Catalogue · ID 315

Радянський період 1939—1941 рр.

Author: Національний музей-меморіал жертв окупаційних режимів «Тюрма на Лонцького»
Year of publication: 2013
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: not allowed (a 2013 publication under copyright)

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Original source: https://lonckoho.lviv.ua/istoriya/istoriya-vyaznytsi/radyanskyj-period-1939-1941-rr

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Procedures

• Annexation and Sovietization of Western Ukraine (1939–1941) — technique Neutralization of the Opposition

  The neutralization of the politically active stratum through mass arrests: immediately after the "People's Assembly" came "the arrests of leading figures of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, by lists prepared in advance, drawn up in the Soviet consulate"

  "in all, in 1939—1941 the NKVD organs arrested 21,982 Poles, 23,163 Ukrainians and 13,160 Jews"

  and those arrested faced execution, prison or the GULAG camps: "in total, during 1939—1941, between 16 and 35 thousand OUN members were shot or imprisoned"