![]() ![]() Some publications have already been digitized and are available online. Photo: SBU archiveįor an event, check the local newspapers and magazines for the relevant time period. It is also important to find out the place where the person was living at the time of their arrest, detention, or repression. Find out all possible variants of the first and last name: they could change, especially after the collapse of empires, changes in the borders of countries, regimes of occupation and administrative-territorial division. Ask relatives, friends, acquaintances, neighbors, local historians and old-timers. The basic information, which if lacking, prevents a personalized search consists of: surname, first name, patronymic, date and place of birth of the person you are interested in. This is in spite of the fact that these archives have already been granted a building, the property transfer has been completed, and the construction project has passed the state examination. In the budget prepared by the government for the creation of an archive of national memory for 2021, there are no funds at all. ![]() This year, as a result of sequestration, more than 99% of the funds for the construction of the archive was directed for other needs. However, the fate of this major project is questionable. It is obvious that Moscow will not release it for the foreseeable future.” The archive of KGB files is larger than ours only in Russia. ” will be a Mecca for Soviet intelligence researchers from all over the world,” says the head of the Institute of National memory.- The archive will collect the largest collection of released documents of the Soviet repressive organs and make them accessible to all. He says the SBU should only keep the SBU’s archives. Photo: Īnton Drobovych agrees with Andriy Kogut. This idea is already being implemented in the National Memory Archives. Transferring all Soviet affairs to an institution outside the security forces would break the chain of toxic continuity. After all, “everything that is stored in the department, employees consider ‘their,’ part of their history.” The democratization of secret services and police cannot function properly if they protect documents containing information about massive human rights violations and continue to use methods from the archives of their predecessors. Therefore, they remained in the Security Service of Ukraine, which received from Parliament material and technical support of the Soviet Special Service, including the premises where the KGB archives were kept.Īccording to Andriy Kogut, the KGB archives are toxic to the SBU. However, the transfer of the remaining funds to the KGB was prevented by the lack of space in state archives. They received almost one and a half million “filtration cases” against people who were forcibly brought to Germany and other countries of the Axis coalition during World War II. On September 9, 1991, a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was issued, according to which the materials of the KGB should be transferred to the State Archives. ![]()
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