Today's episode is about Stepan Bandera - a Ukrainian nationalist, politician, activist, and thinker who strove towards Ukrainian independence during both the world wars, in between and after them. Loved in Ukraine and hated in the Soviet Union, he is still misunderstood today. So who was he really?

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"When people choosing between bread and freedom choose bread, they ultimately lose everything, including bread. If people choose freedom, they will have bread they made themselves, bread not taken away by anyone." - Stepan Bandera

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The music used in this episode is "Elegy in Memory of Shevchenko" by the wonderful Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko.