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Nationalist Ukrainian battalion “Sich Riflemen” Konovalets. Archive photo

In 1938, the Dutch police thought that the leader of the OUN was blown up by a bomb under the guise of a book.

MOSCOW, July 7 – RIA Novosti. In 1938, the Dutch police thought that Yevgeny Konovalets, the organizer and leader of the “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists” (OUN), * an important agent of Hitler’s intelligence, was destroyed by a bomb explosion and handed over to him. books – this is from documents declassified by the FSB in Primorye, which first met with the RIA Novosti.

Thursday marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Lieutenant General Pavel Sudoplatov, a legendary employee of the national state security agencies. A native of Melitopol made a great personal contribution to the fight against Ukrainian nationalism. It was he, acting under the pseudonym Valyuh, who on May 23, 1938, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, delivered to Konovalets a bomb skillfully made by Soviet special services and disguised as a box of chocolates with a Ukrainian pattern. , that the OUN leader admires.*

Published materials include photocopies of the journal Dalniy Vostok, published by the National Colony of Ukraine, an anti-Soviet organization founded in Japanese-occupied Manchuria.

In 1938, the magazine republished the “Communication of the Ukrainian nationalist press service” announcing the liquidation of Konovalets. In particular, chronological details of the events of that day are given, including the exact time of the bombing that destroyed the Konovalets, witness testimonies, the conclusions of the Rotterdam police, and versions suggested by the investigation by Ukrainian nationalists.

According to the press service, on Monday, May 23, 1938, at 11:16 am Konovalets arrived in Rotterdam by train and went from the station to the Central Hotel. As local police later learned, Konovalets left the hotel at 11:40 am and entered the Atlanta cafe on Rotterdam’s main street, Kolsingel.

“Here he waited until 12 o’clock and met a waiter serving the leader and a man in his 30s, who was quite accurately described by a stranger. The same waiter and two coffeehouse guests had obviously met the Leader at a table in the coffeehouse, a paper-wrapped He left a package and stayed with him for a short time,” it said. Five minutes later, the foreigner left the institution.

“With this package, the leader left the cafe and died as a result of the explosion of the bomb in the package, after walking a few steps,” the “press service” of the Ukrainian nationalists added.

According to OUN members*, the explosion occurred at 12:14 pm near the Lumiere cinema.

“Red-blue flames and black smoke were seen during the explosion,” the press release said. It was stated that Konovalets’ body was thrown onto the road. “Nothing remained of his right leg and left shoulder – they were shattered by a bomb. The rest of the body was horribly mutilated, with the exception of the head, which remained intact,” the paper said. It was reported that 4 randomly similar people were injured, and one of them was punctured by the watch that broke from Konovalets’ hand due to the violence of the explosion.

In the remains of the OUN * leader, they found a card from room 104 of the Central Hotel and a passport in the name of Josip Novak. “The leader had to travel under a false name because otherwise the terrible thing that happened in Rotterdam on May 23 would have happened much earlier,” the statement said.

The “press service”, many people fled to the place where the explosion occurred and trampled everything around, so it was difficult to determine the type of explosive later, the “press service” complained. What remained of Konovalets was taken to the morgue of the local hospital on the same street.

Over the next few hours, the police searched all city hotels and arrested Konovalets’ valet, Yaroslav Baranovsky. At the call of Konovalets, he flew to Rotterdam with a Czech passport named Ladislav Bor “for a joint meeting with a contact from the territory of eastern Ukraine” and had to call the OUN* leader in one of the following. Three hotels, including the center, ask Novak. Baranovsky immediately gave all the necessary evidence and identified the Konovalets in the murdered man.

“Baranovsky said that the real or fictitious name of the connection could be Valyukh and that it probably came by Soviet ship,” the press service said.

The Soviet ship “Menzhinsky” was in Rotterdam from 14:00 on 21 May to 18:30 on 24 May and stated in the communiqué that the Dutch police had not searched “for reasons still unknown”. It is symbolic that the Soviet ship was named after the former head of the Soviet special services, who once ordered the Chekists to work to suppress the terrorist acts of the OUN.*

Baranovsky told police that Konovalets met with Valiukh in Rotterdam in February of that year, after which he received some documents and a package containing Soviet literature from him, in return handing over nationalist propaganda literature to the contact.

Three days after the liquidation of Konovalets, his wife Olga, summoned by the police, flew to Rotterdam, who also identified her husband in the murdered man.

“According to the outcome of the Rotterdam police investigation, this “Valyukh” on behalf of the GPU gave the leader a hell machine, saying that these were books or something like that and promising to come later, or something like that,” he said.

Konovalets founded the OUN abroad in 1929.* Under his rule, the unpopular ideology of the Ukrainian nationalists was developed. It was under him that the ideology of militant anti-Semitism was promoted in the OUN *, the mass extermination of the Poles was planned, which later resulted in the Volyn massacre. A court in the USSR sentenced Konovalets to death in absentia for his direct participation in the massacre of workers at the Arsenal factory in Kiev, who had rebelled against the Ukrainian nationalist authorities in January 1918.

Since 1933, Konovalets and OUN * began to actively cooperate with the secret services of the Third Reich and received support from them. At the suggestion of the Nazis, the OUN * increased its combat capabilities to take Germany’s side in the war with the USSR. In 1938, the Soviet leadership instructed the state security agencies to liquidate the Konovalets in order to behead the OUN* and split the ranks of the Ukrainian nationalists.

As a result of the liquidation of the Konovalets, the OUN * split into two groups: one was headed by Stepan Bandera, the other Andrei Melnik. Bandera and Melnikovites were hostile to each other, mutual murders began, and the victims of these showdowns numbered in the hundreds.

Source: Ria

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