Kindrat Poluvedko. The Arrest in Kharkiv as an Echo of the High-Profile Murder in Rotterdam

Thanks to declassified documents, earlier it was possible to trace in detail the role of nkvd officer Pavel Sudoplatov and agent “Lebed” (Vasyl Khomyak) in the murder of OUN leader Yevhen Konovalets. The discovery and analysis of the multi-volume “Pavlo” case in the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine allows us to learn more about the involvement in the “Stavka” special operation of another nkvd agent– Kindrat Poluvedko.

Besides, the answers to the question of why exactly the Gestapo arrested him in 1942 are becoming clearer – whether for his active participation in the OUN in occupied Kharkiv or for his involvement in the assassination of Ye. Konovalets on May 23, 1938.

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