RESISTANCE IN THE UKRAINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006500810008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 11, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION R[ "
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Rspionage Lawb, Title
18. U.SC Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Ukrainian SSR)
SUBJECT Resistance in the Ukraine
DATE OF INFO.
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REPORT
REFERENCES
11 ::a;v 1955
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
Comments:
1? On page 1, paragraph 2, read Kamenets-Podolskjy for Kamenets-Podolska
and Drogobych for Drohobycz.
2e On page 1, paragraph 3, read Raykom for mom.
3e On page 2, paragraph 3, read Chernovtsy for Czernowice.
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Political.
Resistance in the Ukraine
Z. There was considerable partisan and bandit activity in
both Western and I9astern Ukraine imaediately after the Soviet
re'oooupation of the Ukraine. The wain areas in which partisans
rs active were the LVOV oblast, r;u .yt;;~'r8?pC ~(7y8Ir,A , ;1RtOHOBYQZ
VOLYN areas. i)aC1iOi3YC3 area, wad always considered the
*bftt area.
Extensive repressive laeusuveH unu Pu riejerls were otirried out
by M troops
L In thiu
notion, an area of v1l'la ee neexr 3.tl:JY wet& surroun~leci iit night
and the inhabitants collected and seat off to Jl tI.i.
by the end of 19119, the situation wua
broug more or Leos under coietvol and ,'urtiuuu u;;tivity W4s
less widespread. UI.l 1949, u uiviuion of ..VJ troops MAIN
stationed LVOV and a reLi ant in :i+`,4'I dA.AV. Iu 1949, these
troops were reorganised anu ruduued.
Various incidents after 1919 imiioate(l the our, ed par-
tisan activity, and in 1954', ,genera
uj,)iuion was that there were 013-14 ,cur ewuu a uu but
they
h.-,v been driven further and further into hiding. The tOHOBY'QS
u?aa was still considered the main area of resistance.
S.
wsti4ts
surly 19471
19471
19491
1949:
incidents of partisan
At 'the same time as the UVD were putting up
notices offering pardons to partisans who
surrendered, the partisans had a leaflet cam-
paign in the city of LVOV.
Me Professora and twenty teachers from the
University La LVCV and various schools were
tried for Vropa,jatinj, nationalist ideas among
students.
Suliamr: a .Wt-i,.ot., 3eoretury x,L:141~
w..a ?il4bd in the .kLCJt
area w en -la 0-u I. ~Vll, ulown u,) uy ,,artIfolne
Su1:Wk3r; u tL'uiu oaVi?yikkl; ti.166.MU u6'L ieers
Was wreoke-, us.t?wuun LVCV uuu ,'Li ,ITC ~(I+ r'. 'of
VVVV) u,," ./?t.l a:.ti9. rN?.r e,uneraJ ule~. HULA
forty .filled ware bl.r?1cd
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