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| They are so afraid. Strike at the Shukhevych Museum |
| 2024-01-03 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Korrespondent] In Lvov, the museum of Roman Shukhevych, the main commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, burned to the ground due to a Russian attack; the damage was estimated at more than 2 million hryvnia. Russia continues to fight not only with peaceful Ukrainian cities, but also with museums. On New Year's Eve in Lviv, debris from a Russian drone fell on the museum of Roman Shukhevych, the main commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Shukhevych's memorial items were lost: a table, armchairs, a piano, a bust of Shukhevych and a sculpture of Stepan Bandera. LEGENDARY HOUSE The house-museum housed the last headquarters of the main commander of the UPA. There were five thematic rooms on the ground floor. The second floor reproduced the life of Shukhevych during his stay in this underground apartment (spring 1948–1950). An important historical object of the house was a cache located at the entrance to the attic, in fact, a partition that separated the attic from the room with a double plank wall. The entrance to the hiding place was from the landing. It was possible to get into it from a separate entrance. It was this entrance that Roman Shukhevych used, who entered into the last battle with MGB units on March 5, 1950. The staircase was kept unchanged. The interior of the hiding place and the entrance to it have been restored, preserving all the proportions and originality of the building. Actually, the house itself was the most valuable monument, but now it is gone. “The most valuable monument is a destroyed house. Most of the main fund was taken from the museum at the beginning of the war, and it survived. There were some things in the museum that were oversized,” said Pyotr Slobodyan, deputy director of the Lviv Historical Museum, of which the Shukhevych Museum is a department . HISTORICAL EVENTS On March 5, 1950, people from the USSR Ministry of State Security cordoned off this very house in Belogoroshche, which at that time was still a village near Lvov. More than 700 soldiers of the internal troops were involved in Operation Wolf (as the general-cornet was called in KGB documents). Trying to break out of encirclement, Shukhevych killed a Soviet major. After that, he was shot through with machine gun fire. The commander's liaison Galina Didik tried to take poison, but she was rescued and sentenced to 25 years in the camps. In the report to the Minister of State Security of the USSR, Shukhevych’s last battle looked like this: “Having entered the house, our group began an operation, during which Shukhevych was asked to surrender. In response to this, Shukhevych offered armed resistance, opened fire from a machine gun, with which he killed Major Revenko, the head of the department Directorate of the 2-N MGB of the Ukrainian SSR - and, despite the measures taken to capture him alive, he was killed during a shootout." The liquidation of one of the leaders of the nationalist underground was preceded by a search operation that lasted almost 6 years. SYMBOLIC BLOW The destruction of the Roman Shukhevych Museum on Stepan Bandera’s birthday is considered by many to be an attempt at a “symbolic murder of national memory,” the history and memory of Ukraine. The mayor of Lvov, Andrey Sadovy, believes that “after the victory” the museum will be restored and it will become larger. “There will definitely be a part dedicated to our struggle today. The victorious struggle for independence, of which Shukhevych, Bandera, Konovalets, thousands and millions of Ukrainians are a part,” Sadovyi is convinced. |
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