Roman Shukhevych

Roman Shukhevych
Roman Shukhevych
	Shukhevych in 1944
Nickname(s)	Tur, Taras Chuprynka
Born	30 June 1907; Lemberg, Austria-Hungary
Died	5 March 1950 (aged 42); Bilohorshcha, Lviv Oblast, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Suicide by gunshot
Allegiance	UVO (1925–1929); OUN (1929–1940); Carpatho-Ukraine (1939); OUN-B (1940–1950); Nazi Germany (1941–1942); National Government (1941); UHVR (1944–1950);
Branch	Polish Army (1928–1929); Carpathian Sich (1938–1939); Nachtigall Battalion (1941); Schutzmannschaft 201 (1941–1942); UPA (1943–1950);
Years of service	1928–1950
Rank	General
Battles / wars	Invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine; World War II; UPA insurgency in western Ukraine;
Awards	Cross of Combat Merit (posthumously); Cross of Merit (posthumously); Hero of Ukraine (posthumously; annulled in 2011);

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. Historian Per Anders Rudling has accused the Ukrainian diaspora and Ukrainian academics of "ignoring, glossing over, or outright denying" OUN's role in the massacres.