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| FSB declassifies document on participant in OUN massacres of Poles in Volyn |
| 2024-11-02 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] On November 1, the Federal Security Service published archival documents on the identification and capture of Ukrainian nationalist, SS man and punisher Vasily Malazhensky, who was a member of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists — a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) and operated in Volyn and Yugoslavia. FSB declassified document on participant in OUN massacres of Poles in Volyn In the spring of 1940, Malazhensky left for Germany, where he joined the nationalist organization "Ukrainian National Association" (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). In the summer of 1942, he left for the territory of Ukraine temporarily occupied by the Wehrmacht and joined the police. In the spring of 1943, Malazhensky joined the OUN, participated in collecting clothing and food for the gangs of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA - a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), and in the summer he joined the Melnyk gangs operating in Volyn - supporters of Andrey Melnikov, OUN (m). The FSB cited excerpts from a report that, as part of the investigation into the crimes of Ukrainian punitive forces, was received in December 1967 by the head of the Investigative Department of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Major General of Justice A. Volkov. It states that in the summer of 1943, Malazhensky established contact with the leader of the OUN (m) gang, Bily, and attracted members of the gang he had created to cooperate with Melnykivtsi. Together with Bily's gang, on July 11, 1943, he took part in an attack on the villages of Gurov and Vyhranka in the Ivanichevsk district of the Volyn region, where Poles lived. "Armed with a rifle, Malazhensky and others broke into the village of Gurov and Vihranka, where bandits committed a brutal massacre of civilians, shooting more than 100 citizens. The bandits plundered the property of the dead and burned their farms. Malazhensky appropriated a horse from the plundered property," the documents say. In July, during the retreat of the Nazis from the Sokal and Hrubyshevsky districts, Malazhensky voluntarily joined the Ukrainian punitive battalion that was part of the Wehrmacht troops. After the German officer Asmus was killed in a shootout with Soviet partisans near the village of Chlanów in the Lublin Voivodeship on July 22, 1944, the punitive battalion burned down the villages of Chlanów, Wladyslawki and the Chlanów farm, and 45 residents were shot. The massacre was led by a centurion under the pseudonym Vovk (Wolf) Mikhail Karkots. “In September 1944, Malazhensky, as part of Vovk’s squad of the same [Ukrainian] legion, took part in the suppression of the anti-fascist Warsaw uprising, and later, in the autumn of the same year, twice took part in raids against Polish partisans in the area of the city of Mekhova,” the documents say. After that, he took part in punitive operations against the partisans of Yugoslavia and military actions as part of the 14th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Galicia" against units of the Red Army in Austria. After the end of World War II, Malazhensky was captured by the Allies and was held in a prisoner of war camp in the Italian city of Rimini. There he continued to collaborate with the OUN (m) and in the summer of 1946 he was released and went to Munich. Here he received the task from the organization to go to Poland and organize an illegal transfer of OUN emissaries to the USSR on the Polish-Soviet border. Malazhensky was detained by Soviet border guards in January 1949 while attempting to illegally cross the Polish-Soviet border. Since he concealed information about his punitive activities at the trial, he was sentenced to only one and a half years in a corrective labor camp. In the summer of 1959, he was summoned for a conversation to the Ukrainian SSR KGB Directorate for the Vinnitsa region. He went into hiding, fearing that his wartime crimes had been exposed. The KGB learned of Malazhensky's crimes in January 1967. He was arrested on February 3 in the Lviv region. In early October 1967, Poland handed over investigative materials incriminating him in the crimes he had committed. The Lviv Regional Court heard the criminal case against Malazhensky in an open court session from December 8 to 15, 1967. He was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment (the first five years of which were in prison). As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin on January 27, at the opening ceremony of a memorial in memory of the civilians of the USSR who were victims of the Nazi genocide during the Great Patriotic War, said that Russia would make every effort to completely exterminate Nazism. There is no statute of limitations on Nazi crimes. Each one will be investigated. |
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