Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death of Ukrainian Nationalist Leader Stefan Bandera in Munich was officially listed as a suicide. Bandera, apparently, had a sudden seizure, fell and broke his neck. An autopsy revealed traces of cyanide, which Munich police surmised had been self-administered, causing the fall. But last week the case was reopened by the confession of the man responsible for Bandera's "suicide"-a former Russian secret-police agent named Bogdan Nikolaevich Stachinsky...
Fanatically devoted to the cause of Ukrainian independence from Russia, Bandera had fought alongside the Nazis against the Russians during World War II. After the war, his partisans continued to harass the Soviets until they were crushed in 1950 in an all-out Soviet effort. Bandera escaped to Munich, evaded at least four attempts on his life. Then the Soviet secret police assigned Agent Stachinsky...
Trained in a Moscow spy school for five years, Stachinsky showed up in Munich with a West German passport and an ingeniously designed murder weapon. Though his primary target was Bandera, the Soviets ordered him to perform a trial run on another Ukrainian Nationalist, Writer Lev Rebel. The weapon worked perfectly; the verdict was that Rebel's death was caused by a heart attack. Thus the stage was set for Bandera. As the Ukrainian leader hurried up the stairs of his apartment building one afternoon, Stachinsky stepped out of the shadows to meet him. The agent was wearing...
...Trenches. "Everything I am," says Reder, "I owe to Czernowitz," the Ukrainian city where he was born, the son of a Jewish innkeeper. Czernowitz, now Russian but then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was a town that thrived on folklore and legend, and even the grim periodic pogroms added to the sense of drama. At 17, Reder was drafted into the Austrian army, spent World War I in the trenches as one of the most wretched and incompetent of privates...
Today three of the most illustrious zaddikim live in the U.S., notably the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Twersky, from the Ukrainian town of Skvir and known as "the Skvirer Rabbi," who came to Brooklyn in 1948.* Six years ago, deciding that the city pressed too hard on community piety and godly raising of children, the Skvirer Rabbi moved with his followers about 40 miles from Manhattan to a 130-acre farm near the heavily Jewish village of Spring Valley. Here they planned a Hasidic haven of five-room cottages and laid out streets named for Presidents of the U.S. They intended...