At the age of 89, Yuri Szuchewycz died – the enemy of our nation, the political prisoner of the russian period, the boy of the chief commander of the Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA) Roman Szuchewycz. associate of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. associate of the ultimate Council of Ukraine of the 8th word of office for the extremist Party. He died like Stepan Bandera in Germany, but he naturally did. He was there for treatment.
His father led the UPA. The troops led by Roman Szuchewych UPA during planet War II carried out mass murders on Polish people in Volyn, among others. He spent 28 years in prisons and camps of the USSR as a political prisoner. From 1948 to 1958, he was in prison in Włodzimierz on Klazma, then in camps. Fired in 1968. He was banned from returning to Ukraine. He lived in Nalczyk, Kabardino-Balkarska ASRR. In 1972, he again imprisoned and sentenced to 10 years of a peculiar government camp and 5 years of exile. He held his punishment in the prison in Włodzimierz, later in the prison in the Chalepol in Tartarska ASRR. In 1990 he was allowed to return to Ukraine.
In 1990 he organized and until 1994 led an highly right-wing UNA-UNSO organization. In August 2006, president Viktor Yushchenko gave Shuchewycz the title of Hero of Ukraine.
Szuchewycz never expressed regret about the criminal activity of Ukrainian chauvinists. In an interview he said, “I do not agree that it was genocide, but both sides, Polish and Ukrainian, committed war crimes. Today, the full blame consists of the shoulders of the Ukrainians, and it wasn't like that. I can give many examples of Polish wines.” In 2011, at a rally in Lviv, together with Rostyslaw Nowożence, he called for the joining of Ukrainians surviving in Ukraine of the lands located in Poland: Lemkowszczyzna, Nadsania, Chełmszczyzna and Podlasie. He felt that there were no another foundations for Ukrainian statehood in an interview with “Gazeta Wyborcza” said “What, if not UPA, are we to build our patriotism? The Knights' Bands of Kiev Rus? On resumes of Ukrainians like Khrushchev and Brezhnev? How about the Bolshevik legend of Stachanov? (...) Only on the UPA story Ukrainians can build their national identity today. Especially since they've been bullied as a nation for years. The Russians pushed us to the folk ghetto. The Ukrainian speech was to be an attribute of a villager in a worn shirt, and on the another hand Dostoevsky, Czechov, Tchaikovsky, Rublow, Mendelev, Bolszoi Theatre and flights into space (...)”
Łukasz Marcin Jastrzębski
