By Bohdan Cherniawski | July 23rd, 2025 In the waning weeks of August 1944, as the German military retreated across France and Allied divisions advanced from both Normandy and the south, an organized rebellion unfolded in the Haute-Saône region in…
80 years underground
OUN documents found in a can in the forest will be restored in the Frankivsk region On April 8, 2025, archival documents of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which had been underground for 80 years, were handed over for restoration….
How the student underground was created and then destroyed in Kyiv 100 years ago
Union of Ukrainian Youth Continued from issue 15 A different story happened to Pavlushkov, who studied at the veterinary institute. “One of his comrades, having noticed that he was wearing a cross, reported him. An investigation is underway. They may…
“Fanatically minded Ukrainian nationalist”: historian Valentyn Moroz in the assessment of the KGB
Yuriy Shchur At the end of February 2025, the Kyiv publishing house “Ukrainian Publishing Business” announced the imminent release of another (already the 9th!) collection from the series of classics of nationalist thought. This time, under one cover, the works…
Report from the “Stalin Reserve”.
Part 5: “… forcing people to prepare for eviction”. Yuriy Shchur Over the three years of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war (and in general, since the beginning of this war in 2014), hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have left their homes….
Ukrainian Writer and His Struggle with the Soviet System: Notes on Serhiy Plachynda
Yuriy Shchur The Soviet state security agencies, as is known, were the “watchful eye” of the communist regime. Accordingly, no anti-Soviet sentiments and manifestations passed their attention, especially if they concerned Ukraine. Flipping through the pages of reports, reports, and…
How KGB officers in the Kherson region monitored the “correctness” of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Rada in 1954
Yuriy Shchur The Soviet government, like no one else, understood the importance of the “correct” interpretation of historical events. Anyone who considers the study and coverage of various, and even more so, key, events in the life of the country…
Ukrainian underground of Mariupol: the organization “Freedom of Labor
Yuriy Shchur The Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been known in all corners of our planet for three years. The heroic defense of the city from the Russians and the genocidal crimes of the latter forced thousands of pairs of…
WHERE SHUKHEVICHY IS ONLY IN THE PLURAL
Iryna Pustynnikova, “Local History” Finding an unpatriotic village in Pokuttya is a very difficult task. But in Tyshkivtsi, patriotism is special, enduring. Its support is the Shukhevych family. Because Shukhevych here is only in the plural. Father Osyp began to…
“IT IS BETTER TO DIE STANDING THAN TO LIVE ON YOUR KNEES”
On March 5, 1950, the UPA Commander-in-Chief Roman Shukhevych (Taras Chuprynka) died. “To gain the Ukrainian state or to die fighting for it” was the OUN slogan and the life principle of Roman Shukhevych. He led the liberation struggle of…
Images of Hetman Mazepa’s warriors discovered in Baturyn
Zenon Kohut (Edmonton), Volodymyr Mezentsev (Toronto), Yurii Sytyi (Chernihiv). In 1995-2021, Ukrainian and Canadian archaeologists and historians conducted annual excavations in the town of Baturyn, Chernihiv Oblast (fig. 1). Last year, the field research was suspended due to Russia’s full-scale…
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