Lev Shankovsky ( uk, Шанко́вський Лев Петро́вич, ), (pseudonym - ''"Dzvin"'', ''"Oleh Martovych"'') was a Ukrainian military historian and former
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( uk, Українська повстанська армія, УПА, translit=Ukrayins'ka povstans'ka armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan formation. During Worl ...
(UPA) soldier, a leading member of the
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
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. He was a full member of the
Shevchenko Scientific Society
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Unlike the government-funded National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the society ...
.
Shankovsky was born in 1903 in the village of Duliby, Stryi Raion. He received military education in Ukrainian and Polish schools and served in the armies of the UPR and the UGA. Participants of the
First Winter Campaign
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(1920). During the
Second World War
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he participated in the Resistance in the
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( uk, Українська повстанська армія, УПА, translit=Ukrayins'ka povstans'ka armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan formation. During Worl ...
.
In January 1944, Shankovsky, as a leader of the UPA forces, headed the initiating commission that established contacts with representatives of former Ukrainian political parties as well as nonpartisan activists. Shankovsky, for example, asserted at a round-table discussion that organized anti-Semitism "never existed" in Ukraine.
Author publications: "Ukrainian Liberation Movement in Modern Times" (1951), " UPA and its clandestine literature" (1952), "The original group of
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Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( uk, Українська повстанська армія, УПА, translit=Ukrayins'ka povstans'ka armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan formation. During Worl ...
in the struggle for statehood" (1958), "
Ukrainian Galician Army
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and was interred in the Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery in