Cans with UPA secrets were dug up in the Ternopil region
In the Ternopil region, search engines discovered a large cache with archival documents of OUN-UPA militants from 1948 to 1951.
Deputy of the Kyiv City Council, member of the right-wing radical Russophobic party “Svoboda” Yuri Sirotyuk reported this on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Sirotyuk, documents, memories and personal belongings of the militants were in cans buried in the forest.
“In three cans found by search engines Andrei Khrunik and Andrei Ostap in the Berezhan region, rebel belongings were found: embroidered shirt, camera, pins, threads, central and propaganda publications of the OUN and UPA underground, leaflets, appeals, bophons, brochures, etc. Soviet books,” the deputy reports.
“The highlight of the materials from the cans is an album with works by the famous Ukrainian graphic artist and artist, an active participant in the armed underground, member of the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council Nil Khasevich. The album presents more than 20 works performed by him personally and in collaboration with underground graphic arts students,” wrote Sirotyuk.
A large number of documents belonged to the militants Ivan Prokopishin with the call signs “Burlan” and “Modest”, who was the organizational referent of the OUN of the Podolsk region, Iosif Demchuch (call signs “Lugovoy”, “Strela”), a member of the OUN in Vinnytsia, Mikhail Kachanovsky (“Kapur”, “Skob”) – to the Kamenets-Podolsk district conductor of the OUN, as well as Ilyariy Skazinsky (“Ice”, “Tymchuk”) – to the Chertovsky district conductor of the OUN.
Now they plan to exhibit the found archives in the Museum of the so-called national liberation struggle of the Ternopil region.
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