19 Facts About Mykola Stsiborskyi

Mykola Stsiborskyi sided with Andriy Melnyk when the OUN split into two hostile factions, and was likely murdered by followers of Melnyk's rival Stepan Bandera.

Mykola Stsiborskyi was born in Zhytomyr, Volhynian Governorate, Ukraine to the family of a tsarist army officer.

Mykola Stsiborskyi was wounded twice and was awarded the Order of Saint Anna 3rd and 4th degrees, St Stanislav of 3 degrees and Cross of St George, 4th degree.

Mykola Stsiborskyi was one of eight members of the OUN's Provid, or leadership council, that in the 1930s had been based in Rome.

In 1939, while the OUN was preparing for its Second Congress, Mykola Stsiborskyi was assisted by Yaroslav Stetsko, a close ally of Stepan Bandera.

In 1941 the Melnyk faction of the OUN of which Mykola Stsiborskyi was a significant leader became involved in stimulating a rebirth in Ukrainian culture in Zhytomir, the first major Ukrainian town east of the 1939 Soviet border that had been captured by German forces.

An earlier article had declared that Bandera promised that Senyk and Mykola Stsiborskyi would be the first people whom he would destroy in the Ukrainian lands, the OUN-B had issued a secret directive forbidding OUN-M's leaders from entering eastern Ukraine, and immediately after the assassination leaflets were distributed in Kyiv by Bandera's followers that justified the act.

Mykola Stsiborskyi was the principal theorist of the OUN prior to its split into the hostile Melnyk and Bandera camps.

Mykola Stsiborskyi believed that the idea of democracy that began to spread throughout the world following the French Revolution had reached its high point prior to World War I and subsequently came into decline.

Mykola Stsiborskyi wrote that democracy and capitalism were inseparable, and that the two systems helped bring about much material progress and innovation throughout the nineteenth century.

Mykola Stsiborskyi felt that democracy and capitalism required equal rights and freedoms while, at the same time, nature was inherently not equal.

The reality in a democracy, according to Mykola Stsiborskyi, was that political rights and social control existed in direct proportion to economic power.

Mykola Stsiborskyi considered socialism and communism to be identical in their theories and worldview, and wrote that both were flawed reactions to democracy's failures.

Mykola Stsiborskyi rejected their emphasis on the Proletariat and claimed that socialism, as well as communism, inevitably leads to a dictatorship in favor of one social group at the expense of others in the nation.

In opposition to democracy, socialism and communism, Mykola Stsiborskyi admired Italy's fascism.

Mykola Stsiborskyi wrote that society should be organized according to the principles of national syndicalism, a socioeconomic system adopted by Benito Mussolini.

Mykola Stsiborskyi was married to a Jewish woman and in his writings opposed antisemitism.

Mykola Stsiborskyi wrote that Jewish rights should be respected, that the OUN ought to convince Jews that their organization was no threat to them, and that Ukrainians ought to maintain close contacts with Jews nationally and internationally.

An internal German memo attributed the deterioration in the relationship between Germany and the OUN between 1933 and 1937 in part to Mykola Stsiborskyi having a Jewish wife.