Trial of five members of the OUN: 1969

The audio includes a fragment of the trial of five OUN members: testimonies of the defendants and witnesses.

Note: In October-December 1969, an open trial of a "group of national bandits" - members of the UPA, five "Banderites" - took place in the Palace of Culture of the sugar factory in the village of Krasne, Lviv region. Among the defendants: Volodymyr Oliynyk ("Holodomor"), Andriy Moroz ("Bayrak2"), Pavlo Chuchman ("Benito"), Stepan Chuchman ("Bereza"), and Leontiy Potsiluyko ("Yastrub"). They were accused of "destroying more than 200 peaceful Soviet communities, burning thousands of peasant farmsteads and destroying several villages" under the leadership of Dmytro Kupiak ("Slavko Veslyar", "Klei"). Fifty victims and 150 witnesses to the "crimes" testified at the trial.

All the defendants were found guilty. Volodymyr Oliynyk and Pavlo Chuchman were sentenced to 15 years in strict regime colonies with exile to remote areas of the Soviet Union, Andriy Moroz to 15 years, but without exile, and Stepan Chuchman and Leontiy Potsiluyko to 14 years in a colony, without exile. A criminal case was also initiated in absentia against Dmytro Kupiak, who was already living abroad at the time.

The material was digitized by the team of the "House of Sound" department of Lviv Radio with the assistance of the Department of Composition and the Problematic Research Laboratory of Musical Ethnology of the Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy.

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