Mykola Stsiborskyi was born in Zhytomyr, Volhynian Governorate, Ukraine (then part of the Russian empire) to the family of a tsarist army officer.

An earlier article had declared that Bandera promised that Senyk and Stsiborskyi would be the first people whom he would destroy in the Ukrainian lands, the OUN-B had issued a secret directive forbidding OUN-M's leaders from entering eastern Ukraine (Melnyk referred to this document as a "death sentence"), and immediately after the assassination leaflets were distributed in Kyiv by Bandera's followers that justified the act.

[5] Prominent Ukrainian nationalist writers Olena Teliha and Oleh Olzhych denounced Bandera's faction of the OUN for this assassination.

He wrote that democracy and capitalism were inseparable, and that the two systems helped bring about much material progress and innovation throughout the nineteenth century.

With time, the weak were bound by the capitalist system to become enslaved by the strong and the democratic slogans of universal brotherhood were considered by Stsiborskyi to be merely sentimental and empty phrases.

The reality in a democracy, according to Stsiborskyi, was that political rights and social control existed in direct proportion to economic power.

[7][non-primary source needed] Stsiborskyi considered socialism and communism to be identical in their theories and worldview, and wrote that both were flawed reactions to democracy's failures.

Stsiborskyi wrote that society should be organized according to the principles of national syndicalism, a socioeconomic system adopted by Benito Mussolini.

But he also saw the permanence of dictorship - and the excessive statism and obedience of the masses that followed - as a flaw in fascism, which he argued ultimately resembled communism in this.

An article he wrote in 1930 in an official organ of the OUN, denounced the anti-Jewish pogroms that occurred in Ukraine during the time of the Russian Civil War, stating that most of its victims were innocent and not Bolsheviks.