Ivan Samoilovich Litvinchuk (pseudonyms: “Maxim”, “Oak”, “David”, “Roots”, “7604”, “9245”, “0405”, “8228”) - ( August 21, 1920 , p. Biskupichi-Russians , Vladimir-Volynsky , Volyn Region - January 19, 1951 , Golden Farms, Demidovsky District , Rivne Region ) - UPA Major, UPA-North regional conductor.
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| Date of Birth | August 21, 1920 |
| Place of Birth | with. Biskupichi-Russians , Vladimir-Volynsky district , Poland |
| Date of death | January 19, 1951 (30 years old) |
| Place of death | Zolotiivsky farms, Demidovsky district , |
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The official position of Poland is that Ivan Litvinchuk is a war criminal as a participant and co-organizer of the Volyn Massacre . [1] [2]
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Biography
Half-orphaned, brought up at the Derman Monastery from the age of 14, studied at the Theological Seminary in Kremenets . In 1937 he became secretary of Archbishop Simon , with whom he traveled to Warsaw, where he was intermittently until 1939.
According to other sources, a political prisoner in Polish prisons (1937-1939), a member of the organizational reference of the OUN in Krakow (1940-1941).
Member of the OUN. During the German occupation, he worked for some time in the city council of Sarny and at the same time headed the Sarnensky district of the OUN (b) Forest Song (1941-43). The organizer of military training and the first departments of the UPA at the PZUZ (1942-1943). The commander of the First group of the UPA (soon - IN "Zarevo") (1943-44).
On the night of June 21-22, 1943 , Dubovy led the general leadership of the massacre organized by the UPA in the Yanova Valley . In March 1944, removed from office, headed the Mazepa Military Institute. Since November 1944 - the regional conductor of the North-Western Territory with the cryptonym Khmelnitsky, Moscow. Since 1945 - a member of the OUN (b) wire at the ROM. The commander of the UPA-North in the rank of major (1945-1949), deputy conductor of the OUN in the PZUZ since 1949.
Polish prosecutor Piotr Zając [1] and the famous Polish historian Grzegorz Motyka [2] believe that Litvinchuk is one of the main organizers and performers of the Pole genocide during the Volyn massacre .
According to P. Sodol, after the death of “Klim Savur” ( Dmitry Klyachkivsky ), UPA-North headed “Dubovy”. The assumption of P. Mirchuk seems to be correct, that Karpovich (M. Medved), who was the military assistant of the OUN wire to the PZZU, could become the UPA-North commander. Only after his death at the beginning of June 1945, the post of UPA-North commander was possibly taken by Dubovy. However, this is not conclusively with “clarified, because after Karpovich’s death,” the UPA-North conductor could become the OUN conductor at the Smok ROM ( Nikolai Kozak ). There is only certain information that Dubovoy became the UPA-North commander only after Smok died in 1949 .
He was killed in the shelter on January 19, 1951 at the Zolotiivsky farms (now the village of Niva-Zolochovsky , belonging to the village council of the village of Zolochovka , Demidovsky district, Rivne region ).
Memory
At the site of the death of Ivan Litvinchuk, a Memorial Cross was erected, the school in the village was named after him. Gilding [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Piotr Zając, Prześladowania ludności narodowości Polish Opracowania i materiały prokuratorów IPN , t. 2: Ludobójstwo , red. Radosław Ignatiew, Antoni Kura, Warszawa 2008, s. 37
- ↑ 1 2 Grzegorz Motyka, Ukraińska partyzantka 1942-1960 , op. cit., s. 308.
- ↑ * Zolochіvskіy schools і appropriated іm'ya head commander UPA- "Pivnich" "Dubovoy"
Literature
- Marchuk I. The commander of the UPA-Pivnich D. Klyachkivsky - Klim Savur. - Rivne, 2009. - p. 68
- Kentiy A. Zbroynyi rank of Ukrainian nationalist. - T.2. - p. 54-55 (footnote)