Monument to Stepan Bandera

The bronze monument on Taras Shevchenko Street in Truskavets became a symbol of the struggle for the freedom of Ukraine in the 20th century to Stepan Bandera. The initiative belonged to Ruslan Kozyr. Its authors were sculptor Ivan Samotos and architect Vasyl Kamenshchyk from Lviv. It was opened on 19.02. 2010. Stepan Andreevich Bandera was born on January 1, 1909 in Stary Uhryn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, in the family of a Greek Catholic priest. From 1919 to 1927 Bandera studied at the Stryi Gymnasium. After graduating, in 1928 he entered the agronomic department of the Polytechnic High School in Lviv. Stepan Bandera studied there for eight semesters, but never passed the diploma exam due to his political activity. In 1930 he became a member of the OUN, deeply imbued with its ideology. In 1932 - 1933 Stepan Andriyovych became the deputy and head of the Regional Executive, the so-called commandant of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UMO). In June 1934, Polish police arrested Stepan Andreevich Bandera and other OUN members. During the Warsaw trial, they were tried for belonging to the OUN and for organizing political rallies. Stepan Andreevich was sentenced to prison in Kielce, Wronki and Brest, where he served until 1939. Following the German attack on Poland, the situation in the prisons became so critical that the prison administration was hastily evacuated and all prisoners were released. At the same time, OUN leader Yevhen Konovalets died and the OUN leadership was headed by Andriy Melnyk, a colonel. Returning to the OUN, Stepan Bandera began to demand his dismissal and a change in the organization's tactics. Such events contributed to a serious conflict. As a result, a group of people who supported Bandera was separated from the OUN and the OUN-B organization was formed in April 1941. He fought actively against Moscow and the Soviet government, for which the Soviet government saw him as a dangerous enemy. As a result of this situation, Stepan Bandera is constantly changing his place of residence, moving from place to place. He finally settled in Munich, where his daughter studied. There he spent the last years of his life on a forged passport in the name of Stefan Popel. On October 15, 1959, he was killed by KGB agent Bohdan Stashynsky, who shot him in the face with a jet of potassium cyanide from a special pistol. He was buried in a Munich cemetery five days later.

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Heroes cannot be forgotten!

You are nationalists, that's all! OUN and UPA - Who created this tyrant, killed the Soviet Heroes! Allegedly, on Нез ’to Independent Ukraine‘ ‘ I myself am from Odessa, I you, I can not stand freaking Natsiki! I would like to put -1000 stars, but here it is impossible, you are the same as separators in the Donbass! Right sector pancake. Just Bastards, who believe that we and ‘’ Kotsapi ’’ as you like to call them. They are like us, we are a brotherly people! They are not Muscovites, we are not Bandera, and not the Ukrainians! And you're still doing itching, banning the Russian language, and speaking about the Russians what freaks they are, and you will introduce your mother, yourself, like Natsik! The horror is simple!

The most amazing monument I have seen. The proportions of the body are wrong. In short, it's awful.