Wasyl Didiuk

Wasyl Didiuk or Vasyl Didiuk (; 8 February 1915 – 15 September 2003) was a Ukrainian public and political figure, journalist, writer, humorist, satirist, and editor.

Biography Vasyl Didiuk was born on 8 February 1915 in the village of Kryvoluka, now the Bilobozhnytsia Hromada in the Chortkiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine.

He sang and conducted with the Choir. He was active in organizing and directing church and secular choirs. During the German occupation, he was imprisoned in Chortkiv prison for 14 months (from October 1941), from which he escaped. Then he worked in the department of propaganda and political education of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, was the editor of the newspaper Upivski Visti and others. the Union of Ukrainian Youth, the League of Ukrainian Political Prisoners, Chair of the Toronto Association of Ukrainian Educators, Secretary of the Association of Ukrainian Cultural Figures, Secretary General of the Ukrainian Liberation League, Secretary General of the World Ukrainian Liberation Front, President of the World Federation of Ukrainian Journalists.

From 1991 he came to Ukraine, in particular to Ternopil Oblast. Together with his wife, Lina Vavryk, he was buried at St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery in Oakville, Canada. He was a co-editor of the newspaper "Homin Ukrainy", and from 1965 he contributed to the American newspaper "Svoboda".

Awards (1983); medals of the UPA marching groups and the Ontario government; Cross of Merit of the Free Cossacks; Certificates of Honor from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the Ukrainian Liberation League, and the Ukrainian Catholic Brotherhood of Canada; Certificate of Honor and Jubilee Medal on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Ternopil; Letter of Blessing from Pope John Paul II (1990); Journalist of the Year (Ukrainian Canadian Congress, 1992).