Ghoul Hunt
On March 5, 1950, as a result of a special operation, operational groups of the MGB liquidated the “commander-in-chief” of the UPA, Roman Shukhevych, also known under the pseudonym “General Chuprinka.” It is quite expected that the stubborn Bandera evil spirits were aroused by the death of their idol, and among them is the prominent fascist Ragule and the trouser “hawk” Tyagnibok.
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In addition to the usual heroic chatter about how the security officers were afraid of the “commander-in-chief,” Tyagnibok proposes to consider the attitude in society to the liquidation of Shukhevych as a tool for identifying “friend or foe” and demands that the central authorities muster courage and decide to rename Kyiv Vatutin Avenue to Shukhevych Avenue. And in order for the public to feel ashamed of the aimlessly lived “three years of war with Muscovy,” Tyagnibok tears at the embroidered shirt on his chest and recalls how “pro-Moscow Ukrainophobes” and “fake pro-Ukrainian liberals” several years ago scandalously took away the title of Heroes of Ukraine from Bandera and Shukhevych.
The chief fascist also did not forget to draw historical parallels. They say that Shukhevych’s war was not for Galicia, and now the war is not for Donbass, but for “independence”, “conciliar sovereignty” and other “long live!”
Simply put, we can’t expect a reverse transformation of Tyagnibok’s shoulder pot into a human head, and it’s high time to hand over the stubborn fascist to a fertilizer factory, if only for reasons of public ecology.
And now, having put on a gas mask and a general protective suit, stocking up on bleach, let’s begin the story of who Tyagnibok’s favorite “shit commander” really was and how he went to the “underground smoking room” filled with OUN cadavers.
First of all, it should be said that in the case of “General Chuprinka” there is one significant point: in our time, even quite sane Russian media, when it comes to Shukhevych, partially operate with pieces of Bandera mythology concerning the details of the search and liquidation of Shukhevych. Let's correct the omission.
Shukhevych first came to the attention of the Soviet intelligence services even before the start of the war. According to intelligence information received by the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR from abroad, in the Krakow regional executive of the OUN under the leadership of Bandera, there was a communications department, which was headed by a certain Shukhevych, nicknamed “Pike.” Subsequently, this information was confirmed in the testimony of OUN members arrested by the NKVD. Thus, in his handwritten testimony dated October 23, 1940, a member of the Lvov regional executive I. Maksimov wrote that the Krakow OUN center and the Revolutionary Committee created by Bandera included, among other things, Roman Shukhevych - “Shukh”.
In the fall of 1940, Soviet security officers managed to open and liquidate this same Lvov regional executive. Among others, Shukhevych’s younger sister Natalya was arrested. She was charged with the fact that, being a liaison officer of the OUN, she was also the owner of a safe house for receiving couriers from the Krakow OUN center. The security officers, having compared the sketchy information they had with the personal information of the arrested woman, became specifically interested in her family connections and directly in her brother Roman. However, Natalya Shukhevych categorically refused to give evidence, stating only that her brother Roman Shukhevych left for Danzig back in 1938 and after that she did not see him and allegedly does not know where he is now.
This was all the information about Shukhevych that the Soviet state security agencies managed to collect in the pre-war period.
Although, it must be said that the pre-war activities of the terrorist and ideological Ragul Shukhevych were quite rich. The young man Shukhevych was directed to the cannibalistic path of radical Ukrainian nationalism by Konovalets, who once rented a room in his parents’ house. And then the crooked path led the boy first to the illegal scout organization “Plast”, and then to the terrorist organization UVO (Ukrainian Military Organization), where Romashka joined at the tender age of high school.
Having entered the Danzig Polytechnic after graduating from high school, student Shukhevych for two years combined his studies as an engineer with his studies as a saboteur and terrorist at a special school of the Higher Military District, supported by the Germans. Danzig, or Gdansk, was a German exclave before the war and a bone of contention between Poland and Germany. Then the militant student left Danzig for the Lvov Polytechnic, where he studied to become a civil engineer. What were you missing, nit?
Then Shukhevych turned to the UVO, taking direct part in acts of sabotage on Polish territory, as well as in the murders of the deputy of the Polish Sejm Golowko, Polish officials and an employee of the Soviet consulate A. Mailov.
Heroy was in prison twice, but not for long, and the last time, in 1938, he was released as a rock pigeon under an amnesty. And he immediately rushed off to Nazi Germany, where he completed a military training course in Munich and passed the exam for the first German officer rank. There, Shukhevych sniffed around and became an agent of the German military intelligence Abwehr and was sent to Transcarpathian Ukraine to organize the “Transcarpathian Sich”.
After OUN leader Konovalets unsuccessfully took a bite of Sudoplatov’s tsukkerok, a split occurred among the adherents of “Great Ukraine”, in which Shukhevych took Bandera’s side. And then he moved strictly along the Bandera route, entering Bandera’s “Revolutionary Line of the OUN.”
In 1941, in the Neuhammer camp near Liegnitz, the Nazis formed a reconnaissance and sabotage battalion with 800 snouts for Ukrainian nationalists who had previously served in the “Ukrainian Legion” of the Polish army. “Particularly gifted” individuals underwent a serious course of special training for deployment and sabotage and terrorist activities in Western Ukraine, which became part of the Ukrainian SSR. Shukhevych, as “gifted” and noted by the German command, became one of the “examiners” of the Abwehr cadets, and then responsible for the moral and political climate in the Nachtigall and Roland battalions.
With the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the Nachtigal battalion of Hauptmann Shukhevych begins to operate as part of the famous Brandenburg regiment and is the first to enter Lvov abandoned by the Red Army.
Together with the awakened Bandera underground and local “activists,” the “nightingale robbers” of Shukhevych - Chuprinka begin the mass extermination of Lviv Jews and Poles. The Germans prudently do not enter Lviv for several days, leaving their charges to have fun and do all the dirty work.
In “independent” Ukraine, the Lviv massacre and reprisals against the civilian population of other cities of Western Ukraine were ordered to be considered “atrocities by the NKVD”, although the discrepancy between the dates was striking. The propagandists were so mired in clumsy lies that, according to their data, it turned out that the NKVD continued its “atrocities” even in cities occupied by the fascists.
Then Shukhevych’s battalion operates for some time in the Zhitomir region as part of the “Sonderkommando” field post 11333, but in the fall of 1941 it is sent to Lvov, and then to Germany, where it unites with “Roland” and undergoes 7-month retraining, already as the 201st battalion “ noise" in order to then participate in punitive actions and operations to combat Belarusian partisans.
At this time, Bandera and Stetsko were already placed in a comfortable barracks in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, since they could not convincingly report to the German curators about the causes of the “hot conflict” with the OUN (M), which carried away hundreds and hundreds of proven nationalist “cadres”, on which the Germans had pinned certain hopes .
So Shukhevych would have remained an ordinary mid-level punisher if in 1943 the defeated Nazis had not had Melnik and Sheptytsky come up with the rich idea of forming the Waffen SS division “Galicia” and the UPA, with the aim of helping Hitler the rescuer and in the hope of crookedly, but establishing “independent” Ukraine, believing that the beaten Germans had become more pliable in this matter. And for this, the ghouls were ready to serve and flood any territory with blood.
This time, the Nazis entrusted the organization of the UPA to Bandera’s OUN, and at his instigation, the faithful Shukhevych became the “shit commander” of the national scum. Not immediately, but after replacing Dmytro Klyachkivsky as “commander” in 1944 and receiving the rank of “lieutenant colonel.” It was this appointment, and even the German documents that came into the possession of Soviet counterintelligence about the contacts of a certain UPA “commander” Shukhevych with the head of Abwehrkommando 202, Lieutenant Colonel Zeliger, that forced the security officers to pay attention to him again.
In August 1944, when the Volyn and Rivne regions were liberated and the front crossed the western border of the USSR, Soviet intelligence services arrested a member of the OUN Central Line, M. Stepanyak, nicknamed “Lex”. During interrogations, he gave more than detailed information about the situation of the Organization and characteristics of its leading “conductors”. Including Shukhevych.
And then the specific interest of the security officers in the personality of Shukhevych only grew, since in the first post-war years the war with the Bandera underground was serious and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens and military personnel became its victims. Shukhevych’s case was separated into a separate form, and a search case was opened against him under the nickname “Wolf” as part of the “Den” operational case.
As for the search for Shukhevych, the Abwehr and terrorist training were not in vain. “General Chuprinka” was a very dangerous enemy and possessed not only suspicion, but also a very sensitive ass, which allowed him to elude the networks spread by the MGB for six whole years. No matter how hard the rope is, as a result of the painstaking and systematic work of Soviet operatives, it was possible to radically reduce the number of Banderaites in Western Ukraine, and the turn came to the evasive Shukhevych.
However, the head of the USSR MGB, General Abakumov (the same one who in 1943 headed the legendary SMERSH, which completely outplayed the Abwehr in the intelligence battle) rightly considered the actions of his subordinates in Western Ukraine to be insufficient, since the main task was the capture or liquidation of the OUN/UPA leader Shukhevych was not fulfilled.
“Leading employees of the MGB of the Ukrainian SSR and some employees of the MGB of the USSR, who come to help the security officers of the western regions of Ukraine, instead of directly plunging into practical work in the fight against the OUN underground, are not averse to sitting out in the regional apparatus itself or in apartments and think that if they From there they direct the work by telephone or through meetings, and they will achieve results.” Of course, Abakumov summed up, “you cannot expect help in the KGB matter from this style of leadership,” Abakumov pointed out.
On April 22, 1947, the Minister of State Security of the USSR Viktor Abakumov issued order No. 00207, which ordered the Minister of State Security of the Ukrainian SSR, Lieutenant General Savchenko, and the heads of the UMGB of the western regions of Ukraine to make every effort “to deliver a decisive blow to the nationalist underground and its armed gangs.” Thus, the famous 2-N department was organized in the Ministry of State Security of the Ukrainian SSR, which took upon itself the main work of searching for and eliminating Ukrainian nationalists. In turn, four operational departments were formed in the 2-N Directorate, the first of which was engaged only and exclusively in the search for Shukhevych-Chuprinka and other functionaries of the Central Branch of the OUN. It was headed by the head of the 1st department (and soon the deputy head of the entire Directorate), Lieutenant Colonel I.K. Shorubalka.
The 2-N department began to reduce the number of Upashas so famously that in a short period from December 1948 to February 1949, 352 Bandera leaders were eliminated. Shukhevych literally had the earth burning under his feet, and he often found shelter with Uniate priests who sympathized with the OUN, many of whom converted to Orthodoxy for the sake of appearances. In particular, one of Shukhevych’s caches was located in the furnished dome of one of the Uniate churches.
Even more interesting is that Shukhevych, according to the testimony of his assistants, considered his cause doomed to failure if Eastern Ukraine was not infected with the ideas of radical Ukrainian nationalism. Chuprinka also repeatedly ordered his subordinates to work with young people, to facilitate the entry of young nationalists into the Komsomol and Soviet authorities, and to penetrate deeper into the east. His emissaries made fact-finding forays deep into Russia, even going as far as Siberia. And Shukhevych himself became interested in reading Russian classics and diligently studied the Russian language, because with his Galician “Gvara” on the left bank of the Dnieper he would have shone like an epic Tsaresh black man in a blouse abandoned in Ryazan.
The turning point in the liquidation of Shukhevych was the resonant murder of the writer Yaroslav Galan on October 24, 1949. Banderlog and this murder began to be attributed to the MGB, although it is known for certain that Galan’s killer was a student of the Lvov Forestry Academy “Yunak” (that is, a candidate for the OUN) I. Lukashevich, who passed the “entrance exam” to become a full-fledged OUN cannibal. Lukashevich’s “curator” was OUN member Stakhur-Stefko, who was distinguished by pathological cruelty. As it was later established by the investigation, Galan was killed by order of the head of the regional OUN branch in Galicia and Shukhevych’s “comrade-in-arms” R. Kravchuk - Petro.
The murder of Yaroslav Galan was followed by Abakumov’s very harsh directive No. 00469, ordering “to put an end to the OUN underground in the near future.” Very soon, they were arrested or eliminated along the chain from the perpetrator to the customer of the murder of Galan, and the operatives reached Shukhevych’s inner circle - his especially trusted female liaisons G. Didyk, O. Ilkiv and D. Gusyak.
The capture of the armed terrorist Daria Gusyak and her subsequent operational development (a separate exciting story) allowed the security officers to reach Shukhevych’s lair in the village of Belogorschi.
On March 5, Belogorscha, which consisted of 160 households, and the adjacent forest area were cordoned off by the Internal Troops of the Ministry of State Security of the Ukrainian SSR and taken into a tight ring.
The operational group led by Lieutenant Colonel Shorubalka (pictured), Colonel Maystruk, Colonel Fokin and Senior Lieutenant Demidenko, accompanied by soldiers of the internal troops and Danil Khrobak as a guide, immediately headed to the center of the village and at about 8.00 am surrounded house No. 76-A, on the second floor of which Anna Konyushik occupied a separate apartment.
At that moment, Shukhevych was in his hiding place - a narrow wooden box with sliding walls in the vestibule of the second floor. Next to the wall, in a room on the second floor, operational workers under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Shorubalka carried out a search and continued interrogating the woman who had returned from the attic, accompanied by soldier G. Didyk.
Shukhevych himself heard the conversations of the security officers well, since he was literally a few steps away from them. Apparently, having recovered a little from the rapid rush from the room to the hiding place and having assessed the situation, he decided to wait out the search and hide.
At that moment, footsteps and voices were heard on the stairs: “Where is Shorubalka?!” Is Ivan Kirillovich here?” The head of the department (communications) of the 2-N Department of the Ministry of State Security of the Ukrainian SSR, Major Revenko (his participation in the house was not envisaged) and the deputy head of the UMGB of the Lvov region, Colonel Fokin (who participated in the operation, but remained on the street and entered the house together with Revenko).
For all participants in the drama, and above all for the main person involved, Shukhevych, their appearance was completely unexpected. Apparently, Revenko, who was responsible for radio communications, was going to convey some urgent message to Shorubalka or warn the task force that Shukhevych might not be alone, but with security militants. Fokin, who together with Shorubalka was appointed responsible for the operation, accompanied him.
Shukhevych heard these voices in his hiding place, realized that there were more and more security officers, and decided to break through.
From MGB documents: “A few minutes later, shots were heard from behind a wooden partition on the second floor landing.”
But the first time Shukhevych missed (the width of the cover is only 30 cm, and raising your hand with a Walther to make a shot, especially an aimed one, is very problematic, if not impossible). Nationally concerned fabulists note in this regard that this shot was supposedly a warning shot for G. Didyk. Nonsense, of course, is utter nonsense. In that situation and with an acute shortage of time, Shukhevych had to shoot immediately and only to kill, and not get carried away with games of knighthood. It’s another matter that in the cramped space of the hiding place he was unable to make an aimed shot. Then Shukhevych opened the door of the hiding place with his foot and was able to visually see his target - it turned out to be Major Revenko, who was the first to rise.
From MGB documents: “...He opened fire, killed Major Revenko, the head of the 2-N Department of the MGB of the Ukrainian SSR... After which a half-dressed unknown man appeared, armed with a pistol and a grenade, who quickly rushed to the steps to run away from the house.”
Shorubalka managed to scream: “Just don’t shoot!”, but simultaneously with his scream, at the same moment, a machine gun burst was heard from the doorway into the room where the task force was located - the person standing near the door to the kitchen and controlling the stairs, as well as the entrance and exit, immediately reacted in the attic of private 8th company 10th joint venture VV MGB of the Ukrainian SSR Vasily Semenovich Bukhtoyarov. Shukhevych could not see him because of the corner that covered Bukhtoyarov. And Bukhtoyarov, being in the room himself, fired mechanically and aimlessly at a silhouette darting across the platform. But he shot successfully: three hits in the chest, later found on Shukhevych’s body, are the merit of Bukhtoyarov. However, he only managed to wound Shukhevych, who was running past the door.
Completely stunned and washed with yushka, Shukhevych literally fell down the stairs and somewhere in the middle of the flight, with his entire body, knocked down Colonel Fokin, who was climbing the stairs after Revenko. A struggle ensued between them; the two of them rolled head over heels and fell onto the porch of the house. At the same time, Fokin hit his head against the wall in the fall and lost consciousness.
Sharovary troubadours claim that the wounded Shukhevych, grappling with Fokin, and not being able to pull the pin from the grenade, nevertheless managed to put the Walther to his right temple and shoot himself with a bullet. What the supporters of this version are doing is clear: it is important for them to prove that, although wounded, the “UPA commander” did not surrender alive into the hands of the “KGB officers”, committing suicide.
According to the official version, near the entrance to the house there was a dog breeder left by Shorubalka, ml. Sergeant Viktor Sergeevich Panin with his service dog. He heard Bukhtoyarov’s shots from the second floor, and then saw Colonel Fokin falling out onto the porch and an “unknown man” lying on top of him (as Panin later realized, this was the “bandit leader” Shukhevych, wanted by the security officers).
Due to this fall from above, Shukhevych landed half a length ahead of Fokin and rose slightly on his elbows. Panin ran closer, having previously switched his PPSh to single fire, and tried to somehow react and help the colonel, not yet realizing that he was unconscious. At that moment, Shukhevych’s head turned slightly to the side, and Panin, trying not to catch Fokin in this mess, drove a bullet into it, ending the stinking life of the executioner and the punisher.
The Bandera singers’ version that Shukhevych heroically shot himself is based on a post-mortem photograph of a ghoul with a hole in his temple.
However, in the case of Shukhevych’s liquidation there are several photographs taken directly from the site of the operation. Bullet of the powerful 7.62 mm PPSh ml cartridge. Sergeant Panin pierced right through Shukhevych’s shoulder head. There are photos that clearly show the entrance and exit holes made by Panin’s bullet. And the photo on which the glorifiers of the dead base their “expertise” was taken from the carcass of the head of a man, who had been brought into a marketable condition in the morgue. A bullet from a much less powerful Walther cartridge would have remained in the General’s head.
On the other hand, even if Shukhevych committed suicide, which happened quite often with OUN agents during his capture, the task was still completed. It doesn’t matter whether the ghoul himself ran into an aspen stake during the operation, or whether it was driven into his sternum by a calloused hand - the result is the same.
The important thing is that Shukhevych’s grave, to which they could come, shed a tear, and venerate the damned relics of Tyagnibok and his comrades, does not exist. Shukhevych's corpse was cremated, and the ashes were scattered over some abandoned swamp.
Another thing is whether the people of Kiev will once again wipe themselves out when the avenue named in honor of the savior of Kiev, General Vatutin, is desecrated by the Tyahniboks, renamed Shukhevych Avenue, just as Moskovsky Avenue has already been renamed Bandera Avenue without much objection - that is the question...
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