Memories of Yuri Shukhevych

November 25, 2022, Lviv.

In the video: an employee of the Lviv Historical Museum shares her memories of Yuri Shukhevych's visit to the Museum of General-Coroner of the UPA Roman Shukhevych; various plans of the monument to Roman Shukhevych, the exterior of the museum; researcher Petro Franko tells how Yuriy perceived his father's death, recalls their meeting in the 1950s; a comment by a research associate on the significance of Shukhevych's figure.

Comments: research associate of the Lviv Historical Museum, the Museum of General-Coroner of the UPA Roman Shukhevych Lyubov Detsko; head of the All-Ukrainian Society of Political Prisoners, researcher Petro Franko; research associate of the National Memorial Museum of Victims of Occupation Regimes "Prison on Lontskogo" and the Center for the Study of the Liberation Movement Olesya Isayuk.

Reference: Yuriy-Bohdan Shukhevych is a Ukrainian politician, human rights activist, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, a long-time political prisoner of the Soviet regime. Son of the commander-in-chief of the UPA, Roman Shukhevych. In the 1990s–2000s, he headed the Ukrainian National Assembly and the Ukrainian People's Self-Defense (UNA–UNSO), was a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 8th convocation. Author of the law on the recognition of fighters for the independence of Ukraine in the 20th century. Died on November 22, 2022 in a hospital in Munich (Germany).