СПЕЦІАЛЬНІ ЗАХОДИ ОРГАНІВ МДБ–КДБ ПРОТИ ЧЛЕНІВ ОУН НА ЗАПОРІЖЖІ В 1950–1958 РОКАХ

In this paper, the author reveals special measures the Soviet state security bodies used within the time frame of 1950–1958 for detecting the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalist members who used to act in Zaporizhzhia oblast during the German occupation period. The research shows analysis of separate recorded cases and agential projects whose objects were the OUN members or ones suspected in underground movements. In this paper, the author stated that the OUN members who operated in the oblast during 1941–1944 avoiding Soviet repressions were a matter of interest for the KGB as potential agents or incorporated towards Ukrainian nationalist environment concerning emigration to the Western countries. It is necessary to highlight that Soviet state security bodies did not clearly understand the nature of the affiliation to the Andrii Melnyk and Stepan Bandera's organizations while training members for the Ukrainian underground movement. Those circumstances inserted confusion in the secret measures development and realization processes, which, therefore, were reactions to the directions of the supreme authorities. The paper establishes that the OUN marching groups members, who were organizers of the Zaporizhzhia nationalist underground movement in the German occupation period, were operated apart from local OUN members even though their activity used to have similar values and objectives. In the second half of the 1950s, the state security service officials paid individual attention to those OUN members who had returned to Zaporizhzhia oblast after serving a sentence or abridgment of sentence time. Some members' activity and non-hidden anti-Soviet viewpoint gave reasons to the KGB authorities to consider them potential organizers of a new network of Ukrainian Nationalists. Therefore, despite 15-year farness from the primary law procedures under the OUN members in Zaporizhzhia, the latter was a matter of operative concern to secret service authorities for years to come.