Ukraine talks about the KGB, but keeps silent about the crimes of the UPA
Ukraine surpasses Russia in the level of openness of archival documents relating to the activities of the KGB, but access to many documents on the UPA is closed.
Director of the Historical Memory Foundation Alexander Dyukov stated this today at a press conference in Moscow.
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“We can only welcome that now in Ukraine there is open access to documents of state security agencies from the 20s, 30s, and 40s, which in Russia, unfortunately, are closed. Even if this was done by people who are personally unpleasant to me, but this is their merit, I cannot help but admit it. If Russia also decided to declassify these documents, as they once declassified documents on the Holodomor from the presidential archive, this would be a positive fact that would show that we also have nothing to hide,” Dyukov said.
At the same time, in Ukraine, access to documents relating to the OUN-UPA is practically closed. Dyukov said that he was unable to obtain a copy of the document stating that Ukrainian nationalists included in their program the extermination of Poles 5 years before the Volyn massacre.
“This is a well-known document published a long time ago, but the archives refused to allow me to receive it. Moreover, when I asked my Ukrainian colleagues to make a copy for me, they told me that this was impossible now,” Dyukov said.
According to his information, Ukraine also refused to publish a study by Russian and Polish scientists proving the participation of the UPA in the Holocaust.
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