Bandera

October 5, 1959 in Munich, in an operation carried out by the KGB, was killed the leader of the Ukrainian nationalists Stepan Bandera. I invite you to remember (and those who did not know know) how and for what Bandera was killed and what role he played in the history of Ukraine. A resident of Munich Stefan Popel

October 15, 1959 in Munich was taken to hospital with a man covered in blood person. Call a physician neighbors knew him as a victim of Stefan Popel. When medics arrived, Popiel was still alive. But save his doctors do not have time. Popel died on the way to the hospital, without regaining consciousness. Doctors could only ascertain the death and to establish the cause. Although delivered had a crack in the base of the skull, resulting in the fall, the immediate cause of death was heart failure.

When viewed on Popel found a holster with a gun, it was the occasion to call the police. Police officers arrived quickly established that the true name of the dead - Stepan Bandera, and he is the leader of Ukrainian nationalists. The body was examined repeatedly over carefully. One of the doctors noticed the smell of bitter almonds, which went from the face of the deceased. Vague suspicions were confirmed: Bandera was killed: poisoned by cyanide.

Necessary Foreword - 1: OUN

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) originated in western Ukraine in 1929 as a response to the oppression of the Polish authorities of the Ukrainian population of Galicia. According to the contract of 1921 Poland undertook to provide Ukrainians with the Poles equal rights, autonomy, the University and create all conditions for cultural development.

In fact, the Polish authorities have carried out in relation to the policy of forced assimilation of Galicia, polonisation and stick a catholic faith. The local authorities were appointed to all positions only Poles. Closed Greek Catholic churches and monasteries. In the few schools with Ukrainian language of instruction taught by a teacher-Poles. Ukrainian teachers and priests were persecuted. Closed reading rooms, destroyed Ukrainian literature.

Ukrainian population of Galicia meet the mass actions of disobedience (refusal to pay taxes, participate in the census in the elections to the Senate and Sejm, serving in the Polish army) and sabotage acts (arson military depots and public institutions, damage telephone and telegraph communications, the attack on the gendarmerie) . In 1920, former members of the UPR and ZUNR was created SVR (Ukrainian military organization), which became the basis established in 1929, OUN.

Necessary Foreword - 2: Bandera

Bandera was born in 1909 in a family of Greek-Catholic priest, a supporter of Ukraine's independence. Already in the 4th grade school Bandera became a member of the semi-legal nationalist organization of students participated in the organization shares the boycott and sabotage the decisions of the Polish authorities. In 1928, Stepan joined the SVR, and in 1929 - OUN.





Thanks to their outstanding leadership he bystrovydvinulsya the lead. Since the beginning of the 30s the organization's leadership puts the organization in the Bandera fighting and terrorist actions. Enemies Bandera considers not only Poland, but also Soviet Russia. It organizes the murder of the Secretary of the Soviet consulate in Lviv A. Maylova (October 1933) and the Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland Peratskogo (June 1934).

Since 1939, Bandera - a recognized leader of the revolutionary wing of the OUN leader and inspirer of the underground nationalist movement in Western Ukraine. The commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) Shukhevych always said that is subject only to Bandera.

In the autumn of 1949 the USSR Supreme Court in a closed session Stepan Bandera was sentenced to capital punishment - the death penalty. The bodies were tasked to eliminate the leader of the OUN.



Liquidator Bogdan Stashinsky

In May 1958 in Rotterdam gathered the entire leadership of the OUN. May 23 at the city cemetery at the grave of the founder of the organization Eugene Konovalets held a mourning rally dedicated to the 20th anniversary of his death. (May 23, 1938 Konovalets was killed by NKVD agent P. Sudoplatov.) First appeared at the rally Bandera. Among those present - a young man, according to the documents - Hans Joachim Budayt, born in Dortmund. In fact it was a KGB agent Bogdan Stashinsky entrusted with the liquidation of OUN leader.



A member of the OUN Stashinsky was recruited by the NKVD in 1950. His track record in the implementation of the detachment and the subsequent destruction of the Bandera gang murder in 1957 of one of the leaders of the OUN Lev Rebet. Since 1958, its purpose - Bandera. In Rotterdam Stashinsky arrived with the sole purpose - to see in the face of the "object" of future action. He gazed at the speaker.



Everything is ready for surgery

In May 1959 Stashinsky arrived in Munich. It's here somewhere, according to operative data of the KGB, living under an assumed name Bandera. By October Stashinsky Bandera tracked down and fixed his address - Kristmanshtrasse 7. Liquidator got a secret weapon - a double-barreled cylinder with a spring and trigger mechanism, charged with ampoules of hydrocyanic acid (cyanide). Under the influence of pore charge low power ampoule broken, the poison is thrown to a distance of 1 meter. Inhaled vapors person loses consciousness, the victim's heart stops. Himself Performer shares previously taking the drug, neutralizing the poison.



That's Stashinsky in 1957 was killed by Lev Rebet. Operation to eliminate Rebet successful doctors pronounced him dead of a heart attack. Now turn Bandera.

Elimination

October 15 around 12:50 Stashinsky, a few minutes ahead of Bandera, comes into the entrance of the house and climbs several flights up. When he heard the front door slam, he put the antidote pill under the tongue and began to descend. Having caught up with Bandera, Stashinsky threw out his hand wrapped in a paper cylinder and blew venom in the face OUN leader. Not breaking stride or looking back, the agent went to the door. Even closing the door behind him, he heard the sound of a fallen body.



Source: dimka-jd.livejournal.com

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