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Avgustyn Voloshyn

1874–1945 · 20th century · Also known as Avgustin Voloshin

Avgustyn Voloshyn was a Greek Catholic priest, teacher and Ukrainian political leader in Subcarpathian Ruthenia. After the Munich Agreement he became prime minister of the autonomous region in October 1938, moving his government to Khust, and on 15 March 1939 he was named president of an independent Carpatho-Ukraine just before Hungary occupied it. Arrested by Soviet agents in Prague in 1945, he died in a Moscow prison.

Avgustyn Voloshyn
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