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Measures of Soviet State Security authorities to discrime Symon Petliura, the head of the UPR’s sc (Ukrainian People’s Republic’s State Center)

Yaroslav Faizulin, Vasyl Yablonskyi
Retrieved from Volume 5, No. 2, 2020 Pages 149–181
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Abstract

The article analyzes the activities of the Soviet secret services to discredit the Ukrainian emigration government — the State Center of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in exile and personally its head Symon Petliura. The exile government of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, which stood on the positions of anti-communism and controlled the Ukrainian army interned in Polish camps, posed a real threat to the existence of the Bolshevik regime in Ukraine. Therefore, both the central Soviet government in Moscow and the government of the USSR under its control in Kharkiv made every effort to discredit the activities of Symon Petliura.One of the main directions of such subversive work against the Ukrainian emigration government was the activity of the Bolshevik secret services. The Chekists recruited an agency among Ukrainian servicemen and politicians close to the State Center. In particular, the GPU managed, due to the creation of a fictitious «Supreme Military Council», which allegedly operated on the territory of Ukraine, to take one of the popular military figures of the UPR army, Ataman Yurii Tiutiunyk, to the USSR. Yurii Tiutiunyk agreed to cooperate with the Bolshevik authorities and for more than a year, under the leadership of the GPU, conducted an intelligence game to attract allies and members of the UPR general staff (primarily general Oleksandr Udovychenko), to establish Symon Petliura’s connection with the Supreme Military Council. and discrediting the State Center of the Ukrainian People’s Republic before the governmental factors of the Poland and the governments of other states. Such work was not very successful, so the GPU resorted to declassifying its agent, using the fact of the transfer of the «Petliurist» general to demoralize Ukrainian politicians and the military in exile. This move was accompanied by a wide information campaign in the Soviet press and had a significant propaganda effect both in Ukraine and abroad. In the end, Yurii Tiutiunyk’s betrayal became one of the factors in the return of Ukrainians to the USSR and the weakening of the anti-Bolshevik movement.

Keywords

Symon Petliura; Yuriі Tiutiunyk; GPU; Partisan- insurgent headquarters; Ukrainian emigration; discrediting

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Suggested citation

Faizulin, Ya., & Yablonskyi, V. (2020). Measures of Soviet State Security authorities to discrime Symon Petliura, the head of the UPR’s sc (Ukrainian People’s Republic’s State Center). Society. Document. Communication, 5(2), 149-181.