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Colonel Alfred Bizants. Notes from the Internal Prison of the mgb of the Ukrainian ssr

6/8/2026
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A case file has been discovered in the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine that historians had been searching for unsuccessfully for a long time, concerning an active participant in the Ukrainian liberation struggle of 1918–1920, Colonel of the UGA and the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, and one of the initiators and organizers of the formation of the “Halychyna” Division, Alfred Bizants. Actually, two case files. They shed light on some previously unknown circumstances of his arrest – in fact, his abduction by the soviet secret police in Vienna in 1945, his transfer, and his detention under investigation.

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