The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine presents the collection &ldquo;Ukrainian Emigration of the 1940s-1970s in archival documents of soviet special services&rdquo;, prepared by the Branch State Archive of the FISU.

The activities of soviet repressive bodies have not yet been&nbsp; studied deeply enough. For a long time, this topic was closed, and the archives of the cheka/gpu/nkvd/mgb/kgb of the ussr were not accessible to scholars, journalists, or anyone interested in the history of Ukraine.

As a result of the review, declassification, and study of archival files, this thematic publication includes selected materials that testify to the purposeful work of the cheka/gpu/nkvd/mgb/kgb to monitor Ukrainian emigrants, politicians, scientists, and cultural figures, their relatives and friends abroad, collect information about their places of residence, movements, plan and conduct special operations to compromise them.

For the first time, the collection introduces into scientific circulation the archival documents of great interest that help to open new pages of Ukraine&rsquo;s history. This publication includes mostly individual documents, reports, and memos of the soviet intelligence.

A total of 143 documents are published in chronological order. Each document has a title and relevant search information, which includes the number of the fund, case, volume, and paper of the Branch State Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

<a href="https://archive.szru.gov.ua/public/archive/530df7b5-db15-4883-84b3-8f6051a236a4">P. 1</a>

<a href="https://archive.szru.gov.ua/public/archive/49294c9e-eb24-4d3b-ae59-a8a87f9278cc">P. 2</a>

<a href="https://archive.szru.gov.ua/public/archive/79a6e687-4b6d-4907-be5d-a2a04be1483a">P. 3</a>

The Collection “Ukrainian Emigration of the 1940s-1970s in archival documents of soviet special services” Has Been Published

As a result of the review, declassification, and study of archival files, this thematic publication includes selected materials that testify to the purposeful work of the cheka/gpu/nkvd/mgb/kgb to monitor Ukrainian emigrants, politicians, scientists, and cultural figures, their relatives and friends abroad, collect information about their places of residence, movements, plan and conduct special operations to compromise them.

Branch State Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service (hereinafter referred to as the BSA of the SZRU) purposefully and systematically searches, declassifies and studies documentary materials of historical value in the funds, and subsequently publishes them on the website of the SZRU for everyone to read.

Some materials on the work of the ogpu/nkvd/mgb/kgb of the ussr in spying on Ukrainian church figures, their communities and believers abroad, collecting information about their places of residence, movement, preferences, holding various events, as well as planning special operations to compromise them have been selected for the next thematic collection.

For the most part, this publication includes individual information, reports, and memoranda of the ussr state security services, which, on the basis of operational information, constantly prepared generalized reviews of the situation in the Ukrainian religious environment abroad. First of all, of interest is the information about Ukrainian religious communities in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany, Austria, France, the USA, Canada, as well as information about the composition of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and other denominations, their place and role in the life of Ukrainian emigration. The collection contains documents on the activities of leaders of religious communities and individual church figures, their biographical information. At different times, chekists opened cases against them, established constant surveillance and control, and collected information about their religious and political activities.

Of particular interest are the documents on how soviet special services were actively engaged in the destruction of Ukrainian Orthodoxy not only on the territory of the ussr, but also abroad. These are the measures of the mgb/kgb directed against the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and their clergymen, who were prominent representatives of the national liberation movement.

After the Second World War, when the UAOC and the UGCC were liquidated by the stalinist regime, the mgb of the ukrainian ssr actively opened separate intelligence and surveillance cases against Ukrainian activists and church organizations that operated underground, as well as against those who emigrated abroad and continued to build the Ukrainian church there and fight for the restoration of Ukrainian statehood.

In total, 86 documents are chronologically included in the collection. Each document has a title and the numbers of the fund, the case, the volume and the page of the BSA of the SZRU.

The declassified documents are further evidence of how the kremlin leadership and its subordinate state security services interfered in the activities of the Ukrainian church in the diaspora, trying to discredit and distort not only the Ukrainian church, but the entire Ukrainian national liberation movement.

<a href="/static/download/archive/avtokefalna i grekokatolucka cerkva za kordonom 2023-1.pdf">Archival Documents of the &nbsp;Intelligence on the Ukrainian Autocephalous &nbsp;and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Churches&#39; Activities &nbsp;Abroad. P. 1</a>

<a href="/static/download/archive/avtokefalna i grekokatolucka cerkva za kordonom 2023-2.pdf">Archival Documents of the &nbsp;Intelligence on the Ukrainian Autocephalous &nbsp;and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Churches&#39; Activities &nbsp;Abroad. P. 2</a>

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Archival Documents of the  Intelligence on the Ukrainian Autocephalous  and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Churches' Activities  Abroad 

Some materials on the work of the ogpu/nkvd/mgb/kgb of the ussr in spying on Ukrainian church figures, their communities and believers abroad, collecting information about their places of residence, movement, preferences, holding various events, as well as planning special operations to compromise them have been selected for the next thematic collection.

The Branch State Archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (BSA of the SZRU) within the framework of the search in the funds for materials of historical value, identified a number of documents relating to the assassination of leaders of the Ukrainian national liberation movement Symon Petliura, Yevhen Konovalets, Lev Rebet, Stepan Bandera and others. Thanks to the looking through, declassification, study of archival files, some materials were chosen that testify to the purposeful work of the ogpu-nkvd-mgb-kgb of the ussr to monitor Ukrainian figures abroad, collect information about their places of residence, movement, preferences, daily routine, etc. and plan special operations to compromise and liquidate them. At the same time, taking into consideration the fact that such operations were often developed in moscow, information about the organizers, performers, specific plans, forces and means was accumulated and stored in the central office of Soviet special services. Therefore, the most important documents that would testify to the preparation of those operations, granting permits for their conduct, the course of events, etc., are stored in the archives of the current special services of the russian federation. The documents stored in the BSA of the SZRU, although they do not contain a complete picture of individual operations, still make it possible to see how they took place, to understand why the kremlin was so much afraid of the leaders of the liberation movement for the independence of Ukraine and tried in every way to liquidate them.

The documents contained in the collection make it possible to significantly supplement the history of attempts and murders of Ukrainian figures abroad, to reveal the mechanisms of activity of the soviet special services aimed at destroying the national liberation movement for freedom and independence of Ukraine and to re-evaluate the events of that time from the point of view of today.

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Documents of the gpu-nkvd-mgb-kgb of the ukrainian ssr Regarding the Liquidation of Prominent Figures of the Ukrainian National Liberation Movement

The Branch State Archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (BSA of the SZRU) within the framework of the search in the funds for materials of historical value, identified a number of documents relating to the assassination of leaders of the Ukrainian national liberation movement Symon Petliura, Yevhen Konovalets, Lev Rebet, Stepan Bandera and others. 

ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS

The Collection “Ukrainian Emigration of the 1940s-1970s in archival documents of soviet special services” Has Been Published

10/28/2024

Archival Documents of the Intelligence on the Ukrainian Autocephalous and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Churches' Activities Abroad

11/9/2023

Documents of the gpu-nkvd-mgb-kgb of the ukrainian ssr Regarding the Liquidation of Prominent Figures of the Ukrainian National Liberation Movement

3/31/2023