Yevhen Konovalets. The story of an unsolved murder. A deadly box of chocolates from the KGB
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The story of the murder of OUN leader Yevhen Konovalets has long been based on incomplete data, Soviet disinformation, guesses and assumptions.
In the book ‘Yevhen Konovalets. The Story of an Unsolved Murder’, written by well-known experts on the history of the Ukrainian liberation struggle during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1950 Oleksandr Kucheruk, Yurii Cherchenko, Mykhailo Kovalchuk, contains a huge number of documents related to the murder of Konovalets, which are published for the first time
For the first time, the declassified documents of the police investigation into the murder of OUN leader Yevhen Konovalets by Soviet NKVD agent Pavlo Sudoplatov, which for a long time could not get into the hands of Ukrainian historians, are published in a translation from the Dutch.
Who was Yevhen Konovalets? What happened on 23 May 1938 in Rotterdam?
Eyewitness accounts of the crime, the hidden history of the Soviet special operation and attempts to split the OUN, letters and articles from newspapers of the time allow us to recreate the last years of the life of the Ukrainian military leader and founder of the OUN.
This was stated by one of the authors of the book, Oleksandr Kucheruk, head of the department of the National Museum of History of Ukraine, director of the Oleh Olzhych Library, during the presentation of the book ‘Yevhen Konovalets. The Story of an Unsolved Murder’ in Lviv's “Ye” Bookstore.
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