"I first learned about Banderites as bandits." Roman Shukhevych's daughter on her fate / hromadske

The Russian shelling of the Lviv Museum of UPA Corporal Roman Shukhevych once again reminded us that the modern Russian regime is not only about the psychopathic imperialist Putin, but also about the centuries-old war against Ukrainian statehood and independence.
The story of Roman Shukhevych's daughter, Maria Trilyovska, about the broken fate of the UPA commander's family members and her personal life path is reminiscent of episodes from the terrible modern times. In particular, about the same methods of persecution and murder of pro-Ukrainian residents in the occupied territories.
Arrests, imprisonment, torture, shootings - everything that we are currently witnessing from the side of the criminal Russian regime, the Shukhevych family also experienced.
In 1941, Roman's half-brother, engineer and musician Yury Shukhevych, was arrested on the street, and later his mutilated body was found in the Lviv prison. The mother and father of the UPA commander were sent into exile. It is still unknown where his father is buried.
No one knows where the body of Shukhevych's mother-in-law is either. In 1945, she was arrested together with her daughter, Roman's wife Nataliya Berezynska-Shukhevych, and two minor children, 12-year-old Yurk and almost 5-year-old Marusya.
Then the grandmother was separated from her daughter and grandchildren. She, constantly crying in prison, died. The children were also taken away from their mother - Yurko and Marusya were taken first to an orphanage in Chornobyl, and then to Stalino (modern Donetsk).
The story of the deportation of Shukhevych's children is very similar to the deportation of modern Ukrainian children to Russia.
Roman Shukhevych's daughter was adopted by another woman. The girl was issued a new birth certificate, where not only the year of birth was changed, but also the nationality - it was entered as Russian.
Only ten years later, Maria found out the truth - when she received a letter from her own mother, about whom she thought that she, like her father, had died.
In response to her mother's letter, Maria told about her successes - that she had become a Komsomol member, and that she had greatly injured her mother, who was imprisoned in Soviet camps.
See on hromadske the material of Maryana Pietsukh with memories of Maria Trilyovska about her father, juvenile detention and "exile" to Donbas.
1:05 The house where Roman Shukhevych died and which the Russians bombed now
3:08 The most valuable thing burned in the Shukhevych museum
3:55 Roman Shukhevych's only memory of his father from his daughter
5:10 "To Beloved Romchyk" - the signature of Shukhevych's future wife
6:19 "The first child died." The birth of Roman Shukhevich's children
8:20 What family furniture Roman Shukhevich's daughter managed to save
9:15 "I love you, but Ukraine more." Roman Shukhevych's confession to his wife
9:21 Secret meetings with his wife at the cemetery
10:37 The brother was shot, the parents were sent into exile. Persecution of the UPA commander's family
14:13 First arrest of Shukhevych's wife, change of surnames and hiding of wife and children
16:01 The second arrest of the wife along with the imprisonment of minor children
17:06 Death of grandmother in prison
18:14 Instructions for beating prisoners. Interrogation and beating of Shukhevych's wife
20:01 Marusya with her brother in the Chernobyl and Stalino orphanages
29:50 Roman Shukhevich's 14-year-old son escapes from the orphanage
21:41 Adoption of Marusi
23:20 Change of birth certificate. New nationality - "Russian"
24:40 How Shukhevych's daughter found out about the "Bander residents" as bandits
25:40 A letter from my mother, whom I buried in my thoughts
27:44 The second arrest of Yurk's brother for being interested in the circumstances of his father's death
29:25 Crossbow in the temple, so as not to appear alive
30:50 Shukhevych's body was never found
32:55 Yury Shukhevych's love for Roman Shukhevych's liason
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