Kirill Vasilyevich Datsko ( Ukrainian. Kirilo Vasilovich Datsko ; June 7, 1905 , Kirillovka - December 30, 1963 , New York) - Ukrainian scientist-physicist, historian, journalist, politician. During the Second World War he was captured and collaborated with the Third Reich, after the war he fled to the USA.
| Kirill Vasilyevich Datsko | |
|---|---|
| ukr Kirilo Vasilovich Datsko | |
| Date of Birth | June 7, 1905 |
| Place of Birth | Kirillovka , Kiev Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | December 30, 1963 (58 years old) |
| Place of death | New York , USA |
| A country |  USSR →  Germany →  USA |
| Scientific field | physics , history |
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| Alma mater | Kiev Pedagogical Institute |
| Academic degree | Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences |
| Known as | collaborated with the Third Reich during the years of WWII ; after the war he collected materials about the Ukrainian nationalist movement |
Biography
Born on June 7, 1905 in the village of Kirillovka, Kiev province (now Chernihiv region). He graduated from the Kiev Pedagogical Institute in 1932, taught at the Ukrainian Institute for Advanced Studies of Business Managers and the Kiev Agricultural Institute, since 1940 Professor of the Department of Physics of the Kiev Agricultural Institute [1] .
Mobilized in the Red Army in 1941 as a major , in the same year he was captured by Germans near Kiev. According to Pavel Shandruk , they found documents in Datsko regarding the assignment of the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Red Army and the request for assigning Datsko the rank of colonel; in turn, Petr Yamnyak argued that Datsko was already a colonel, for some reason wearing the buttonhole of the major. Another version suggests that Datsko in emigration was given the rank of colonel of the UPR. By mistake, Datsko is considered to be an employee of the USSR Air Force [2] .
In 1943, he went to cooperate with the Germans and began working as a propagandist in the SS regiment "Kurt Eggers", in his Russian and Ukrainian sections of war correspondents. At the end of 1944, he was sent to Berlin to form the Ukrainian Liberation Army as a political propagandist, but due to his unwillingness to obey General A.A. Vlasov , who wanted to give the AOA, refused to cooperate further with the Germans in protest [3] .
After the war, Datsko was sent to the camp for displaced persons in New Ulm in Bavaria, where he met with Yuri Gorlis-Gorsky , who participated in the creation of the Ukrainian revolutionary-democratic left-wing party. Kept in touch with British intelligence. After the murder of Gorlis-Gorsky, Datsko handed over his personal belongings and the collected documents to the British special services. Without waiting for the expected clash between the Allies and the Soviet Union, Dacko, disappointed, left for the United States, where he managed the affairs of Ukrainian migration. He created the Ukrainian Military History Institute in New York, collecting information about the Ukrainian nationalist movement (the archive fund is now in the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in the USA), as well as the Democratic Union affected by the Soviet repression [4] .
He died on December 30, 1963 in New York, and was buried in the Orthodox cemetery in South Bound Brook .