MOSCOW. (Political commentator Leonid Mlechin...
compatriots for collaborating with Soviet power, and had no mercy even on children.Now supporters of Bandera, his Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the UIA, and Shukhevich who ordered his commandos to shoot wonder why these forces should be condemned when some Cheka (the first Soviet state security organization) officers and men also acted without any compassion or respect for the law? A resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine dated January 10, 1945 reads: "There were some absolutely unacceptable cases when some NKVD and NKGB (Cheka successors) resorted to punishment without going into details. They burn houses and kill individual citizens without trial, although they have nothing to do with the militants. By doing so, these officers and men discredit themselves and Soviet government bodies."
Sometimes, OUN commandos put on Cheka uniforms and staged atrocities in order to turn the locals against Soviet
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