You're reading: Rukh presents book about KGB’s fight against Ukrainian liberation movement

The People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) in Kyiv on Friday presented The Invaders without Masks, a book based on a document from the archives of the NKVD, the Soviet police agency.

"It is interesting that this book is based only on one document from the KGB archive. This is a report by the Ministry of the State Security of the USSR [Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic] of September 25, 1949. This document, which is an instruction of the fight by then power against the Ukrainian national liberation movement, includes interesting documents, interesting facts that fully refute the so-called punitive function of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, in particular, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army," leader of the People’s Movement and MP Borys Tarasiuk said during the presentation of the book.

According to him, historians, experts and the public have already shown interest in the book.

Tarasiuk noted that the book has been prepared by an information and analytical group of the People’s Movement of Ukraine.

"This document and this book are important for Ukrainian public and political opinion," he said.