CHRONICLE OF COMBAT ACTIONS BY UKRAINIAN INSURGENT ARMY/SOVIET TERROR IN UKRAINE

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• Publication Date: July 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
.,:copNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Chr.f ole of Cat Actions by Ukrainian
I:usurgent Army/ Soviet Terror in Ukraine
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DATE OF INFORMATION
REPORT NO.
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1. During the immediate postwar period (1945-48), the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
(URA) operated in large group . In recent years, its operations are'eca-
ducted. by small, highly mobile and efficient unit e0 These units undertake:
(S) offensive ttacks to protect the population against pillage, terror, exploi-
tationl,,forcible deportation into Siberia and Turkestan, the enforied
cOl-
1etivtzatioi the farce-like Soviet "elections"; the forcible imPOSitiOn of th
iSoviet Russian Communist , ideology on the Ukrainian people; the liquidatkon
of the Ukrainian Catholic Church; the compuls ry recruitment of Ukrainian
,:voath-into the'SovietArmytc.
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(b) defensive operations during enemy soviet security forcesg raids on1UPA
1116tealations.
2. The main target,. of the UPA are not so much establishments, units, or members
of the Soviet Army' as the apparatus of oppression, especially the MVD and MGB.
URA policy =Aare believe that the Soviet Army is made up of many nationalfties
of the USSR whose members were forcibly Mobilized, and that this army is in
no measure re ).msible for the policy of pillage, oppression, and. persecOion
conducted by the Soviet Government.
Many f the operati ns of the UP,A are li ted in The Hure u of Information of
the Supreme Ukrainian Liberation Council which appear monthly in Ukraine.
Becao,e of underground conditions, thee rePorts are of necessity delayed. -
e issue, No 6 (1950) f this publication, Tepco?ts a erie of bloody opera-
tiO4 which took place in 1949 and early 1950. Here are some themm
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(a) On;e2t?Feb, 50, it .the town of Lashky, near Khodoriv, Western Ukraine,'
a UPA unit waged a ounces rul fight against a eize ble force of MGB troops,
resulting in the killing of a Russian lieutenant and a sergeant (Prudnikov
and Kashtanov).
(b) O 1 l,,ta*---;vilge: of Stavyschany? County of Bilohiria,
Kamianet -Podilsky? Ukrainian in urgents attacked the vine& council and
executed its head, MVD spy who terrorized the population.
On 19 Feb :59, the Ansurgents dl armed a unit of MVD (istrebitel)
troops near the village of Teremne, Rivne District, VolhYnia, 44a-eke:anted
its commandant, Major Bakbmatov? for the atrocities he perpetrated on the
local population.
(d) Gis,04?4414alps504,, the UPA attacked the headquarters f the MVD in the town
of Platyhory? County of Zdoibuniv? Voihynia, killing its chief, 10kolayenko?
known for his brutalitie with respect to the Ukrainian pesple, All the
secret archive and the re tricted maps of the NND showing .4. ition of the
MVD troops in Western Ukraine were taken away by the insurgents.
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(e) Onee446,4004:1449114, *he village of StriikY9 Drohobyth District, e UPA -
ambushed a staff of high MVD officers who bad come from Kiev n an inepeca
tion tour, ey were escorted by a force of 100 MVD troop in several care,
When the convoy entered a narr v road in the woods, the UPA opened fire with
heavy machine guns, killing all four MVD officers and many ther f the '
escort party. The UPA unit, commanded by Lt. Orikh? 'withdrew without the
los of a single
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'YYMI"TrInirt6 49, a strong detachment of the UFA under the -
command of Capt Knmara raided Rumanian territory with the purpose of infornie
ing the Rumanian people of the underground activities of the Ukrainian In.
surgent Amour, spreading anti-Soviet literature, and effecting liaison with -
the Rumanian anti-Soviet underground. The insurgents crossed the Ukrainian'
Rumanian border between the citie of Vishev and Sighet, waging a four-hour
battle with MVD troops they did 0. Before substantial reinf.rceMents-
could arrive, the UPA tr s were well in Rumania. There they were vele
coned and upplied with food and informati n by the Rumanian peOple. The
puppet Rumanian government sent forth a few battalions of it security
troops, but this action fruitless.
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(g) In August 1950? the UPA raided several localities in the di tricts of Vinn-
itsia and Zhytomir? trying to prevent the Soviet uthorities and the Communist
Party officials from merging the collective farms in * "communal towns". The
Soviet radio reported that "bandit inimical * the Soviet state raided cap.
lective farms, looted the tate supply :tores, and inti ted the population
against the merging of collective farms". Only upon bringing large forc!
of security troops was "peace re tored".
(h)10nIfelO*Sepwalltq the UPA raided the MVD headquarters in the city
of Mukachiv, Carpatho-Ukraine and kidnapped Major Uralov and his as istant
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Capt GovdkLv? later executing them for crime committed against the Ukrainian
people".
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4. To indicate Ihe-extentleffSoei
some facts for the year 1947:
reagainat4 theUkrainian, popniatitlii,7
(a) In 12 counties of the District of Lviv, the Soviets arrested 3,479 Ukrainian
men, women and children;
(b) Killed 1,817 (among them 120 old men, 99 women and 68 children);
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) Sent to SiberiT, 2123 (1,522 adults and 601 children);.
(d) Deported to Donbas 649 persons;
(e) Burned down 2706 homesteads;
(f) Pillaged and looted 2p6,0 homesteads;
(g) Destroyed 4o Ukrainian C tholic Churches.
(h) During large-scale deportation in 1947 the Soviets deported some 150,000
Ukrainians to Kazakhstan and Siberia.
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