'Shame Ukrainians and Jews': what role did the KGB play in the fate of the concentration camp guard, about whom Netflix directed the series - ForumDaily
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'To quarrel Ukrainians and Jews': what role did the KGB play in the fate of the concentration camp guard, about whom Netflix filmed the series

The news that the American company Netflix released a documentary series about a native of Ukraine Ivan Demyaniuk, a former guard of the Nazi death camp who was accused of killing more than 28 000 prisoners, again drew attention to his biography.

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The question is whether he is guilty, is the person who committed the crimes mentioned, still open, notes Air force. The trial lasted more than three decades and ended in 2012 year due to the death of Demjanjuk.

After the war, he ended up in West Germany, from where he emigrated to the United States in 1952 and received citizenship there. Over the last 35 years of his life, he has gone through trials in three countries. He was deprived of citizenship, sentenced to death, acquitted, then again tried. All this time, the debate about whether he is guilty or not has not subsided.

What does the KGB have to do with it?

The situation remained uncertain due to diametrically different assessments of the evidence as to whether he was the sadistic guard of the Nazi Treblinka camp, nicknamed “Ivan the Terrible”: some courts recognized the prosecution documents as real, others as a forgery.

Employees of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation also had doubts about some of the documents. Back in 1985, they suspected that Demjanjuk's Nazi ID card was not the main evidence of his guilt - "it was very likely that it was fabricated" by the KGB.

Despite this, the FBI did not announce its doubts for more than 25 years: for the first time they became known in 2011.

In this context, you should carefully look at the document, which is stored in the Branch State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine.

We are talking about an “Information message” classified as “Secret”, sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on February 13, 1981 with the signature of the Chairman of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR, General Vitaly Fedorchuk.

The red stamp on the first page reminds readers at the Central Committee: “Returnable.” This document was declassified in August 2013.

Judging by the reviews of those who have already watched the Netflix series, its authors are not aware of the message of the main “KGB officer” of Soviet Ukraine.

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“Measures to compromise OUN members”

The corresponding section of the “Information Message” has an eloquent title: “On measures to compromise OUN members - former war criminals” (OUN - Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists).

First, Fedorchuk announced “a trial in the United States, under pressure from public opinion, of the cases of OUN members and former Hitler henchmen who settled in the United States.”

It seems that the root cause of the trial was precisely the pressure of public opinion.

But no. As it turns out further, “the KGB bodies of the republic collected and transferred documentary materials about their bloody crimes during the Second World War to the American authorities, as well as to the media.”

Please note: the materials were not transferred in an official manner, that is, publicly and legally, but “through the capabilities of the KGB of the USSR.” Actually, through Soviet agents in the USA.

That is, the USSR did not want to demonstrate its interest in this matter and portrayed an outside observer.

Apparently, the KGB had a “particularly trusting relationship” with Michael Hanusyak, a Ukrainian who was born in the USA.

It is known that it was he who allegedly, on his own initiative, compiled and published in the Ukrainian News newspaper, which he edited, a list of Ukrainians in America, former Nazi criminals - several names.

It is less known that the US Communist Party, whose active leader was Ganusyak (according to some reports, even a member of the Central Committee), was financed from Moscow.

The person involved in the list printed by Ganusyak was also Ivan Demyaniuk.

“To drive a wedge between Ukrainians and Jews”

Fedorchuk informs that the US Department of Justice has opened a case of deprivation of citizenship and deportation against Demianyuk, which was considered by the Cleveland court.

General Demyanjuk general provided a brief reference.

“During the war,” the certificate said, “he deserted from the Soviet Army, voluntarily enlisted in the SS troops, served as a guard in the fascist death camps Sobibor, Treblinka (Poland) and Flossenburg (Germany), and took direct part in the mass extermination of prisoners , including persons of Jewish nationality. the indictment states that upon entering the United States he concealed the fact of his participation in Nazi crimes against the population of the Soviet Union and Poland.”

Fedorchuk does not hide why his department is actively involved in this story. The first goal is “further compromise of the OUN.”

The second goal: to create a rift among emigrant circles, in particular, to drive a wedge between Ukrainians and Jews (in KGB terminology, between “OUN members” and “Zionists”).

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This intention of the USSR, by the way, was immediately “deciphered” by Valentin Moroz, a dissident and prisoner of the Mordovian camps, who in 1979, along with four other dissidents, was exchanged for two Soviet spies imprisoned in the United States.

Frost was a participant in a protest rally that took place on February 10, 1981 in front of the Cleveland courthouse. He explained to a newspaper correspondent that “the trial of Demjanjuk was inspired by the Soviet Union to incite hostility between Jews and Ukrainians.”

On April 15, 1981, the chairman of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR announced the news: a court decision was expected to deprive Demjanjuk of US citizenship and deport him to Poland or Germany. And he assured that his department will continue to work “to compromise the OUN members before the public of Western countries and to counter their blockade with the Zionists.”

For several months, Fedorchuk informed the Central Committee that on June 23, the Cleveland District Court decided to deprive Demyanuk of US citizenship and deport him from the country.

What does this mean?

The above “signals” from the main “KGB officer” of the Ukrainian SSR to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine do not at all mean that all the evidence against Demjanjuk was fabricated by the KGB. The issue of authenticity should be studied by specialists and they should evaluate the pros and cons.

But the cited news reports indicate that the Demjanjuk issue was dealt with not by the KGB of the USSR, as was previously believed, but by the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR - Fedorchuk emphasizes this circumstance more than once.

That is, the corresponding case should be stored in Kiev, and not in Moscow.

Perhaps when it is found, it will be possible to determine exactly which documents on Demyanjuk were (were not) falsified.

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