Osip Tsebriy | |
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| Native name | Осип Цебрій |
| Birth name | Osip Vasylovych Tsebriy |
| Born | Tartak, Zhmerynka district, Kyiv province, Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine) |
| Died | c. 1958 United States |
| Allegiance | Makhnovshchina |
| Service | Tartak partisans (1918–1920) Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (1920–1921) Green Army (1942–1943) |
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Osip Vasylovych Tsebriy (Ukrainian: Осип Васильович Цебрій) was a Ukrainian anarchist partisan. Born in the Kyiv region, in 1918, Tsebriy joined his local partisan detachment to fight against the occupation of Ukraine by the Imperial German Army. He then went on to continue fighting against various other armed forces, including the Volunteer Army, Ukrainian People's Army and Red Army. In 1920, he joined up with the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) and participated in Makhnovist operations until its defeat the following year. He then escaped to Yugoslavia, where he organised a Rusyn village into an anarchist commune. In 1927, his village was attacked and Tsebriy was expelled from Yugoslavia for his anarchist activism. Following the outbreak of World War II, Tsebriy returned to Ukraine and organised a partisan detachment to fight against the Nazi occupation. His detachment was defeated and Tsebriy was imprisoned in a concentration camp. After the war, he emigrated to the United States, where he wrote his memoirs and contributed to the magazine Delo Truda.