Levko Lukianenko
Levko Lukianenko | |
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| Левко Лук'яненко | |
Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada | |
| In office 14 May 1992 – 15 October 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Victor Batiuk |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 14 May 2002 – 15 June 2007 | |
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| In office 15 May 1990 – 12 May 1998 | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 August 1928 Khrypivka, CPSU (1953-1961) |
| Spouse | Nadiia Lukianenko (nèè Buhaievska) |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Occupation | jurist, politician, writer |
| Awards |  |
Levko Hryhorovych Lukianenko[a] (Ukrainian: Левко́ Григо́рович Лук'я́ненко; 24 August 1928 – 7 July 2018) was a Ukrainian politician, Soviet dissident, and Hero of Ukraine.[5] He was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1976 and was elected a leader of the Ukrainian Helsinki Association in 1988.
Lukianenko is the author of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.
Early life and career
Lukianenko was born on 24 August 1928 in the Khrypivka village of Horodnia Raion, Soviet Union.[6] During World War II in 1944, he was recruited in the Soviet Red Army aged 15, as he lied that he had been born in 1927[7]) and served in Austria and then in the Caucasus region (cities Ordzhonikidze and Nakhichevan). In Austria, he observed the arrival of Ukrainian wheat in Baden bei Wien, which reminded him of the removal of grain from Ukraine when he almost starved in the 1930s during the Holodomor.[7] That event made Lukianenko to "follow Severyn Nalyvaiko's path – I would fight for an independent Ukraine."[7]
In 1953, Lukianenko enrolled in the Law Department of Moscow State University and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). (Lukianenko later claimed that he had joined the CPSU only "to do the highest for Ukraine."[7]) In university, Lukianenko later claimed, he was nicknamed khokhol, an ethnic slur against Ukrainians.[7] Soon after he graduated in 1958, Lukianenko was directed as a propagandist to Radekhiv Raion Communist Party committee. Lukianenko claimed that after the 1956 20th Congress, "I stopped pretending I was a party member."[8]
Dissident activity
In 1959, during the
In 1988, Lukianenko was released in the wave of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika. He refused to emigrate as a condition for his release, but he was released anyway in November 1988.[10] In total, he had spent 27 years in prison.[7]
Political career
Lukianenko was elected a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) in March 1990 and became the head of the new Ukrainian Republican Party the following month.[7] He was the co-author of Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine and the author of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, adopted in 1991.[6][7] In the 1991 Ukrainian presidential election, Lukianenko finished third with 4.5% of the vote.[10][7]
From May 1992 to November 1993, Lukianenko was the first
From 1994 to 1998, Lukianenko was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the 68th electoral district, representing the city of Novovolynsk.[4][11]
During the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election, his Ukrainian Republican Party was part (together with the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party[12]) of the Election Bloc "National Front" and he headed the electoral list of the alliance.[11] Since it did not overcome the 4% election barrier, however, he was not elected to the Verkhovna Rada.[11]
Lukianenko was awarded the title
In 2006, Lukianenko was again elected as a member of the Verkhovna Rada. He was elected with the
In 2006 and, after an interval, again in 2010, Lukianenko was elected leader of the
Lukianenko was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (V degree) in 2007.[11]
In 2016, Lukianenko was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize.[15]
Controversial remarks
In 2005, Lukianenko participated in a conference entitled "Zionism as the Biggest Threat to Modern Civilization," which was controversial for its antisemitic tone and his invitation of the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.[16] Lukianenko sat next to Duke and gave him a standing ovation.[17] Presenting his own paper, Lukianenko argued that the Holodomor had been carried out by a Satanic government controlled by the Jews. According to Lukianenko, 95% of Soviet people's commissars most military and judicial commissars, and Lenin and Stalin were Jewish and "thus... of the most important administrative positions... 80% were Jews."[17]
Lukianenko disputed the existence of antisemitism in Ukraine, claiming he had "not met a single Ukrainian who is opposed to all Semitic people."[17][18] According to Lukianenko, Ukrainians base their attitudes of other ethnic groups upon "their attitudes towards us."[17][18]
In a 2008 article for Personal-Plus magazine Lukianenko argued that Ukrainians, as "a white race," should not mix with other races. He suggested that a Ukrainian who wants to marry a person of a different race should leave Ukraine and renounce
Death
Lukianenko died in a
Honours
On 27 October 2022 the
On 22 February 2023 the city council of Dnipro renamed the Vasily Zhukovsky street on Dnipro's Sobornyi District to Levko Lukianenko street.[22]
Personal life
Lukianenko was married to Nadiia Buhaievska (born in 1943[11]); the couple had no children.[7]
See also
Notes
- ^ Also transliterated as Lukyanenko.
References
- ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IV convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the V convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the I convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ a b "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the II convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Presidential decree awarding title Hero of Ukraine, Official Verkhovna Rada website
- ^ UNIAN (7 July 2018)[Levko Lukyanenko died]. Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). 7 July 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
Помер Левко Лук’яненко - ^ Ukrayinska Pravda(7 July 2018)
- ^ a b dissident and Ukrainian politician Levko Lukyanenko dies at 89, Kyiv Post (8 July 2018)
- TIME Magazine, 31 July 1978
- ^ ISBN 0765610272
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Лук'яненко Левко" [Lukianenko, Levko]. LIGA (in Ukrainian). 9 July 2018.
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Українська республіканська партія „Собор“ (tr. "Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor""), Database DATA
- ^ Lukyanenko was elected leader of Ukrainian Republican Party, Kyiv Post (25 November 2010)
- Ukrayinska Pravda(25 November 2010)
- ^ UNIAN(10 July 2018)
- ^ David Duke participates in anti-Semitic conference in the Ukraine Archived 2012-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d Rudling, Per Anders (2006). "Organized Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Ukraine: Structure, Influence and Ideology". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 48 (2): 91.
- ^ a b Levko Lukianenko, "Do Evreis'koho pytannia, abo Chy isnuie v Ukraini anti-Semitism?" Personal Plius 73.26 (2004): 4-5.
- UNIAN(9 July 2018)
- ^ UNIAN(9 July 2018)
- Radio Free Europe(in Ukrainian). 22 February 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ Stas Rudenko (22 February 2023). "Marshal Malinovsky remains: 26 streets were renamed in Dnipro". Informator (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 22 February 2023.
