«Процес 59-ти» в інтернет-публікаціях

The «Process of 59» is a resonant event in the history of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, which arouses the constant interest of both ideological followers and enemies. Its prerequisites, course and results are generally well known, but, unfortunately, in the coverage of many issues of the «process» a lot of inaccuracies, contradictory statements, and mistakes have accumulated that hinder its understanding. Their clarification is one of the tasks of the article.

It briefly describes the circumstances of the arrest of the Regional Executive of the OUN in September–October 1940, as well as the specific features of the court. It has been found out who the Lviv Regional Court sentenced to be shot on January 15–18, 1941, and who to imprisonment. It has been specified how many participants of the «Process of 59» and who exactly received the sentence of «execution» without changes, how many, who and when were executed. It has been specified how many participants of the «Process of 59» and who exactly received the sentence of «execution» without changes, how many, who and when were executed. A number of statements were corrected, such as «Among the accused were 37 young men and 22 girls from 15 to 30 years old», «from 16 to 30 years old», «the youngest Marusa Nakonechnaya was no more than 15 years old», and the oldest Klyachkivsky was 30 years old; the statement «among those arrested were also non-members of the OUN» was questioned. It is emphasized that although the participants of the «Process of 59» were «Mostly ... students, as well as high school students and school graduates», the leaders of the Regional Executive (KE) of the OUN were brought to the bench, and most of the participants of its youth organizations performed important tasks. It is shown that the Lviv Regional Court is a massacre not only of the youth wing of the OUN. Almost all KE arrested by the NKVD were shot. For the first time in Ukrainian historiography, the reasons for replacing execution with deprivation of liberty for a number of convicts are presented on the basis of the materials of the KE OUN case, which have been put into scientific circulation and are kept in the Gosudarstevenny arhive Российской Федерации (GARF). The statement expressed in Wikipedia is called into question, that due to the fact that before the court session, the case of Hrytselyak was separated into a separate proceeding, therefore the process actually became the «process of the 59th».

«Process of 59», OUN, internet-publications, KE OUN, Lviv Regional Court January 15–18, 1941, OUN students, convicted, pardoned, shot.