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Life. Stepan Ganushevsky at the Taras Shevchenko Bandurist Chapel. He was born in dori village near Yaremche. His father, Mykhailo Hanushevsky, was a parish priest of Dora village in 1911, then Uhornyky near Stanislavov. In 1935, Kost Misevich came here with a concert and lived in the Hanushevsky family. Stepan took from him the first lessons of playing bandura. After graduating from the gymnasium, in 1937 he moved to Lviv,where he visited the Higher Music Institute named after M. Lysenko. 1940-Plays in a bandura group led by Yuri Sinalevich. 1944-He left for Germany,where he joined the Taras Shevchenko Bandurist Chapel and acted as a soloist. In 1949 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia. There he created an ensemble of bandura players, who often performed in cities in the United States and Canada. 1955-Moves to Rochester. In the 1960s, he fell seriously ill.
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan formation. During World War II, it was engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Soviet Union, the Polish Underground State, Kingdom of Romania, Communist Poland and Nazi Germany. It was established by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The insurgent army arose out of separate militant formations of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera faction (the OUN-B), other militant national-patriotic formations, some former defectors of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, mobilization of local populations and others. The political leadership of the army belonged to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera. It was the primary perpetrator of the ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. Its official date of creation is 14 October 1942, day of the Intercession of the Theotokos feast. The Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army at the period from December 1941 till July 1943 has the same name (Ukrainian Insurgent Army or UPA). The OUN's stated immediate goal at the time of the German invasion of the Soviet Union was the re-establishment of a united, independent Nazi-aligned, mono-ethnic national state on the territory that would include parts of modern-day Russia, Poland, Romania and Belarus. Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a dictatorship that would drive out what they considered to be occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups. The organization began as a resistance group and developed into a guerrilla army. In 1943, the UPA was controlled by the OUN(B) and included people of various political and ideological convictions. Furthermore, it needed the support of the broad masses against both the Germans and the Soviets. Much of the nationalist ideology, including the concept of dictatorship, did not appeal to former Soviet citizens who had experienced the dictatorship of the Communist Party. Hence, a revision of the OUN(B) ideology and political program was imperative. At its Third Extraordinary Grand Assembly on 21-25 August 1943, the OUN(B) condemned "internationalist and fascist national-socialist programs and political concepts" as well as "Russian-Bolshevik communism" and proposed a "system of free peoples and independent states [as] the single best solution to the problem of world order." Its social program did not differ essentially from earlier ones, but it emphasized a wide range of social services, worker participation in management, a mixed economy, choice of profession and workplace, and free trade unions. The OUN(B) affirmed that it was fighting for freedom of the press, speech, and thought. Its earlier nationality policy, encapsulated in the slogan "Ukraine for Ukrainians"; in 1943, the most extreme elements of it were officially abandoned, although the actual policy of the OUN(B) hadn't changed significantly, and the UPA undertook ethnic cleansing in 1943. During its existence, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army fought against the Poles and the Soviets as their primary opponents, although the organization also fought against the Germans starting from February 1943-with many cases of collaboration with the German forces in the fight against Soviet partisan units. From late spring 1944, the UPA and Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-B (OUN-B)-faced with Soviet advances-also cooperated with German forces against the Soviets and Poles in the hope of creating an independent Ukrainian state. The OUN also played a substantial role in the ethnic cleansing of the Polish population of Volhynia and East Galicia, and later preventing the deportation of the Ukrainians in southeastern Poland. After the end of World War II, the Polish communist army-the People's Army of Poland-fought extensively against the UPA. The UPA remained active and fought against the People's Republic of Poland until 1947, and against the Soviet Union until 1949. It was particularly strong in the Carpathian Mountains, the entirety of Galicia and in Volhynia-in modern Western Ukraine. By the late 1940s, the mortality rate for Soviet troops fighting Ukrainian insurgents in Western Ukraine was higher than the mortality rate for Soviet troops during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Between February 1943 and May 1945, unlike most resistance movements, it had no significant foreign support. Its growth and strength were a reflection of the popularity it enjoyed among the people of Western Ukraine. Outside of Western Ukraine, support was not significant, and the majority of the Soviet (Eastern) Ukrainian population considered, and at times still viewed, the OUN/UPA to have been primarily collaborators with the Germans.
The OUN pursued a policy of infiltrating the German police to obtain weapons and training for fighters. In that role, it helped the Germans to carry out the Holocaust. Although most Jews were actually killed by Germans, the OUN police, working for the Germans, played a crucial supporting role in the liquidation of 200,000 Jews in Volhynia in the second half of 1942 although in isolated cases Ukrainian policemen also helped Jews to escape. Most of the police deserted in the following spring and joined UPA.
Source: 1. Songs of mother's heart / Compiler R.P. Radyshevsky.-Kyiv: Publishing Center "Prosvita", 2006.-351p. 2. For the will of Ukraine / Compiler Eugene Gishchinsky.-Lutsk: Educational and Methodical Center of Culture of Volyn, 2007.-391.
Section 1, Song - I'm leaving you today, Ukrainian insurgent song. Words and music: folk. Lyrics, I'm leaving you today Defend the native land Maybe I'll come back, or maybe I don't know You girl remember me (2 times) You remember those happy moments We fell in love as we loved Your face is kind and sweet Your eyes are as deep as dreams (2 times) And at home an old mother His son looks out the window Will return from the dark forest Will mom improve life (2 times) Oh don't cry don't cry old mother Your son is not in the world He died in rebel battle The grave remained sad (2 times) They called their army They swore to defend their native land That Ukrainian blood was not shed And to cheer up the old woman (3 times) This insurgent song was performed by a bandura band in the United States, composed by Stepan Mykhailovych Hanushevsky. Mr. Stepan was born in 1917, in the village of Dori, near the town of Yaremche. After graduating from high school, in 1937 he moved to Lviv, where he attended the Lysenko Higher Music Institute, and in 1940 he began playing in a bandura group led by Yuri Singalevich. In 1944 he left for Germany, where he joined the Taras Shevchenko Bandura Band and performed as a soloist. In 1949, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia. There he formed a bandura ensemble, which often performed in the cities of the United States and Canada. In 1950, the ensemble recorded six songs released by the Surma Bookstore in New York: Among those songs was the song "I'm Leaving You Today." There are allegations that the author of the song "I'm leaving you today" is the ensemble of Ganushevsky, or Stepan Mikhailovich Ganushevsky himself, but this is unknown. Most likely, the ensemble simply sang insurgent songs.
Most of the authors of Ukrainian insurgent songs are unknown, so there is little information about the authors of the songs. Most of the authors died in the war or in Soviet concentration camps.
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