Those “tasks” were the state-sponsored assassinations of Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera, two exiled leaders of the Ukrainian anti-communist movement who had been living in Munich. Stashinsky, ... In ...

Oddly enough, Stashinsky had to prove in court that he’d actually killed Bandera, as well as dissident journalist Lev Rebet, a leader of Ukrainian emigres in Munich.

The Kremlin has never been afraid to assassinate its political opponents. In 1940, a Soviet agent murdered Leon Trotsky with an ice pick in Mexico City. In the 1950s, KGB agents poisoned the Ukrainian ...