captured by Soviet KGB troops and spent six years...
on 21 April satisfied an appeal that deprived RomanShukhevych the Hero of Ukraine title, as Shukhevych was not a citizen of Ukraine. "Belarusian Killed...
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Ukraine, but remain abroad and make propaganda for the cause of the OUN. RomanShukhevych resigned as the leader of the OUN, and became the leader of OUN in...
[citation needed] In 1943, under the command of RomanShukhevych, UPA began the ethnic cleansing. Shukhevych was one of the perpetrators of the Galicia-Volhynia...
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