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Roman Kyrylovych Sushko (Ukrainian: Роман Кирилович Сушко; 9 March 1894 – 12 January 1944) was a Ukrainian officer and politician who served on the Provid (the émigré leadership) of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and later the Melnykite faction. He also cofounded its predecessor, the Ukrainian Military Organisation (UVO), and was a veteran of the First World War and the Ukrainian War of Independence, serving as a senior officer in the Sich Riflemen. Sushko collaborated with the Nazis from 1938 whereby he commanded two battalions, codenamed Bergbauernhilfe, as part of the planned OUN Uprising of 1939 and played an instrumental role in establishing the Ukrainian Central Committee in occupied-Poland. In January 1944, he was assassinated in Lviv by unknown perpetrators.

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Early life and education Sushko was born on 9 March 1894 in the village of Remeniv, Austrian Galicia (today part of Lviv Raion, Ukraine). He graduated from Lviv Academic Gymnasium in 1912 and went on to study at the Law Faculty of the University of Lviv. Sushko was active in the Sich and Plast movements.

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First World War During the First World War, Sushko commanded a company of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (USS) and fought in the battles of Makivka and Lysonia, rising to the rank of lieutenant. He was captured by the Russians in September 1916 and, as of March 1917, was held in a lightly guarded internment camp near Dubovka, alongside Andriy Melnyk and Fedir Chernyk [ukr]. In preparation for joining the Ukrainian War of Independence, Sushko worked with his fellow USS officers in the internment camp to organise a system of lecture courses for their fellow prisoners-of-war on political economy, the history and geography of Ukraine, and military affairs. On receiving word from Yevhen Konovalets about the permittance of former members of the Austro-Hungarian Army into Ukrainian ranks, Sushko escaped alongside his fellow officers in December.

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Ukrainian War of Independence Sushko arrived in Kyiv in early January 1918 and assisted in organising the Sich Riflemen under the Ukrainian People's Republic. He initially commanded one of two frontline infantry sotni, later commanding a kurin when the unit was expanded in March. Sushko's forces were among the frontline units that were reorganised under the command of Symon Petliura in order to launch a counteroffensive against the Kyiv Arsenal January Uprising and assist in liberating the city. Following the installation of the Ukrainian State in April and the demobilisation of the Sich Riflemen, Sushko accompanied Konovalets at a meeting with Dmytro Dontsov in July where they attempted to lobby Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi for its restoration.

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Sushko worked to organise the new Sich Riflemen formation in Bila Tserkva and commanded the main kurin of the unit during the November Anti-Hetman Uprising, being conferred the rank of colonel. He later commanded the Northern Group on the eastern front from January 1919 and, following a reorganisation, assumed command of the 11th Division in July. Around this time, Sushko met Princess Christina Trubetskaya-Dolgorukaya (going by the false name 'Skachkivska') whom he married soon after. With the Ukrainian People's Army caught in a 'death triangle', Sushko's 11th Division was deployed against Anton Denikin's White Volunteers in October 1919. Soon after the disbandment of the Sich Riflemen in December, Sushko was captured by Polish troops and interned in Lutsk. He was later released in March 1920 and commanded a brigade of the newly formed Sich Rifleman Division. Sushko co-founded the Ukrainian Military Organisation alongside his fellow riflemen and later led a brigade during the 1921 Second Winter Campaign, whereafter he was interned by the Poles until 1922.

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Interwar period and invasion of Poland Sushko moved to Lviv, now part of Poland, and in 1924 was a founding member of the Ukrainian Party of National Work (UPNR) which was later dissolved in 1925 when its members joined the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance. He settled in Prague where he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in 1927. That same year, Sushko became head of the UVO Home Command and was also military editor of the UVO/OUN underground periodical Surma (1927–1934), contributing articles on military theory and tactics. He was arrested by the Polish authorities on several occasions and, amid UVO cooperation with Weimar Germany and waves of arrests for pro-German espionage, his leadership generated discontent among members of the Home Command with there being efforts to remove him. Following the founding of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in 1929, it was decided that the UVO was to become the military department of the OUN, retaining its name for legal and propaganda purposes, with the OUN and UVO undergrounds merged in 1930. Sushko was a member of the OUN Provid (the executive command in exile) and worked in the organisation's military department. He travelled to the…Citește mai mult

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Collaboration with Nazi intelligence From 1938, Sushko led the training of OUN members in Wiener-Neustadt, Austria in collaboration with the Abwehr. This training encompassed lessons in military theory and ideological indoctrination while practical army drills were taught by Kriminalpolizei or Schutzpolizei officers. Sushko met with Generalmajor Erwin von Lahousen in June 1939 to discuss the deployment of OUN émigrés east, whereafter the Hungarian government agreed to release former soldiers of the Carpathian Sich from internment. Two battalions totalling 280 men were set up under the command of Major Hans Dehmel of the Vienna Abwehr branch and Sushko, codenamed Bergbauernhilfe (BBH) and also colloquially known as the 'Ukrainian Legion' or 'Sushko's Legion'. The BBH battalions were intended to act as a nucleus for a "Ukrainian uprising", together with OUN combat and sabotage groups within Poland, in order to divert Polish forces and sow disorder in the Polish rear. Sushko was instructed by Melnyk, now leader of the OUN, to form a state out of the first Ukrainian village reached, with the uprising envisioned as a means by which to liberate Eastern Galicia from Polish rule. In the first weeks of their invasion the Germans delayed triggering the uprising in the context…Citește mai mult

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Activity in occupied-Poland In October, Sushko lobbied the German authorities from his temporary base in Krosno for greater Ukrainian representation, the reactivation of the Prosvita society, the establishment of Ukrainian primary schools and gymnasiums, a Ukrainian university or faculty at Jagiellonian University, and the creation of a Ukrainian police or militia. On 17 November, a delegation headed by Sushko and Volodymyr Kubijovyč presented their demands to Hans Frank for a centralised organisation representing Ukrainians in the General Government. Given that the Germans insisted that the leader of such an organisation needed to be native to the territory so as not to upset the Nazi–Soviet alliance, he nominated Kubijovyč who was accepted. Sushko moved to Kraków in late 1939 to head the OUN executive in the General Government and maintained close contacts with the Abwehr, receiving assurances from Dehmel as to the development of Ukrainian police units and recruiting nationalists to work for German intelligence in the Soviet occupation zone. With the split of the OUN into Melnykites and Banderites, Sushko sided with the Melnykite faction. In April 1940 the Ukrainian Central Committee (UTsK) was formally established to distribute aid and welfare to Ukrainians in the General Government, based in the…Citește mai mult

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Sushko was assassinated in Lviv on 14 January 1944, likely perpetrated by Banderites or possibly by agents of the Gestapo. Melnykites blamed the OUN(b) for the assassination. Streets are named after him in Lviv and Brovary.

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