Liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church in Eastern and Central Europe. The ussr mgb’s Scenario

Based on declassified documents from the mgb/kgb of the ussr, the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine continues to publish materials on the 80th anniversary of the Lviv pseudo-council (March 8–10, 1946). They provide deeper insight into the stalinist regime’s special operations to liquidate the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) and absorb it into the russian orthodox church (roc).

Simultaneously with the liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Halychyna and Transcarpathia, the ussr mgb intensified its intelligence activities in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, where Greek Catholic parishes operated and Ukrainian clergymen found temporary refuge from persecution by the stalinist regime. Declassified documents from the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine show that the chekists, together with security officials from the then pro-soviet countries of Eastern and Central Europe, were putting pressure on the Ukrainian clergy and faithful, trying to accuse them of links with the UPA and the Ukrainian underground national liberation movement, in order to create an image of the Greek Catholic Church in the diaspora as a hostile or illegal structure and to eliminate it.

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