I want to return to the memorial plaque in the center of Rivne, dedicated 8 "glorious fighters for the honor and freedom of Ukraine", hanged in January 1945 of the year.
Except Nazi collaborator Stepan Trofimchuk, the names of the OUN-UPA fighters are immortalized on the board * Mykola Slobodyuk, Vasyl Slobodyuk, Vasyl Podolets, Oleksandr Hrytsyuk. How did these people deserve such an honor??
From the interrogation of Mykola Slobodyuk: "In September 1943 under the leadership of Slobodyuk Mykola in. Dyadkovichi strangled the Zavada family in quantity 5 human (husband, wife and daughter with husband and 12 year old granddaughter). The corpses of the family were thrown into the well of the Kurovsky estate. On the same night, the specified group strangled the family of a Pole in the same place., who had a street nickname "Kopach" in the amount 5 man - husband, wife and three young children.
Late September or early October 1943 Slobodyuk Vasily, Slobodyuk Vasily and I, accompanied by 4 participants in the Security Council. Dyadkovichi went to the 70-year-old Neverova, by nationality Russian with that, to kill her and those living with her.
In the house we found, except Neverova, her son. I strangled my son, and someone from the rest of the group an old woman. We took the corpses to the Kurovsky estate and threw them into the well. Valuable property was taken away.
December 1943 we arrived at. Omelyan and took a Ukrainian family of three with them to the Zaretsky forest (husband, wife and two year old). We put this family in our "prison", and two days later, one of the indicated persons shot them.
From the interrogation of Vasily Slobodyuk: "In November 1943 in with. Dyadkovichi were detained by members of the Security Council in one night 6 Soviet prisoners of war, who escaped from the German camps and temporarily lived in the specified village. All the detainees were taken to the well in the Kurovsky estate and shot..
I shot one, Slobodyuk Nikolai shot two, Slobodyuk Yakov shot one, Podolets Vasily Leontievich shot one, Slobodyuk Vasily Dmitrievich shot one. We undressed the corpses and threw them into the well.
In November 1943 from the SB district was delivered 6 men aged from 30 to 35 years, Where are they from and why were they arrested?, I do not know. We took them to the well and shot them all. I shot one, Slobodyuk Nikolay two, Podolets Vasily two, "Swan" from the district security service - one. Then we undressed the corpses and threw them into the well.
In November 1943 the commandant of the Security Service of the Slobodyuk subdistrict Vasyl in the village of Dyadkovichi detained one unknown woman, who arrived in the village to exchange things for food. Slobodyuk, on his cart, took her to the well and shot her there in the presence of Podolets Vasyl, and threw the corpse into the well.
In the beginning of November 1943 year commandant of the UPA sabotage group- Kukhar-Lukashchuk Vladimir Petrovich was taken into the forest by a zavapteka with. Uncles named Nikolay, what is his last name and what is his nationality, I do not know. What fate befell him I do not know, but i guess, that he was killed.
A month later, members of the Security Council - Slobodyuk Vasily and Podolets Vasily took away the pharmacist who replaced this, young apothecary, looks like years 22, shot her, and the body was thrown into the well".
From the interrogation of Alexander Gritsyuk: "At the beginning of January 1944 members of the district Security Service detained three captured Red Army soldiers in. Small Omelyans, and two captured officers of the Red Army in. Big Omelyany. The detainees were taken to. Uncles, where we were with "Oak" at that time. "Oak" ordered me to take them to the indicated well and shoot them..
Several Security Council members surrounded the prisoners and led, i followed them. Coming to the well I have them all, one by one, shot with a rifle. Before the execution, the detainees tried to escape and cursed us, but were beaten with rifle butts. Undressing corpses, we threw them down the well.
January averages 1944 years in the village of Yasennichi I killed, at the behest of Oak, a resident of the said village 19-20, Ukrainian by nationality. Murder I committed by strangulation with faith ("traveling"). The body of a villager was buried at the scene of the murder.
Shortly thereafter, in. Grushvits, on the orders of "Oak", I shot an unknown man aged 38-40 years.
I buried the body there., at the scene of the murder. Then in s. Grushvitsa "Oak" ordered me to kill a peasant aged about 40 years. I took him aside and shot him, but didn't kill, but only wounded in the hand. Peasant, without waiting for the second shot, rushed to run, I sent him a few bullets after him, but missed. For this case, "Oak" ordered to give me 20 ramrod.
In the end of January 1944 same with. Grushvitsa I took part in the murder of one woman, throwing a noose around the neck, which was tightened by the participant of the regional SB "Nechay" and "Kruk", I don't know their last names, nor do I know the name of my victim. We buried the corpse of the strangled woman in the ground outside the village..
During the investigation, the "heroes" showed, that they were supposed to "destroy all enemies of the UPA: Poles, chekhov, Jewish, Komsomol members, Red Army officers, police officers and Ukrainians sympathetic to the Soviet regime”.
Ammunition fighters had to save, and to kill by "confusing" - when two people tighten the rope around the victim's neck in different directions. The corpses were dumped into a well near the village of Dyadkovichi.
In summer 1991 raised from the Kurovsky well 67 bodies killed by "heroes". Flowers are being laid at the memorial plaque to the killers in Rivne. AT 2015 year these people were recognized as fighters for independence, and 2018 war veterans.
*an organization banned in Russia
Eduard Dolinsky
