U līsakh Lemkīvshchini
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2021
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First Published: New York, 1976. The author of the book is a rifleman Ivan Dmytryk, a soldier of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, from the hut of Commander Ren, who operated in the Lemko region in 1944-1947. The author recorded his memories now after arriving in the West in 1947-1949, when all the events were still firmly entrenched in memory. He described them sincerely, unpretentiously, as he saw and experienced. However, he watched them through the eyes of a young man and from the position of an ordinary shooter. It is possible that in some cases, if the commander, who, of course, knew and saw more than the shooter, told about those events, he would give them a slightly different interpretation. But Ivan Dmitry does not try to comment. He just tells. And this is the greatest value of his memories. Ivan Dmytryk talks mostly about his hundred (the number of her field post office was "U-94"), although he does not lack information about other UPA units that operated, if not constantly, then for some time, in the same area. The author begins the story from his first day in the ranks of the UPA. There is chaos on the land of Lemko - the Germans are retreating, the Soviet troops are advancing. Against the background of this chaos, the good organization and thoughtfulness of the UPA's actions contrast sharply. We see how hundreds of huts are formed, how they are provided with food, how preparations are made for crossing the front and the transition itself: from the camp on Beech Bird, two and a half thousand troops with a large convoy cross the front in three weeks without a single victim. The author argues that this transition was possible only thanks to the support of the Ukrainian population and the OUN intelligence service, which knew about every movement of the enemy.
