“Prevent Information About the Famine in Ukraine from Leaking Abroad”
In the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, there are documents which show how in the 1980s the kgb of the Ukrainian ssr had been monitoring very closely the Ukrainian diaspora’s activity aimed at drawing the attention of the world community to the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine and had been trying to prevent it in every possible way. Circulars and instructions from Kyiv to regional kgb departments told what agent-operational measures should be taken “to counter hostile actions by foreign national centers”.
11/23/2024
“To Provoke a Negative Attitude to Ukrainian Emigrants”
Declassified documents from the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine allow us to learn about hitherto unknown dirty methods from the arsenal of the kgb of the ussr, which were once used against Ukrainian emigrants. Among them – provoking unfriendly feelings, negative attitude and enmity towards emigrants in the countries of their compact residence. This is stated in the kgb’s administrative documents, plans, reports, and messages. The ways in which it was done now cause indignation and revulsion.
11/15/2024
Father Vasyl Kushnir. The First President of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee
The abbreviation UCC has always appeared in operational documents of the mgb/kgb of the ussr alongside the phrases “anti-soviet activities”, “Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists”, and “irreconcilable enemies of the soviet union”. Similar epithets and comparisons were used against the activists who created and developed this powerful social and political organization. Among them was Father Vasyl Kushnir, the UCC’s first President and longtime leader (1940-1952, 1957-1971), President of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians (1967-1969, 1973-1978), a religious and public figure who consistently united the Ukrainian diaspora and directed it to support the national liberation movement in the historical homeland and the revival of Ukraine's independence.
11/6/2024
A Knight of Malta – Subject to the nkvd’s operational cultivation
In the 1920s and 1930s, all prominent representatives of the national liberation movement involved in the creation of Ukrainian statehood, who did not stop fighting for the Ukrainian cause even abroad, were subjects to the gpu/nkvd’s operational cultivation. The chekists’ interest in the descendant of an ancient Lithuanian princely family, historian, diplomat, philosopher, and Ukrainian public and political figure Ivan Tokarzhevskyi-Karashevych was no exception. This case also acquired a special color because the person was an Honorary Knight of the Order of Malta.
10/25/2024
Osyp Tiushka. 40 Years With Stepan Bandera
He was one of Stepan Bandera's closest friends. They became friends while studying at Stryi Gymnasium. Together, they were members of the leadership of Plast and the OUN, shared similar ideological beliefs and views on the national liberation movement, were imprisoned in Hitler's Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the same time, jointly developed the structure of the OUN Revolutionary after World War II, and were subjects to the kgb operational cultivations. But the role and place in those kgb plans and activities were different for each of them. Declassified documents from the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine tell us about this.
10/15/2024
“...And You Will Pass On to Future Generations Your Name Shrouded in Immortal Glory”
“The UPA is the armed force of the Ukrainian people. Fighting in the ranks of the UPA is an honorable duty of every citizen of Ukraine”. These phrases are very often found in instructions, orders, proclamations, and leaflets of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which have been preserved in the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. By doing so, the leading figures of the Ukrainian national liberation movement fostered respect for their own army and those who with weapons in his hands stood up to defend their native land from all sorts of invaders. Referring to these documents allows us to understand what gave Ukrainians strength in that difficult struggle against the enemy.
10/1/2024
Volodymyr Kubiyovych. Everything Is at Stake...
The fact that Volodymyr Kubiyovych, a prominent Ukrainian geographer, encyclopedist, and public and political figure, was subject to Yaroslav Halan's scathing, incriminating pamphlets already indicates the nkvd/mgb’s special attention to him as an ardent “Ukrainian bourgeois nationalist”. But not only pamphlets and articles in “Radianska Ukraina”, “Visti z Ukrainy”, and other newspapers were the main tools of soviet special services and communist propaganda against the Ukrainian scholar. The archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine have unique, hitherto unknown documents showing that an agent operation was being prepared in the bowels of the 4th (intelligence and sabotage) Directorate of the nkgb of the ussr, headed by Pavlo Sudoplatov, to eliminate Kubiyovych.
9/24/2024
Unknown Pamphlets by Ivan Bahrianyi
In the materials of the operational cultivation of the famous political activist and writer Ivan Bahrianyi, which are in the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine along with the nkvd/mgb/kgb’s references, agent messages, plans and reports, there are his literary works, which the chekists attached to the case as evidence of his anti-soviet activities. Among other things, of particular interest are some of the author's journalistic articles and pamphlets from thetimes of the Second World War, which have not yet come to the attention of literary critics and researchers of his work.
9/19/2024
Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian politician, one of the ideologists and theorists of the Ukrainian nationalist movement of the 20th century, head of the OUN (b) Provid (1909–1959)
Among the archival documents of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine regarding the figures of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, there are interesting statements, quotations, testimonies, reminiscences about their participation in the struggle for Ukraine’s statehood. Based on these materials, we can trace and assess the role of prominent Ukrainians in the creation of the state, their contribution to Ukraine's independence and struggle for its restoration.
9/11/2024
Andriy Bandera. A Father Punished for His Son
In the case file on Stepan Bandera, which is stored in the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, there are a number of documents relating to his father, Father Andriy. This is a dramatic story of how the chekists switched their hatred for one of the leaders of the Ukrainian liberation movement to his close relatives. At the same time, it is also an example of the strength of the spirit of a person who did not break under the pressure of the totalitarian system, did not give up his ideological beliefs, and did not become an obedient tool of influence, as was planned at the highest level of the nkvd. The documents found in the archives of the Intelligence Service shed light on new, hitherto unknown episodes of this story.
9/5/2024
