SECURITY AGENCY SURVEILLANCE OF THE GREEK CATHOLIC UNDERGROUND AMONG THE SPECIAL RESETTLERS OF SOVIET KAZAKHSTAN (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE AGENT FILE ‘REEFS’)
Journal: Journal of history
Year: 2025

The article is devoted to the history and social memory of the Greek Catholic underground, which emerged in the Kazakh SSR after the mass deportations from Western Ukraine, carried out in the period 1940-1952, especially the operation ‘West’ in 1947. The underground, operating initially without priests, then, after their release from prison during Khrushchev's amnesty in 1954-1956, was formed by released clergymen of the greek catholic churches banned in the Soviet Union: the Ukrainian Greek Cat