human rights abuses in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

On the issue of OUN – UPA losses in confrontation with sovietpunitive bodies (1944–1948): attempt of scientific analysis and reflection

The article raises issues about the credibility of bilateral losses in the confrontation with the Soviet repression machine, on the one hand, and the Ukrainian armed underground, on the other. Documents from the funds of the State Archives of the Russian Federation and Ukrainian sources of scientific, journalistic and memoir character were used. The own estimates of the irreversible losses of the Ukrainian side are proposed.