Roman Shukhevych

Roman Shukhevych (pseudonyms: "White", "Bell", "Roman Lozovsky", "Stepan", "Monk", "Chukh", "Tour", "Taras Chuprinka"; June 30, 1907, Lviv - March 5, 1950, Bilogorshcha, now part of Lviv) - Ukrainian politician and statesman, military commander. Member of the Galician regional leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Commander on behalf of the Ukrainians of the Ukrainian military unit "Nakhtigal" in the foreign legions of the Wehrmacht (1941-1942). General-Cornet, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Head of the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council (1943-1950). Fighter for the independence of Ukraine in the XX century.

In 2007, Roman Shukhevych was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the State . Posthumously named the highest honorary stratum degree of the Hetman's bracket (1950) .

Petro Duzhiy, an ideologue of the OUN, wrote about Shukhevych: "The struggle for the will of the Ukrainian people, for its sovereign state existence and prosperity became the meaning of life of Roman Shukhevych - a man of exceptional temper."

Roman Shukhevych saw his historic appointment to senior positions in the Ukrainian liberation and revolutionary movement of World War II in order to consolidate the OUN forces rocked by Nazi repression, eliminate differences and the crisis in the OUN leadership that arose in early 1943, and support the initiative of the National OUN on PZUZ on the creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and turn it into an instrument of struggle for the Ukrainian independent conciliar state.

Shukhevych, realizing the need to democratize some organizational and ideological foundations of the OUN, focused the Organization on the creation of an all-Ukrainian political representation in the form of the UHVR. Due to this, the Ukrainian liberation-revolutionary movement, initially represented only by the OUN, from the summer of 1944 gained national significance, lost mono-party influence and began to move east .