View Point of NKVD on the Activities of Ukrainian Companies on the Territory of the General Governor of Poland in the Border Yone of the BSSR in 1940

Abstract

Valuable information on the activities of "Ukrainian nationalists" contained in intelligent sources of NKVD in UkrSSR about the activities of German intelligence and border police, contrrevolutional formations on the territory of the General Governorship of Poland close to the border of the BSSR. They include statistics on the number of Ukrainians, describe Ukrainian foreign press. NKVD interested in Ukrainian organizations UNO, OUN and other, in activities of some of its activists not only in the Podlasie, but also partly in Holm, Lemko areas and ,Czechoslovakia. The reports show attempt to analyze the methods of German intelligence to attract Ukrainians on the side of Germany. Despite the obvious bias of intelligent reports, they contain valuable information on the activities of Ukrainian activists and Ukrainian organizations in the border area on the eve of the war in Germany and the Soviet Union.

Keywords: NKVD, Ukrainian Organizations UNO, OUN, the Byelorussian SSR, the General Governor of Poland, Podlasie, Holm, Lemko, the German Intelligence Service.