Crimes of Lazar Kaganovich in Ukraine

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1994.

The documentary film "Kaganovich's Domino" is dedicated to the activities of Stalin's emissary, head of the Communist Party of Ukraine Lazar Kaganovich in Ukraine.

On the video: black-and-white chronicle, speech from the podium by Lazar Kaganovich, criticizing the leadership; sensitive content, photos from Kaganovich's funeral, daughter Maya Kaganovich, coffin with the body in the crematorium hall; biography of Kaganovich, chronicle of 1928, military columns at the parade in Kharkiv, a girl dancing with a Red Army soldier in the square, Red Army soldiers dancing in the square; problems of the "Ukrainization" of Ukraine, notes on the appointment of the People's Commissar of Education of the Ukrainian SSR Mykola Skrypnyk are read out; Stalinist repressions, Kaganovich's organization of the Holodomor in Ukraine; the order of the People's Commissar on the dismissal of Andriy Lozov from the post of head of the Poltava Locomotive Repair Plant, a page of the order with Kaganovich's signature; about arrests and executions; chronicle of 1947, Lazar Kaganovich walks along Khreshchatyk, Khrushchev and Kaganovich climb to the podium, Kyiv residents near the podium, a column of workers with a portrait of Kaganovich moves; skulls of those shot in Bykivna; chronicles, a rally of communists near the monument, a rally near the "Druzhba" arch; chronicle, awarding Kaganovich the Order of Lenin.

Comments: KGB head 1961–1967 Volodymyr Semichastny; peasant Olga Dikhtyarenko; Holodomor witness Dmytro Kolesnyk; eyewitnesses of Soviet repressions Ivan Shpak, Vasyl Kostenko; historian Mykhailo Braichevsky; poet Stepan Kryzhanivsky.

The film uses materials from the State Archive of Film, Photo and Audio Documents of Ukraine, the State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine, and the State Archive of Poltava.

Reference: Lazar Kaganovich is a Soviet party and statesman, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolsheviks) in 1925–1928 and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolsheviks) in 1947, one of Stalin's closest supporters, recognized by the Kyiv Court of Appeal as a co-organizer of the genocide of the Ukrainian people in 1932–1933. In Ukraine, he pursued a policy of repression against Ukrainian national communists and intellectuals, personally initiated the deadly measures of Bolshevik terror in December 1932, participated in the organization of the Holodomor by overstating grain procurement plans, and led the deportation of over 140,000 Ukrainians during "Operation Vistula" in 1947.