Life in Emigration
In 1920 he moved to Vienna. While there, he edited the journal "Ukraina" but adopted a pro-Polish orientation that discredited him in the eyes of much of the Ukrainian émigré community. In the 1930s he became close to a circle of Russian émigrés but at the end of that decade returned to the Ukrainian community, where he tried in vain to create an organization of "Ukrainian cossacks." Arrested by the Soviet occupation authorities in 1948, he was exiled to Siberia before being released in 1956, whereupon he returned to Vienna.
Currently a street in Lviv is named after Hrekov.
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