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Roman Shukhevych

1907 - 1950

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Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych (Ukrainian: Роман-Тарас Осипович Шухевич, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950) was a Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent against Nazi Germany for Ukrainian independence. He collaborated with the Nazis from February 1941 to December 1942 as commanding officer of the Nachtigall Battalion in early 1941, and as a Hauptmann of the German Schutzmannschaft 201 auxiliary police battalion in late 1941 and 1942. Shukhevych led some of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres, where tens of thousands of Polish civilians were killed. It is unclear to what extent Shuchevych was responsible for the massacres of Poles in Volhynia, but he condoned them afterwards, and directed the murders of Poles in Eastern Galicia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roman Shukhevych is the 311th most popular military personnel (down from 282nd in 2019), the 103rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 100th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Roman Shukhevych ranks 311 out of 2,058. Before him are Andrey Yeryomenko, Werner Mölders, Usama ibn Zayd, Zhao Yun, Paul Tibbets, and Orda Khan. After him are Nicolas Oudinot, Rochus Misch, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Vasily Blyukher, Henry Clinton, and Zhang Liao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Roman Shukhevych ranks 44. Before him are Maurice Blanchot, Erich Mielke, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Dora Maar, Hans Selye, and Lucien Laurent. After him are Solomon Asch, Otto Ohlendorf, Sisavang Vatthana, Barbara Stanwyck, Pujie, and Compay Segundo. Among people deceased in 1950, Roman Shukhevych ranks 25. Before him are Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Kurt Weill, Ramana Maharshi, Emil Jannings, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, and Karl Seitz. After him are Nicolai Hartmann, Cesare Pavese, Max Beckmann, Kuniaki Koiso, Ryuzo Shimizu, and Emil Abderhalden.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Roman Shukhevych ranks 103 out of 1,365. Before him are Reinhold Glière (1874), Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939), John Demjanjuk (1920), Alexander Archipenko (1887), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), and Vladimir Ivashko (1932). After him are Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Fanny Kaplan (1890), and Dmitry Bortniansky (1751).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Roman Shukhevych ranks 7. Before him are Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Nestor Makhno (1888), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), John Demjanjuk (1920), and Andrey Yeryomenko (1892). After him are Ivan Paskevich (1782), Alexander Samsonov (1859), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), Alfred Redl (1864), and Mikhail Kirponos (1892).

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