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Vasyl Omelianovych Makukh (; 14 November 1927 – 6 November 1968) was a Soviet veteran of World War II, political prisoner, Ukrainians activist, and member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
Having been conscripted into the Red Army, in November 1944, Makukh defected and joined the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In February 1946, he was wounded and captured after a shootout with Soviet and Polish border guards at the Soviet-Polish border (today Poland–Ukraine border). On 15 February 1946, Makukh was taken to the district precinct of the KGB (soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs) in Velyki Mosty and later to Lviv Prison No. 4 (known as "Brygidki"). On 11 July 1946, the Military Tribunal of Lviv garrison sentenced him to 10 years of hard labour (katorga) with five years of detention ("civil rights restriction") plus the confiscation of all his property. Makukh served his sentence in Dubravlag (Mordovia) and other GULAG camps in Siberia. On 18 July 1955, he was freed and exiled to a local settlement, where he met a woman who had also served 10 years imprisonment. In 1956, both managed to return to Ukraine, and being forbidden to return to their own region, they settled in Dnipropetrovsk (today Dnipro), where they married and Makukh worked as a schoolteacher.
On November 5, 1968, he committed suicide by self-immolation on Khreshchatyk, Kyiv's main street, in protest against the Soviet Union rule of Ukraine, against russification The Ukrainian who set himself on fire protesting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia Euromaidan Press as well as the Soviet invasion in Czechoslovakia. "For our and your freedom!" - The feat of Vasyl Makukh Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" Before his death, Makukh shouted 'Long live free Ukraine!' He died the next day. On 6 November 1968 the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky District of Kyiv city opened a criminal case against him because of the suicide, the outcome of which was never made known.
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Categories: 1927 Births, 1968 Suicides, 1968 Deaths, People From Lviv Oblast, People From Lwów Voivodeship, Soviet Military Personnel Of World War Ii From Ukraine, Soviet Defectors, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Self-immolations In Protest Of The Eastern Bloc, Soviet Dissidents, Suicides In Ukraine, Suicides In The Soviet Union, Ukrainian Anti-communists, Ukrainian Dissidents, Anti-russification Activists, Suicides By Self-immolation
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