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19.05.2005   Borys Zakharov

The Ukrainian National Committee (UNC)

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The Ukrainian National Committee (UNC) was created in Lviv by Bohdan Hrytsyna and Ivan Koval, two young workers. The idea of forming an underground organization arose in 1956, but as Rusnachenko notes, one can only speak of any concrete activity by the UNC from 1958 onwards. Throughout its existence, the UNC was actively recruiting new members. According to KGB data, the UNC had 57 members. Later, the UNC leadership developed program documents, clearly defining its goals and objectives. It must be said that the UNC was a rather radical organization. Its program was much more radical than the ideas of the OUN. Alongside program points such as complete national independence, there was a point concerning the deportation of all other nations beyond Ukraine’s borders. And, of course, the points about a Ukrainian government elected by the people, as well as a Ukrainian national army, were understood by the program’s authors not only in a state sense but also in an ethnic one. The organization’s tasks were propagandistic activity and the preparation of an armed uprising at some unspecified time in the future.  This is evidenced by the active collection of weapons. The UNC also obtained printing fonts, and a printing press was almost ready, but the organization was exposed. Twenty people were brought to trial. B. Hrytsyna and I. Koval were executed by firing squad. Two other UNC members, V. Hnot and R. Hurny, were also sentenced to death, but on appeal, their sentences were commuted to 15 years in the camps. The remaining members received sentences ranging from 5 to 15 years in the camps. For many of them, unserved sentences for their connection with the UPA were also taken into account.


 

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