Yevhen Stakhiv
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Yevhen Stakhiv | |
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| Native name | Євген Павлович Стахів |
| Born | 15 September 1918 |
| Died | 26 January 2014 (aged 95) |
| Allegiance |  Carpatho-Ukraine Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists |
| Battles / wars | Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine World War II |
| Awards |   |
Yevhen Pavlovych Stakhiv (Ukrainian: Євген Павлович Стахів; Polish: Jewhen Stachiw; 15 September 1918 – 26 January 2014) was a Ukrainian nationalist militant in the Donbas during World War II and a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
Yevhen Pavlovych Stakhiv was born in Przemyśl, in what was then Austria-Hungary and is now Poland, on 15 September 1918 to a Greek Catholic member of the Ukrainian Galician Army. The children of the Stakhiv family, including Yevhen, were imbued with a nationalist upbringing from birth, and all six sons would later join the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. From 1932, he was a member of Ukrainian school and youth organizations in Galicia during the Second Polish Republic. During this timeframe, he also joined the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
In 1938, amidst the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Stakhiv found himself in the territory of Carpathian Ruthenia, where he joined the ranks of the Carpathian Sich. In March 1939, at the end of the military conflict between the Kingdom of Hungary and the unrecognized Carpatho-Ukraine, he was captured by the Hungarians, but managed to escape to Nazi Germany through the territory of modern Slovakia.
In 1940, he worked with his older brother Volodymyr in the Ukrainian nationalist Ukrainian Press Service. In this time, he also studied at the Technical Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin).
World War II
Following the June 1941 Act of restoration of the Ukrainian state, the government of Nazi Germany arrested the main leadership of the OUN. In response to this, it was decided to hold a propaganda and educational campaign for an independent Ukraine. At this time, Stakhiv was a member of the southern "OUN marching group", and led the organisation of new OUN cells in German-occupied eastern Ukraine - in particular, the cities of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, Mariupol, and Luhansk. In 1942, after having received an assignment from Vasyl Kuk, Stakhiv, together with the OUN marching groups, launched an underground network in the Donbas, where he managed to get considerable support.