Abstract:The purpose of the article is, on the basis of documents that relate to Czechoslovaks arrested by the Soviet authorities, executed, or sent to the Gulag, to trace their fate and analyse the base for creating the “image of a criminals”, who was punished despite their origin or views. This work is an attempt to analyse the documents we have, obtained from Ukrainian archives. The research methodology is based on an analytical approach to specific cases, selected for certain periods or types of punishment. In part… Show more
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