1. Yurii-Bohdan Romanovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian far-right politician.
16 Facts About Yurii Shukhevych
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Yurii Shukhevych spent over 30 years in the Soviet prisons and concentration camps.
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Yurii Shukhevych was born on 28 March 1933, in the town of Ohladow, Lwow Voivodeship, Poland.
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Yurii Shukhevych is the son of Roman Shukhevych, a commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
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In 1946 Yurii Shukhevych was taken away from his mother to an orphanage for children of enemies of the people in Donets Basin.
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Yurii Shukhevych ran away twice back home, but later was taken back again.
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Yurii Shukhevych 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.
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Yurii Shukhevych 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.
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Yurii Shukhevych was held in Vladimir Prison, then transferred to the Tatar prison.
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Yurii Shukhevych was allowed to return to his native Lviv in 1988, at the age of 55, after 44 years of absence.
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Yurii Shukhevych failed to register as a candidate in the 1991 Ukrainian presidential election because of a failure to collect 100,000 signatures.
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Early 2006 Yurii Shukhevych returned to politics and entered in the electoral list of the UNA-UNSO for the March 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election at number 1.
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On 19 August 2006, Yurii Shukhevych was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine "for civil courage, long-term social, political and human rights activities in the name of independence of Ukraine".
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In February 2014 Yurii Shukhevych signed a petition that asked to respect the Russian language and Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine lifestyle "so they do not feel like strangers in Ukraine".
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In October 2014 Yurii Shukhevych was removed from his post as UNA-UNSO chairman due to the fact that he had agreed to run for the parliamentary elections for Radical Party of Oleh Liashko.
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Yurii Shukhevych died in Munich in the night of 21 to 22 November 2022, where he was undergoing medical treatment.