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Today, Borys Derevyanko is dead, and Eduard Hurvits, barred by his corruption from

holding the office of mayor of Odessa, continues his criminal career as a member of the

Ukrainian parliament. Photographs of Derevyanko and Hurvits are shown below:

Newspaper editor

Borys Derevyanko

Odessa Mayor

Eduard Hurvits

The table which I began in my letter to you of 30Jun99 can now be elaborated with

another entry:

Date of my letter

Subject of my letter

Date of Attack

Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom

15May99

Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?

April 1979

30Jun99

Who murdered Vadim Boyko?

February 14, 1992

Violence that you might have caused by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom

09Apr99

Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?

Summer 1995

17May99

Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?

July 7-8, 1997

01Jul99

Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?

August 11, 1997

As the conclusion of your 23Oct94 60 Minutes story, The Ugly Face of Freedom, was that

Ukraine is a place in which Ukrainians practice violence against Jews, it is highly

relevant that Borys Derevyanko is Ukrainian and Eduard Hurvits is Jewish. You went to

Ukraine looking for evidence of Ukrainians harming Jews, you failed to find such

evidence, but you broadcast your conclusion anyway. The true story that you would not

broadcast, and that was readily documentable, is that Ukraine is a place in which Jews

harm Ukrainians. The plainest moral to be drawn from the Derevyanko-Hurvits story is

that when a muckraking Ukrainian editor takes on a corrupt Jewish politician, the

Ukrainian editor ends up dead. That is the reality of Ukraine. It was the reality of

Ukraine when you visited it in 1994, it was the reality of Ukraine before 1994, and it

has been the reality of Ukraine since 1994.

As in earlier letters, I fault you for not reporting such incidents as are in the above

table that took place before 1994, and I fault you for precipitating such incidents that

took place after 1994. Thus, to the blood that is already on your hands, I add the

blood of Borys Derevyanko. You had the opportunity in your 1994 broadcast to come out

on the side of the victims against the butchers, but you preferred to side with the

butchers against the victims, and Borys Derevyanko has been one of the casualties of

your decision.

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc: Yaakov Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,

Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.

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Morley Safer Letter 13 04Jul99 The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny

Thus, it is possible that you contributed to Maksym Tsarenko losing his hands, and to

Volodymyr Katelnytsky together with his mother, and Borys Derevyanko, losing their

lives.

Additional information on the Lviv massacre can be found in Alfred M. de Zayas, The

Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945.

July 4, 1999

Morley Safer

60 Minutes, CBS Television

51 W 52nd Street

New York, NY

USA 10019

Morley Safer:

You Broadcast to 30 Million 60 Minutes

Viewers that in the Days Prior to German

Occupation, Ukrainians Killed Jews

In your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, you joined with

Simon Wiesenthal in charging that in the days preceding the arrival of German forces

in June 1941, Lviv Ukrainians killed thousands of Jews:

SAFER: He [Simon Wiesenthal] remembers that even before the

Germans arrived, Ukrainian police went on a 3-day killing spree.

WIESENTHAL: And in this 3 days in Lvov alone between 5 and 6

thousand Jews was killed.

[...]

SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian

militia, the police, killed 3,000 people in 2 days here.

Some 60 Minutes viewers may have been struck by the observation that while the 60

Minutes expert witness – Simon Wiesenthal – claimed that the number of Jews killed

was "between 5 and 6 thousand" in three days, you – supposedly the neutral

interviewer – chose to reduce the number killed to "3,000" and the duration of the

killing to two days – but without informing the viewer on what grounds you did so.

One wonders what reason you would have had for undermining the testimony of your

chief – and only – witness. One wonders what superior authority you discovered for

your revised statistic, and why you did not bring this superior authority forward to

testify in front of the CBS cameras instead of Simon Wiesenthal whose testimony you

apparently distrusted and chose to contradict. And one wonders that you could have

such low regard for the intelligence of 60 Minutes viewers that you would broadcast

discrepant accounts without explaining the discrepancy.

However, I Can't Find Anyone Else

Substantiating the Wiesenthal-Safer

Pre-German Lviv Pogrom

In my reading, I have yet to come across a single account which supports the

Wiesenthal-Safer claim of anywhere from 3,000 Jews killed in 2 days to 5,000-6,000

Jews killed in 3 days in Lviv during the pre-German interval. Had the

Wiesenthal-Safer pogrom taken place, then it would have been one of the biggest

pogroms of the war, and possibly the very biggest, and thus obligatory to describe

in every history of the Holocaust, if not in every history of the Second World War.

What I found, in contrast, was statements contradicting the possibility of the

Wiesenthal-Safer pogrom, most notably the following three made by Raul Hilberg:

From the Ukraine Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C reported as

follows:

Almost nowhere can the population be persuaded to

take active steps against the Jews. This may be

explained by the fear of many people that the Red

Army may return. Again and again this anxiety has

been pointed out to us. Older people have remarked

that they had already experienced in 1918 the

sudden retreat of the Germans. In order to meet

the fear psychosis, and in order to destroy the

myth [...] which, in the eyes of many Ukrainians,

places the Jew in the position of the wielder of

political power, Einsatzkommando 6 on several

occasions marched Jews before their execution

through the city. Also, care was taken to have

Ukrainian militiamen watch the shooting of Jews.

This "deflation" of the Jews in the public eye did not have the

desired effect. After a few weeks, Einsatzgruppe C complained once

more that the inhabitants did not betray the movements of hidden

Jews. The Ukrainians were passive, benumbed by the "Bolshevist

terror." Only the ethnic Germans in the area were busily working

for the Einsatzgruppe. (Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the

European Jews, 1961, p. 202)

The Slavic population stood estranged and even aghast before the

unfolding spectacle of the "final solution." There was on the

whole no impelling desire to cooperate in a process of such utter

ruthlessness. The fact that the Soviet regime, fighting off the

Germans a few hundred miles to the east, was still threatening to

return, undoubtedly acted as a powerful restraint upon many a

potential collaborator. (Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the

European Jews, 1985, p. 308)

First, truly spontaneous pogroms, free from Einsatzgruppen

influence, did not take place; all outbreaks were either organized

or inspired by the Einsatzgruppen. Second, all pogroms were

implemented within a short time after the arrival of the killing

units. They were not self-perpetuating, nor could new ones be

started after things had settled down. (Raul Hilberg, The

Destruction of the European Jews, 1985, p. 312)

Fearing that substantiation for the Wiesenthal-Safer Lviv pogrom did exist somewhere

and that I had merely overlooked it, I made enquiry to leading Holocaust historian,

Raul Hilberg, on 15Sep97. Professor Hilberg was good enough in his reply of 15Dec97

to outline for me instances that he knew of anti-Jewish activity conducted in that

area at that time, and none of these instances gave credence to the Wiesenthal-Safer

Lviv pogrom.

Perhaps the most telling piece of evidence that the Wiesenthal-Safer Lviv pogrom was

a fabrication is unearthed upon trying to substantiate it in Simon Wiesenthal's own

writing. In one place, Simon Wiesenthal has the anti-Jewish activity postdating the

arrival of the Germans, and mentions neither the number of fatalities nor the

duration:

The Ukrainian police ... had played a disastrous role in Galicia

following the entry of the German troops at the end of June and the

beginning of July 1941. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance,

1989, p. 34, emphasis added)

And later in the same account, Simon Wiesenthal does mention a Lviv pogrom of three

day's duration, but again without mentioning the number of fatalities, and again

unambiguously placing it after the German occupation:

Thousands of detainees were shot dead in their cells by the

retreating Soviets. This gave rise to one of the craziest

accusations of that period: among the strongly anti-Semitic

population the rumour was spread by the Ukrainian nationalists that

all Jews were Bolsheviks and all Bolsheviks were Jews. Hence it

was the Jews who were really to blame for the atrocities committed

by the Soviets.

All the Germans needed to do was to exploit this climate of

opinion. It is said that after their arrival they gave the

Ukrainians free rein, for three days, to 'deal' with the Jews.

(Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p. 36, emphasis

added)

Also, whereas on your 60 Minutes broadcast you gave the impression that Simon

Wiesenthal was making his appearance on 60 Minutes in the role of an eyewitness to

the Wiesenthal-Safer Lviv Pogrom, or at least as a researcher who had documented it,

yet in the quotation immediately above, Simon Wiesenthal's use of "It is said that"

gives the contrasting impression that he is no more than passing along a rumor

concerning events that he has neither witnessed nor verified.

In conclusion, the Wiesenthal-Safer story of a massive pre-German Lviv pogrom is not

supported in historical writing, and is even contradicted by other testimony, some

of it leading Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg's, and some of it your own expert

witness Simon Wiesenthal's. Thus, unless you are able to substantiate the

Wiesenthal-Safer pre-German Lviv pogrom, you will invite the conclusion that it

never took place, and that your implanting it into the minds of 30 million 60

Minutes viewers constituted an attempt on the part of two individuals Simon

Wiesenthal and yourself – to fabricate a piece of history.

In Fact, the Consensus Seems to be that in

the Days Prior to German Occupation, it

was the NKVD that was Killing Ukrainians

In contrast to what appears to be a lack of substantiation of the Wiesenthal-Safer

story that in the days prior to German occupation Ukrainians were murdering Jews, I

do in my reading keep stumbling across quite a different story – that in the days

prior to German occupation, it was the NKVD that was murdering Ukrainians. Below

are 22 such statements. These statements were discovered not through any systematic

or exhaustive search, but rather only through casual reading. A systematic and

exhaustive search would turn up a much larger number of such statements.

In order to demonstrate that the NKVD had a general policy of killing Ukrainians

prior to retreating, of which the Lviv massacre was but a single instance, I include

descriptions of such killings in several locations.

"NKVD," in case you are interested, is an acronym for the Russian "Narodny

Komisariat Vnutrenikh Del," which translates as "National Commissariat of Internal

Affairs," and which bland title gives no hint of the NKVD's true role.

Please note that the block quotation immediately below is attributable to Simon

Wiesenthal, and that in it he demonstrates an awareness of the NKVD massacre of

Ukrainians, such that omitting mention of this massacre on your 23Oct94 60 Minutes

broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, must be considered not an oversight, but a

willful suppression of relevant information:

(1) Thousands of detainees were shot dead.

When the German attack came on 22 June the Soviets had no time to

take with them the people they had locked up. So they simply

killed them. Thousands of detainees were shot dead in their cells

by the retreating Soviets. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not

Vengeance, 1989, p. 35)

(2) The NKVD burned prisons with prisoners in them.

While the movement to the East was taking place, the NKVD carried

out mass arrests and executions, chiefly of Ukrainians – especially

those who tried to avoid evacuation. In the jails most prisoners

whose period of imprisonment was more than three years were shot;

others were evacuated if possible. In several cities the NKVD

burned prisons with prisoners in them. (Volodymyr Kubijovyc,

editor, Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, University of Toronto

Press, Toronto, 1963, Volume I, p. 878, Vsevolod Holubnychy and H.

M. wrote this section)

(3) Succeeded in annihilating some 10,000 political prisoners.

The Bolsheviks succeeded in annihilating some 10,000 political

prisoners in Western Ukraine before and after the outbreak of

hostilities (massacres took place in the prisons in Lviv, Zolochiv,

Rivne, Dubno, Lutsk, etc.). (Volodymyr Kubijovyc, editor, Ukraine:

A Concise Encyclopaedia, University of Toronto Press, Toronto,

Volume 1, p. 886)

(4) Mainly members of the city's [Lviv's] intelligentsia.

Before fleeing the German advance the Soviet occupational regime

murdered thousands of Ukrainian civilians, mainly members of the

city's [Lviv's] intelligentsia. (Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volume

3, p. 222)

(5) NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en masse.

The Soviets' hurried retreat had tragic consequences for thousands

of political prisoners in the jails of Western Ukraine. Unable to

evacuate them in time, the NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en

masse during the week of 22-29 June 1941, regardless of whether

they were incarcerated for major or minor offenses. Major

massacres occurred in Lviv, Sambir, and Stanyslaviv in Galicia,

where about 10,000 prisoners died, and in Rivne and Lutsk in

Volhynia, where another 5000 perished. Coming on the heels of the

mass deportations and growing Soviet terror, these executions added

greatly to the West Ukrainians' abhorrence of the Soviets. (Orest

Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, 1994, p. 461)

(6) Liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck.

Right after the entry we were shown 2,400 dead bodies of Ukrainians

liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck at the city jail

of Lemberg [Lviv] by the Soviets prior to their marching off.

(Hans Frank, In the Face of the Gallows, p. 406)

(7) The city stank.

In Lvov, several thousand prisoners had been held in three jails.

When the Germans arrived on 29 June, the city stank, and the

prisons were surrounded by terrified relatives. Unimaginable

atrocities had occurred inside. The prisons looked like

abattoirs. It had taken the NKVD a week to complete their gruesome

task before they fled. (Gwyneth Hughes and Simon Welfare, Red

Empire: The Forbidden History of the USSR, 1990, p. 133)

(8) Many of them were found mutilated.

We learned that, before the Russian troops had left, a very great

number of Lemberg [Lviv] citizens, Ukrainians and Polish

inhabitants of other towns and villages had been killed in this

prison and in other prisons. Furthermore, there were many corpses

of German men and officers, among them many Air Corps officers, and

many of them were found mutilated. There was a great bitterness

and excitement among the Lemberg population against the Jewish

sector of the population. (Erwin Schulz, from May until 26

September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a subunit of

Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The Holocaust:

Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New York, 1982,

Volume 18, p. 18)

(9) The killed people in Lemberg [Lviv] amounted to about 5,000.

On the next day, Dr. RASCH informed us to the effect that the

killed people in Lemberg [Lviv] amounted to about 5,000. It has

been determined without any doubt that the arrests and killings had

taken place under the leadership of Jewish functionaries and with

the participation of the Jewish inhabitants of Lemberg. That was

the reason why there was such an excitement against the Jewish

population on the part of the Lemberg citizens. (Erwin Schulz,

from May until 26 September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a

subunit of Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The

Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New

York, 1982, Volume 18, p. 18)

(10) Hardly 20% of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained.

Chief of Einsatzgruppe B reports that Ukrainian insurrection

movements were bloodily suppressed by the NKVD on June 25, 1941 in

Lvov. About 3,000 were shot by NKVD. Prison burning. Hardly 20%

of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained. (Operational Situation

Report USSR No. 10, July 2, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel

Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports:

Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign

Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New

York, 1989, p. 2)

(11) The corpses are dreadfully mutilated.

Location: Lvov

According to reliable information, the Russians, before

withdrawing, shot 30,000 inhabitants. The corpses piled up and

burned at the GPU prisons are dreadfully mutilated. The population

is greatly excited: 1,000 Jews have already been forcefully

gathered together. (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 11, July

3, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The

Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi

Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943,

Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 4)

(12) The prisons in Lvov were crammed with the bodies of murdered

Ukrainians.

Location: Zviahel (Novograd-Volynski)

[...]

Before leaving, the Bolsheviks, together with the Jews,

murdered several Ukrainians; as an excuse, they used the attempted

Ukrainian uprising of June 25, 1941, which tried to free their

prisoners.

According to reliable information, about 20,000 Ukrainians have

disappeared from Lvov, 80% of them belonging to the intelligentsia.

The prisons in Lvov were crammed with the bodies of murdered

Ukrainians. According to a moderate estimate, in Lvov alone

3-4,000 persons were either killed or deported.

In Dobromil, 82 dead bodies were found, 4 of them Jews. The

latter were former Bolsheviki informers who had been killed because

of their complicity in this act. Near Dobromil an obsolete salt

mine pit was discovered. It was completely filled with dead

bodies. In the immediate neighborhood, there is a 6X15m mass

grave. The number of those murdered in the Dobromil area is

estimated to be approximately several hundred.

In Sambor on June 26, 1941, about 400 Ukrainians were shot by

the Bolsheviks. An additional 120 persons were murdered on June

27, 1941. The remaining 80 prisoners succeeded in overpowering the

Soviet guards, and fled. [...]

As early as 1939, a larger number of Ukrainians was shot, and

1,500 Ukrainians as well as 500 Poles were deported to the east.

Russians and Jews committed these murders in very cruel ways.

Bestial mutilations were daily occurrences. Breasts of women and

genitals of men were cut off. Jews have also nailed children to

the wall and then murdered them. Killing was carried out by shots

in the back of the neck. Hand grenades were frequently used for

these murders.

In Dobromil, women and men were killed with blows by a hammer

used to stun cattle before slaughter.

In many cases, the prisoners must have been tortured cruelly:

bones were broken, etc. In Sambor, the prisoners were gagged and

thus prevented from screaming during torture and murder. The Jews,

some of whom also held official positions, in addition to their

economic supremacy, and who served in the entire Bolshevik police,

were always partners in these atrocities.

Finally, it was established that seven [German] pilots who had

been captured were murdered. Three of them were found in a Russian

military hospital where they had been murdered in bed by shots in

the abdomen. [...]

[...] Prior to their withdrawal, the Bolsheviks shot 2,800 out

of 4,000 Ukrainians imprisoned in the Lutsk prison. According to

the statement of 19 Ukrainians who survived the slaughter with more

or less serious injuries, the Jews again played a decisive part in

the arrests and shooting. [...]

The investigations at Zlochev proved that the Russians, prior

to their withdrawal, arrested and murdered indiscriminately a total

of 700 Ukrainians, but, nevertheless, included the entire [local]

Ukrainian intelligentsia. (Operational Situation Report USSR No.

24, July 16, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel

Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches

of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July

1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 29-33)

(13) Ukrainians thrown into cauldrons of boiling water.

Location: Pleskau [Pskov] [...]

The population is in general convinced that it is mostly the

Jews who should be held responsible for the atrocities that are

committed everywhere. [...]

As it was learned that the Russians before they left have

either deported the Ukrainian intelligentsia, or executed them,

that is, murdered them, it is assumed that in the last days before

the retreat of the Russians, about 100 influential Ukrainians were

murdered [in Pleskau]. So far the bodies have not been found – a

search has been initiated.

About 100-150 Ukrainians were murdered by the Russians in

Kremenets. Some of these Ukrainians are said to have been thrown

into cauldrons of boiling water. This has been deduced from the

fact that the bodies were found without skin when they were

exhumed. [...]

[...] Before leaving Dubno, the Russians, as they had done in

Lvov, committed extensive mass-murder.

[...] Before their flight [from Tarnopol], as in Lvov and

Dubno, the Russians went on a rampage there. Disinterments

revealed 10 bodies of German soldiers. Almost all of them had

their hands tied behind their backs with wire. The bodies revealed

traces of extremely cruel mutilations such as gouged eyes, severed

tongues and limbs.

The number of Ukrainians who were murdered by the Russians,

among them women and children, is set finally at 600. Jews and

Poles were spared by the Russians. The Ukrainians estimate the

total number of [Tarnopol] victims since the occupation of the

Ukraine by the Russians at about 2,000. The planned deportation of

the Ukrainians already started in 1939. There is hardly a family

in Tarnopol from which one or several members have not

disappeared. [...] The entire Ukrainian intelligentsia is

destroyed. Since the beginning of the war, 160 members of the

Ukrainian intelligentsia were either murdered or deported.

Inhabitants of the town had observed a column of about 1,000

civilians driven out of town by police and army early in the

morning of July 1, 1941.

As in Lvov, torture chambers were discovered in the cellars of

the Court of Justice. Apparently, hot and cold showers were also

used here (as in Lemberg [Lviv]) for torture, as several bodies

were found, totally naked, their skin burst and torn in many

places. A grate was found in another room, made of wire and set

above the ground about 1m in height, traces of ashes were found

underneath. A Ukrainian engineer, who was also to be murdered but

saved his life by smearing the blood of a dead victim over his

face, reports that one could also hear screams of pain from women

and girls. (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 28, July 20,

1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The

Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi

Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943,

Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p.38-40)

(14) Had their noses, ears, tongues and even genitals cut away.

F. Fedorenko

MY TESTIMONY

When the bolsheviks retreated before the German onslaught in

the Second World War they took care in advance not to leave any

prisoners behind when the Germans arrived.

The prisoners were driven, en masse, under heavy NKVD guard

deep into Russia or Siberia, day and night. Many of them were so

tired that they could go no further. These were shot without

compunction where they fell. Terrible things happened then.

Sometimes, wives recognized their husbands among the evacuees, as

the prisoners were being driven through the villages. There was

great despair when they saw their loved ones taken under the

muzzles of automatic guns, to far, unknown places.

The villagers took care of those who did not die at once from

the NKVD bullets, but this was a very dangerous thing to do before

all the bolsheviks cleared out.

But the NKVD could not evacuate all the prisoners, there were

so many arrests, and jails were replenished constantly. In such a

case the NKVD, before making a hasty retreat, would murder the

prisoners in their cells.

I recall that when the Germans came, in the fall of 1941, to a

little town, Chornobil, on the Prypyat River, 62 miles west of

Kiev, 52 corpses of recently murdered people, slightly covered with

earth, were found in the prison yard.

These corpses had their hands tied at the back with wire; some

had their backs flayed, others had gouged eyes or nails driven into

their heels; still others had their noses, ears, tongues and even

genitals cut away. Instruments of torture which the communists

used were found in the dungeon of the prison.

Many of the tortured people were identified because they were

mostly farmers from the local collectives who had been arrested by

the NKVD for some unknown reason.

For instance, one girl (whose name I cannot recall now) from

the village of Zallissya, a mile and a quarter from Chornobil, was

arrested because one day she failed to go to dig trenches. All

were compelled at that time, to dig anti-tank trenches. The girl

was sick but there was no doctor to examine her and the NKVD

arrested her, never to return.

Two days later, when the Germans arrived, she was found among

the fifty-two corpses. (F. Fedorenko, My Testimony, in The Black

Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of

Victims of Russian Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, pp. 97-98)

(15) Executed 180 persons.

Andriy Vodopyan

CRIME IN STALINE

In this city in the NKVD prison factory the communists executed

180 persons and buried them in two holes dug in the prison yard.

The corpses were liberally treated with unslaked lime, especially

the faces.

My brother was sentenced to three months in jail for coming

late to work. After serving 18 days in the factory prison he was

set free, and a month later was drafted to the Red Army because

this was in July 1941.

Later, his wife and my mother found him among the corpses,

identifying him by the left hand finger, underwear and papers he

had on him.

This atrocity came to light when prisoners who remained alive

were liberated. They had also a very close call. Six days before

the arrival of the German troops they heard muffled shots.

The prison was secretly mined by NKVD agents in preparation for

the German invaders. (Andriy Vodopyan, Crime in Staline, in The

Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of

Victims of Russian Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 121)

(16) Had their breasts cut off.

Yuriy Dniprovy

INNOCENT VICTIMS

In the little town of Zolotnyky in the Ternopil region the

bolsheviks murdered a captain of the former Ukrainian Galician Army

(UHA) of 1918-1922, Mr. Dankiw, and clerks of the Ukrainian

cooperative store, the sisters Magdalene, Sophia and Clementine

Husar from the suburb of Vaha. Clementine and Magdalene were

tortured in a beastly manner and had their breasts cut off.

Other people executed at that time were: Slavko Demyd, Yosyp

Vozny, Vasyl Burbela, Zynoviy Kushniryna, Pavlo Kushniryna and a

non-commissioned officer of the UHA, Mr. Tsiholsky. (Yuriy

Dniprovy, Innocent Victims, in The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A

White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist

Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 122)

(17) The chopped bones and flesh of the victims fell into the sewers.

P. K.

THE INFERNAL DEVICE OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS

(By an eyewitness)

In the year 1942, when the Red Army, harassed by the German

divisions, retreated from Katerynodar (Krasnodar), the regional

NKVD division evacuated all the prisoners and sent them in the

direction of Novorossiysk. The railway line between Katerynodar

and the station of Krymska was jammed by nearly two hundred freight

boxcars filled to capacity with political prisoners.

Suspecting that all these prisoners might fall into German

hands the Russian NKVD men, as a precautionary measure, poured

gasoline on the cars and let them burn.

Thus a few thousand people perished in inhuman torture merely

because they were suspected of anti-communism.

When the Germans entered Katerynodar they found in the regional

divisional building of the NKVD in Sinny Bazar, a horrible torture

chamber. In the vault of this building there was a dark passage

which ended with a wooden platform which dipped down at a sharp

angle. Right underneath it there was a machine which resembled a

straw chopper. It was a disk equipped with a system of big knives

that revolved at great speed. It was powered by a motor.

After questioning, the innocent victims were driven by the NKVD

agents towards the wooden platform and rolled under the knives of

the hellish meatchopper. The chopped bones and flesh of the

victims fell into the sewers and were carried away with a stream of

sewage into the river Kuban.

Having discovered this horrible place, the Germans gave

permission to all who wished to view this inhuman device.

Thousands of people visited the place, among them the author of

these lines.

Other nations direct their talents towards the discovery of

better medicines, new materials, better means of communication to

make living conditions better. The Russian people are using all

their talents for the production of machines and new methods of

mass murder and torture. (P. K., The infernal device of the