Slava Stetsko
{{Short description|Ukrainian politician (1920–2003)}}
{{Family name hatnote|Yosypivna|Stetsko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Slava Stetsko
| native_name = {{nobold|Слава Стецько}}
| image = Stetsko slava.jpg
| imagesize = 279px
| caption = Stetsko in 1949
| birth_name = Anna Yevheniia Muzyka
| birth_date = {{birth date|1920|5|14|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Romanówka, Second Polish Republic (now Romanivka, Ukraine)
| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|3|12|1920|5|14|df=yes}}
| death_place = Munich, Bavaria, Germany
| order =
| office = Chairwoman of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations
| term_start = 5 July 1986
| term_end = 1996
| spouse = Yaroslav Stetsko
| party = OUN
| office3 = De facto first lady of Ukraine
| term_start3 = 30 June 1941
| term_end3 = 12 July 1941
| predecessor3 = Government established
| successor3 = Government disestablished
| predecessor = Yaroslav Stetsko
| successor = Organization dissolved
| office1 = Chairwoman of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists
| term_start1 = 18 October 1992
| term_end1 = 12 March 2003
| predecessor1 = Party founded
| successor1 = Oleksiy Ivchenko
| office4 = Member of the Central Committee of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations
| term4 = 1945/46–1996
| predecessor4 = Yaroslav Stetsko
| successor4 = Organization dissolved
}}
Yaroslava Yosypivna Stetsko ({{langx|uk|Ярослава Йосипівна Стецько}}, {{langx|pl|Sława Stećko}}; 14 May 1920 – 12 March 2003), also popularly known as Slava Stetsko, was a Ukrainian politician and a World War II veteran.
Born Anna Yevheniia Muzyka ({{langx|uk|Анна Євгенія Музика}}) in Romanówka near Ternopil in Poland, she became a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in 1938. When a schism occurred within the OUN in 1940, Stetsko went with the wing of the OUN-B led by Stepan Bandera. During World War II, she served as an orderly and nurse in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In 1943 Stesko was arrested by Germans in Lwów. She remained in Germany as an émigré after her release in 1944.http://www.wprost.pl/ar/?O=42006 Tygodnik Wprost
After the war, she married Yaroslav Stetsko in Munich, and became a member of the central committee of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) and its chairman after the death of her husband in 1986.[http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pages\A\N\Anti6BolshevikBlocofNations.htm Display Page] At that time she also became an executive member of the World Anti-Communist League.
Slava Stetsko returned to Ukraine in July 1991. The following year, she formed and became a chairman of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (CUN), the political party that was established in Ukraine on the basis of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which she also led for the last decade.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2003/110302.shtml |title=Slava Stetsko, nationalist leader, Verkhovna Rada deputy, dies at age 83 (03/16/03) |access-date=2016-08-13 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073111/http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2003/110302.shtml |url-status=dead }}
She died in Munich, after a short illness, and was buried at Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
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External links
{{Commons category|Slava Stetsko}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150101141420/http://oun-upa.org.ua/personalities/#stetsko_slava Slava Stetsko biography on Ukrainian OUN-UPA history site]
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