Avgustyn Voloshyn
Awgustyn Ivanovich Woloschyn (Ukrainian Авґустин Волошин, Czech Augustin Vološin; born March 17, 1874 in Kelecsény, Rajon Mischhirja; † July 19, 1945 in Moscow ) was a Carpathian Ukrainian politician, teacher and writer. He was in 1939 for a few days President of the independent Carpatho -Ukraine.
Life
Woloschyn on March 17, 1874 in Kelecsény (now Keletschyn / Келечин ) in Bereg county, Kingdom of Hungary, and studied at the Ungvárer theology school and the University of Budapest. After that he was Greek- Catholic priest and from 1924 papal chamberlain. 1903-1914 he was the editor of the journal Nauka, the only Ukrainian magazine in the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1900 to 1917 he was professor of mathematics at the teacher training college in Ungvár and in 1918 Chairman of the Subkarpatischen National Council, which in 1919 Czechoslovakia asked for confederal port that was completed in the summer of 1919.
1925-1929 Woloschyn was a member of the Ruthenian - National Christian Party in the Czechoslovak parliament. After the autonomy of the Carpathian Ukraine within the Czechoslovak Republic on 11 October 1938 he has served as the leader of the ukrainophiles on October 26, 1938 from the Russophile and became Prime Minister. The land was ukrainisiert, gathered an army of 5000 soldiers. After Hungary 's star Vienna Award annexed the southern part of the Carpathian Ukraine, the capital had to be moved from Uzhhorod after Chust. His fascist party embossed Ukrajinská Národní Jednota scored 1939 92.40 % in elections to Soim on 12 February. Woloschyn was in contact with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and using fascist methods in the struggle against the political opposition.
After the destruction of Czechoslovakia by Hitler in 1939 and he explained the Carpatho-Ukraine on 14 March 1939 and was appointed independently from Soim for president on March 15. However, the Declaration of Independence was only a symbolic gesture towards the Hungarian invasion, only hours before his flight. The independent Carpatho - Ukraine was occupied and annexed already on 16 March 1939 by Hungary.
Woloschyn fled to Romania and Zagreb to Prague, where he lived as a private person in a monastery. When the Soviet army had conquered the territory of the Carpathian Ukraine in March 1945, it was sealed by a contract with the reconstructed Czechoslovakia to Soviet territory, and so Woloschyn was arrested after the liberation of Prague in May 1945 and taken to Moscow, where he died on July 19, 1945 died in Butyrka prison.
Accused by the Communists of collaboration with the Nazis, Woloschyn was stylized at ukrainophiles in the west to the heroes and martyrs for their cause.