UPA

Ivan Honcharuk — the last executed UPA soldier. He was killed on 12 July 1989. For Ukraine

On July 12, 1989, during Gorbachev’s “Perestroika”, when the world had already begun speaking of the “democratization” of the USSR, the Soviet regime carried out a public execution of a Ukrainian insurgent — Ivan Honcharuk, a former UPA fighter from Volyn. This was the last politically motivated death sentence in the USSR — and it targeted a Ukrainian.