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Yurii Shukhevych
Yurii-Bohdan Romanovych Shukhevych (Ukrainian: Юрій-Богдан Романович Шухевич, 28 March 1933 – 22 November 2022) was a Ukrainian far-right politician. Son of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander Roman Shukhevych, Yurii was separated from his family at the age of 12 due to being a son of an "enemy of the people" and spent over 30 years in Soviet prisons. A member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, he was a long-serving leader of the Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shukhevych was elected into the Ukrainian parliament for Radical Party.
Yurii Shukhevych was born on 28 March 1933, in the town of Ohladów, Lwów Voivodeship, Poland (now Ohliadiv, Lviv Oblast of Ukraine). He was the son of Roman Shukhevych, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. He received one of his names in memory of his maternal uncle Yurko (Yurii) Berezynskyi, who had been a member of OUN and died in 1932 during a raid against a Polish post office in Horodok. In 1946, when Western Ukraine was occupied by the Red Army, he was arrested with his mother and grandmother, who were later imprisoned. Shukhevych himself ended up in an orphanage for children of enemies of the people in Donets Basin. He ran away home twice, meeting his father, who remained in the underground in Lviv, but later was taken back again.
In 1948, at the age of 15, 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 the Vladimir Central Prison. When his father was killed in action, in 1950, Yuri, now aged 17, was taken from Vladimir prison to Lviv to identify the corpse. He was released under an amnesty in 1954, after the death of Joseph 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 in Mordovia.
After his release in August 1968, he was forbidden to live in Ukraine. He settled in Nalchik, 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 the KGB in Kyiv, then sent back to Nalchik, and sentenced to another nine years in labor camps, followed by five in exile. In 1973, he wrote a letter to the UN from a labor camp in Mordovia, 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.
During his exile, Shukhevych became a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union. 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.
In December 1990 Shukhevych was elected as head of far-right paramilitary organization Ukrainian National Assembly which itself was renamed Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence (UNA-UNSO) in September 1991.
Shukhevych failed to register as a candidate in the 1991 Ukrainian presidential election because of a failure to collect 100,000 signatures.
In the 1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shukhevych failed to win after receiving no more than 7.44% of the votes in single-member districts in Zolochiv.
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Yurii Shukhevych
Yurii-Bohdan Romanovych Shukhevych (Ukrainian: Юрій-Богдан Романович Шухевич, 28 March 1933 – 22 November 2022) was a Ukrainian far-right politician. Son of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander Roman Shukhevych, Yurii was separated from his family at the age of 12 due to being a son of an "enemy of the people" and spent over 30 years in Soviet prisons. A member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, he was a long-serving leader of the Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shukhevych was elected into the Ukrainian parliament for Radical Party.
Yurii Shukhevych was born on 28 March 1933, in the town of Ohladów, Lwów Voivodeship, Poland (now Ohliadiv, Lviv Oblast of Ukraine). He was the son of Roman Shukhevych, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. He received one of his names in memory of his maternal uncle Yurko (Yurii) Berezynskyi, who had been a member of OUN and died in 1932 during a raid against a Polish post office in Horodok. In 1946, when Western Ukraine was occupied by the Red Army, he was arrested with his mother and grandmother, who were later imprisoned. Shukhevych himself ended up in an orphanage for children of enemies of the people in Donets Basin. He ran away home twice, meeting his father, who remained in the underground in Lviv, but later was taken back again.
In 1948, at the age of 15, 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 the Vladimir Central Prison. When his father was killed in action, in 1950, Yuri, now aged 17, was taken from Vladimir prison to Lviv to identify the corpse. He was released under an amnesty in 1954, after the death of Joseph 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 in Mordovia.
After his release in August 1968, he was forbidden to live in Ukraine. He settled in Nalchik, 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 the KGB in Kyiv, then sent back to Nalchik, and sentenced to another nine years in labor camps, followed by five in exile. In 1973, he wrote a letter to the UN from a labor camp in Mordovia, 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.
During his exile, Shukhevych became a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union. 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.
In December 1990 Shukhevych was elected as head of far-right paramilitary organization Ukrainian National Assembly which itself was renamed Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence (UNA-UNSO) in September 1991.
Shukhevych failed to register as a candidate in the 1991 Ukrainian presidential election because of a failure to collect 100,000 signatures.
In the 1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shukhevych failed to win after receiving no more than 7.44% of the votes in single-member districts in Zolochiv.
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