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Stepan Bandera was born on January 1st, 1909 in the village of Uhryniv Staryi, district of Kalusz in Galiсia (Ivano-Frankivs'k oblast) which in that time belonged to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. His father, Andrey Bandera, was a Greco-Catholic priest in Uhryniv Staryi. His mother, Myroslava Bandera, is from an old priest family. She was the daughter of a Greco-Catholic priest in Uhryniv Staryi.
Stepan spent his childhood in Uhryniv Staryi, in the house of the parents and grandparents, growing in the atmosphere of Ukrainian patriotism and a living national culture, political and public interest.
In spring 1922, his mother died from tuberculosis on throat.
He has been the Head of Ukrainian Nationalists Organization (OUN).
Since 1931 – deputy of regional guides, then – head of regional executive of OUN and commandant of ULO. He was condemned to death for organization of murder of the Home Secretary of Poland in 1934 but a sentence had been vacated and commuted to life imprisonment. He was released in September 1939. In 1940 Bandera headed the revolutional group of OUN. On June 30th, 1941, he had been elected a member of the Government of the renewed Ukrainian state proclaimed in Lviv. He has been a prisoner of German concentration camps. After the war, he headed the movement of west units of OUN.
On October 15th, 1959 in the entrance of the house in the Krayitmar street, 7 (Kreittmayrstraße), in Munich, Stepan Bandera was found at 13:05 inundated with blood, still living. A medical examination exposed that the reason of his death was poison. Two years later, on November 17th, 1961, the German judicial bodies proclaimed that the murderer of Stepan Bandera was Bohdan Stashynskyi. He would have executed the Shelepin and Khrushchev orders. After the detailed investigation against Stashynskyi, a process took place from 8th to October 15th, 1962. The sentence was proclaimed on October 19th, in which Stashynskyi was condemned to 8 years' of heavy emprisonment. German Supreme Court confirmed at Karlsruhe that in the Bandera murder, the Soviet Government in Moscow was the main guilty.
On October 20th, 1959 Stepan Bandera was buried on the Munich cemetery Waldfriedhof.