June 1941 is remembered to Western Ukraine not only for attack of Nazi Germany, but for the massacres committed allegedly by its state in rear. It is referred to hitherto unheard-of fact even in the practice of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the USSR – mass executions of political prisoners in the prisons of Western Ukraine during late June – early July 1941.

To get acquainted with the documents of that time and learn more about the crimes of “valiant fighters of the counterrevolution” of NKVD, descendants of whose now rule “bloody ball” in the occupied by Putin’s regime Ukrainian territories, you can on the site of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory.