Information on the national hero Stepan Bandera and the activities he was involved in [UKR19019.E]

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.

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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.