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Вигнати окупанта

Author: Герчанівський Д.
Year of publication: 1963
Published in: Мюнхен: Видання Крайової управи Братства колишніх Вояків 1-ї Української Дивізії УНА в Німеччині
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: not allowed (a book by D. Herchanovsky (1963) under copyright)

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Where we got it

Original source: https://diasporiana.org.ua/memuari/gerchanivskyj-d-vygnaty-okupanta/

Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 4 places.

Campaigns

• Soviet-Ukrainian War: Third Invasion and the Final Soviet Occupation (December 1919 - November 1921)

Procedures

• Soviet-Ukrainian War: Third Invasion and the Final Soviet Occupation (December 1919 - November 1921) — technique Military Intervention

  The prisoners were taken to the village of Bazar, where 359 of them were shot

• Soviet-Ukrainian War: Third Invasion and the Final Soviet Occupation (December 1919 - November 1921) — technique Killing of Prisoners and Detainees

  2578 of November 26, 1921

  The Russian commission described the battle as follows: «Over 400 men were cut down in the battle and 537 captured, including the wounded… In all, 443 men appeared before the extraordinary commission (the Five); the rest died of their wounds before the commission arrived or were in grave condition and left until recovery»

  …document: «Guided by the dictates of revolutionary conscience… and in order to prevent similar crimes… and to show the entire capitalist world and its hirelings that the power of the Soviets mercilessly punishes anyone who attempts to disrupt its peaceful work, the Extraordinary Five resolves: 1. The persons listed in the annex hereto, numbering 359, as malicious, active bandits - TO BE SHOT»

  The fate of the remaining Ukrainian prisoners the commission set out in the same document: forty-one men of the senior command and civil administration it ordered sent for further interrogation by the investigative organs, and forty-two former Red Army soldiers, captured a year earlier, to the special department of the Kyiv Military District for screening

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• Soviet-Ukrainian War: Third Invasion and the Final Soviet Occupation (December 1919 - November 1921) — technique Terror

  The captured Ukrainians were taken to the neighbouring village of Bazar, and a visiting Russian commission (the «Extraordinary Five») sentenced 359 men to death

  The day before the shooting they forced the peasants of the village of Bazar to dig a long ditch in a ravine, and brought the residents of the surrounding villages to the execution site

  The purpose is recorded in the testimonies gathered by a courier of the Ukrainian underground who visited the site immediately after the execution: the people were herded there «to deter the population from attempts to resist Soviet rule»

  A detachment of the invader's army surrounded the 359 captured Ukrainians in a tight ring and shot them before the eyes of their assembled compatriots

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