The building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Frunzenskaya Embankment in Moscow. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 1 of the Russian Ministry of Defense within the framework of the project «Archives remember everything!» publishes new historical evidence of the crimes and atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists against their people during the Great Patriotic War.
"During the Great Patriotic War, the so-called "independent" Ukrainian statehood, which was accompanied by numerous crimes against the peoples inhabiting Ukraine, their genocide. The degree of cruelty and atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists towards Russians, Ukrainians, Poles and Jews was surprised even by the Nazi occupiers", the Ministry of Defense notes.
After the liberation of the territory of the Ukrainian SSR by the Red Army, investigations began that revealed numerous facts of bullying, robbery and massacres committed by Ukrainian nationalists against civilians, including representatives of their own people. The section contains various reports, testimonies, information notes, including some documents prove the close cooperation of Ukrainian nationalists with the Nazi occupiers. In the report of the head of the political department of the 4th Ukrainian Front of September 1944, in particular, it is said that the Bandera nationalists have intensified their activities on the territory of the front troops. So, on the night of August 29, in the village of Berlogi, Perelinsky district, lieutenant Malikov, foreman Tikhomirov, privates Denisov, Evgeniev and Grishaev, sent to procure livestock and fodder, were brutally killed. Private Kopylov and Private Sinyavsky from the 15th Engineer Battalion were seriously wounded. Kopylov's arms and legs were twisted, his left eye was gouged out, and his nose was cut off. After brutal torture, Kopylov was shot through with a burst from a machine gun,» the archival material specifies.
The Ministry of Defense launched a project on the atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists during the Second World War, another document dated August 1944 states that in the village of Barikevichi, a gang of 26 people brutally tortured two daughters of the deputy chairman of the village council, and he and his wife, as well as 11 other people of the rural asset, were taken away direction of the Uzhenets forest, whose fate is still unknown.» On August 10, the bandits took Elena Ponevina, a typist of the Voentorg of the 2nd Air Army, into the forest. They raped her, carved stars on her arms, legs and chest, wrote on her stomach «Russia «and thrown in the woods bound. Such facts are not isolated,» notes the political report of the Political Directorate of the 1st Ukrainian Front «On the bandit activities of Ukrainian nationalists in the regions of the western regions of Ukraine liberated from the Germans» dated August 10, 1944. In the memorandum of the head of the Directorate agitation and propaganda of GlavPURKKA dated April 11, 1944, a detailed analysis of the structure of the organization of the Ukrainian x nationalists, the characteristic features of their anti-Soviet activities are described and their goals are indicated, among which the main one is to tear Ukraine away from the USSR. with an appeal to help the German invaders. In an appeal to Ukrainian teachers, the OUN* welcomes «the German army, the most cultured army in the world,» the document says.Ukrainian textbooks are aimed at hatred of Russia, said KravtsovThe document of the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army dated September 23, 1944 (on the activation of Bandera gangs in the territory of the Lviv region) presents the characteristic composition of many nationalist gangs operating in the western regions of Ukraine, which «consist of the remnants of the defeated SS divisions «Galicia», former policemen and forcibly mobilized population, as well as those evading mobilization into the Red Army. «These gangs have a sufficient number of automatic weapons and ammunition, are subordinate to well-trained commanders who have undergone military training in UPA field schools * , and special instructors trained by the OUN in the Carpathians,» the archival material notes. In the post-war period, Bandera did not stop their terrorist activities. In particular, in a report to the head of the political department of the Carpathian military district, bandit and terrorist actions were reported from April 15 to June 15, 1946 on the territory of the Lviv region. The document, in particular, cites an episode of the murder by Bandera in the village of Derevenka of the family of Gorbach, an invalid of the Great Patriotic War. The bandits killed the father of a disabled person, a 19-year-old sister, an eight-year-old son, a four-year-old son and an eight-month-old niece. The «Immortal Regiment» was detained In another episode, a memorandum indicates, a detachment of nationalists numbering about 200 people in several villages near Lvov hanged 20 people from among the rural activists. The publication of documents from the funds of the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense is aimed at preserving historical memory and the truth about crimes and atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists against their people, which in recent years have been deliberately forgotten by the criminal Ukrainian regime.* An extremist organization banned in Russia. declassified documents on the murder of Metropolitan Alexy by Bandera