ЛИКВИДАЦИЯ ОУНОВЦЕВ В ВОЙСКАХ ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОГО ФРОНТА (АВГУСТ - СЕНТЯБРЬ 1941 Г.)
Liquidation of the members of Organization of Ukrainian nationalists in the troops of the Leningrad front (August - September 1941)

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the problem of detection and liquidation of an anti-soviet movement from Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, mostly ethnic Ukrainians, in the troops of the Leningrad front in August - October 1941. The paper predominantly focuses on the members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), part of which managed to sneak into the Red Army to organize conversions to the German side. Special consideration is given to the question of the number of members of the OUN in the Red Army, their sentiments and their relationship with the leadership of the nationalist movement on the territory of the newly annexed territories of the Soviet Union and outside the USSR. Particular attention in this article is paid to the statistics of all the convicted (including those sentenced to capital punishment) representatives of the “nationalist movement” with a broad use of materials from departmental archives, as well as a comparative analysis between those arrested and the repressed categories of other nationalities at the Leningrad front in August - September 1941. A special place in the article is given to the question of the appropriateness of harsh punitive measures against this category of servicemen in the critical period of the Great Patriotic War. The article contributes to the well-known controversy about the extent of the participation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in punitive operations against the population of the Soviet Union, and it’s collaboration with German punitive and intelligence services and the Wehrmacht, promoting propaganda of defeatism in the first period of the war.

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