World War II Ended 76 Years Ago

9/2/2021

September 2, 1945 saw the end of World War II. The deadliest military conflict, the most horrific crimes against humanity and the largest number of casualties.

For Ukraine, World War II also began in 1939 and turned into a real national tragedy, killing about 10 million Ukrainians - those killed on the battlefields, in concentration camps, from bombing, starvation or punitive actions.

More than seven million our compatriots fought in the ranks of the anti-Hitler coalition, making a huge contribution to the victory over Nazism. It was the Ukrainians who raised the victorious flags over Iwo Jima and the Reichstag and signed the Act of Surrender of Japan aboard the American battleship Missouri.

Eternal memory to the victims of the war and glory to its heroes!

UNVEILED HISTORY

How the KGB Tried to Turn Ivan Bahrianyi into Ivan “Red”

In the archival funds of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, documents were found that shed light on how, in the 1950s and 1960s, the mgb/kgb of the ussr tried to persuade Ukrainian cultural, scientific and literary figures in exile to cooperate, abandon anti-soviet activities, and return to the soviet union and in case of failure, measures were developed to compromise or even liquidate them. One of the objects of such operational cultivation was the famous political figure and writer Ivan Bahrianyi (bahrianyi in Ukrainian means purple- Transl.).

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ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS

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

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

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