13 Facts About Lev Rebet

Lev Rebet was a Ukrainian political writer and anti-communist during World War II.

Lev Rebet was a key cabinet member in the Ukrainian government, which proclaimed independence on 30 June 1941.

Lev Rebet was born in Stryi in Western Ukraine, to a Ukrainian father and a mother of Jewish origins.

Lev Rebet was both deeply religious as a Byzantine-rite Catholic and very physically active from an early age.

Lev Rebet was a member of "Plast", the Ukrainian scout organization.

Lev Rebet joined the Ukrayinska Viyskova Orhanizatsiya, UVO at age 17.

On 30 June 1941, when the OUN proclaimed independence in Wehrmacht-occupied Lviv, Lev Rebet became the deputy prime minister of the Ukrainian government, appointed by the prime minister Yaroslav Stetsko.

When Stetsko was arrested, Lev Rebet became acting prime minister of the Ukrainian national government.

Lev Rebet spent the next three years in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Zellenbau; a section where political prisoners were kept.

Lev Rebet worked as the editor of a number of periodicals.

Lev Rebet was assassinated on 12 October 1957 in Munich by a KGB agent, Bohdan Stashynsky, using a hydrogen cyanide atomizer mist gun.

Lev Rebet's death was at first believed to have been from natural causes.

Lev Rebet reconstructed the crimes exactly as they had happened, revisiting the crumbling business premises at the Stachus, in the heart of Munich, where Lev Rebet had entered the office of a Ukrainian exile newspaper, his suitcase in his hand.