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Bandera, Stepan Andriyovych

Date of birth:
January 1st, 1909 (Staryi Uhryniv, Austro-Hungary)
Date of death:
October 15th, 1959 (Munich, West Germany)
Buried on:
Waldfriedhof München
Nationality:
Ukrainian

Biography

Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist statesman and political leader. He was assassinated in 1959.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
January 22nd, 2010
For "defending national ideas and battling for an independent Ukrainian state".

Posthumously awarded. [Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 46/201]

Officially annulled on January 16th, 2011
Orden Derzhavy

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