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IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For information on the the Ukrainian
national hero Stepan Bandera please consult the attached entries
from the Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Stepan Bandera and the
Organization of Ukrainain Nationalists (OUN). The attached article
on Ukraine in World War Two, which mentions the activities of
Bandera and the OUN, might also be of interest to you.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 1984.
Vol. 1. V. Yaniv. "Stepan Bandera," Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, pp. 169
_____. Vol. 3. M. Yurkevich.
"Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists." Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, pp. 708-710
Marples, David. 1992. Stalinism in
Ukraine in the 1940s. New York: St. Martin's Press, pp.
64-81.