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Security Service of Ukraine Has Documents Proving Purposeful Destruction of UGCC by Communists
07-08-2009
KYIV-The deputy head of the State Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine, Serhii Kokin, said in an interview to the German Wave that the archives of Ukraine contain over a thousand documents confirming that the top leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was involved in the destruction of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, UNIAN reports. RISU's Ukrainian-language web site posted this story on August 5, 2009.
According to Kokin, most of these documents are still classified. He also noted that the recently published letter, in which the head of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Mykyta Khrushchov, informed Stalin about the liquidation of the "Uniate" Church, is most probably authentic.
According to Kokin, the second or third copy of the letter can be kept in the former Archive of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party, now, the Central State Archive of Public Associations of Ukraine.
"The textual analysis method can prove if it is a true copy. For it is clear that the first copy was sent to Moscow and the second one was left here," he noted.
Kokin says that historians have already declassified 240 documents of the workers of security service of USSR, who watched priests, interrogated and tortured them, and wrote reports for Khrushchev on the basis of their testimonies. He is convinced that the historic truth should be restored. However, he could not say if it will be possible to initiate proceedings and sentence the perpetrators on the basis of these proofs.
"According to Rafael Lemkin, the liquidation of a national church is an attribute of genocide, as it is aimed against a certain group of people. The question arises why exactly the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was liquidated when there were also other denominations," noted Kokin.
• http://www.unian.net/ukr/news/news-329815.html
http://www.risu.org.ua/eng/news/article;30793/
