Slava Stetsko

Slava Stetsko
Слава Стецько
Stetsko in 1949
Chairwoman of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations
In office 5 July 1986 – 1996
Preceded by	Yaroslav Stetsko
Succeeded by	Organization dissolved
Chairwoman of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists
In office 18 October 1992 – 12 March 2003
Preceded by	Party founded
Succeeded by	Oleksiy Ivchenko
De facto first lady of Ukraine
In office 30 June 1941 – 12 July 1941
Preceded by	Government established
Succeeded by	Government disestablished
Member of the Central Committee of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations
In office 1945/46–1996
Preceded by	Yaroslav Stetsko
Succeeded by	Organization dissolved
Personal details
Born	Anna Yevheniia Muzyka (1920-05-14)14 May 1920 Romanówka, Second Polish Republic (now Romanivka, Ukraine)
Died	12 March 2003(2003-03-12) (aged 82) Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Political party	OUN
Spouse	Yaroslav Stetsko

Yaroslava Yosypivna Stetsko (Ukrainian: Ярослава Йосипівна Стецько, Polish: 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 (Ukrainian: 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.^[1]

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

She died in Munich, after a short illness, and was buried at Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.^{[citation needed]}