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Stepan Bandera

1909 - 1959

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Stepan Andriyovych Bandera (Ukrainian: Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра, IPA: [steˈpɑn ɐnˈd⁽ʲ⁾r⁽ʲ⁾ijoʋɪt͡ʃ bɐnˈdɛrɐ]; Polish: Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B. Bandera was born in Austria-Hungary, in Galicia, into the family of a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and grew up in Poland. Involved in nationalist organizations from a young age, he joined the Ukrainian Military Organization in 1924. In 1931, he became head of propaganda of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), and later became head of the OUN for Poland in 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stepan Bandera has received more than 4,038,370 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Stepan Bandera is the 345th most popular politician (up from 350th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 8th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi collaborator. He was the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in the 1930s and 1940s. He was assassinated by the KGB in 1959.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Stepan Bandera ranks 345 out of 19,576. Before him are Raúl Castro, Louis XVIII of France, Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Juan Perón, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Liu Bei. After him are Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, François Hollande, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Constantine XI Palaiologos, Gerhard Schröder, and Baibars.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Stepan Bandera ranks 1. After him are Nicholas Winton, Eugène Ionesco, Francis Bacon, Osamu Dazai, Simone Weil, Juliana of the Netherlands, Peter Drucker, Victor Borge, U Thant, Kwame Nkrumah, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. Among people deceased in 1959, Stepan Bandera ranks 1. After him are Frank Lloyd Wright, Ante Pavelić, Gérard Philipe, George Marshall, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson, Raymond Chandler, Billie Holiday, Adolf Windaus, Boris Vian, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Stepan Bandera ranks 7 out of 1,365. Before him are Leon Trotsky (1879), Hurrem Sultan (1502), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Golda Meir (1898), Nikolai Gogol (1809), and Sergei Prokofiev (1891). After him are John III Sobieski (1629), Kazimir Malevich (1879), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Joseph Conrad (1857), Hafsa Sultan (1479), and Viktor Yanukovych (1950).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Stepan Bandera ranks 5. Before him are Leon Trotsky (1879), Hurrem Sultan (1502), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), and Golda Meir (1898). After him are John III Sobieski (1629), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), and Leonid Kuchma (1938).

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