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Yevhen Petrushevych

1863–1940 · 20th century

Yevhen Petrushevych was a Ukrainian lawyer and politician from Galicia, a deputy in the Austrian parliament, who became president of the Ukrainian National Council of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918. In 1919 he was named dictator during the war with Poland. After the Polish victory he led a government in exile in Vienna, seeking international recognition for an independent eastern Galicia.

Yevhen Petrushevych
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West Ukrainian People's Republic

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