Ivan Maistrenko, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ivan Maistrenko

Ukrainian revolutionary

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1899

Date of Death: 18-Nov-1984

Profession: politician, journalist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ivan Maistrenko (1899–1984) was a Ukrainian revolutionary.
He became a communist partisan during the Ukrainian Civil War of 1918–1920.
He became a journalist and by 1921 was deputy director of the All-Ukrainian Communist Institute of Journalism.
As an opponent of Joseph Stalin he was arrested but survived the gulag becoming a post-war refugee in West Germany.
During the Nazi Germany occupation, in 1942 Maisternko was a director of Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus in Kiev. He was a prominent member of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party and edited their anti-Stalinist workers paper Vpered.
He also wrote a book Borotbism about the movement of that name.