Roman Muravetsky. Stepan Bandera as a mirror of Ukrainian uncertainty
Tepan Bandera was born in 1909 in the village of Stary Ugryniv in the Stanislav region (now Ivano-Frankivsk region). Even in early childhood, he was imbued with the ideas of nationalism, having adopted them from his father, a Greek Catholic (Uniate) priest, who since 1917 was actively involved in politics, organized rural military detachments, and in 1919-1920 fought desperately with the whites, and then with the reds." Muscovites,” after which he returned to his native, now Polish, village.