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NKVD special groups, the Glossary

The special groups of the NKVD for fighting against nationalists (Специальные группы НКВД по борьбе с националистами)The special groups of the NKVD are in the fight with nationalists, Ch.^[1]

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Axis powers

The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.

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Baltic states

The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west.

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Bukovina

BukovinaBukowina or Buchenland; Bukovina; Bukowina; Bucovina; Bukovyna; see also other languages.

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Carpatho-Ukraine or Carpathian Ukraine (Karpatska Ukraina) was an autonomous region, within the Second Czechoslovak Republic, created in December 1938 and renamed from Subcarpathian Rus', whose full administrative and political autonomy had been confirmed by constitutional law of 22 November 1938.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Eastern Galicia

Eastern Galicia (Skhidna Halychyna; Galicja Wschodnia; Ostgalizien) is a geographical region in Western Ukraine (present day oblasts of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil), having also essential historic importance in Poland.

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Guerrilla war in the Baltic states

The guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an insurgency waged by Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian) partisans against the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1956.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)

The Kingdom of Hungary (Magyar Királyság), referred to retrospectively as the Regency and the Horthy era, existed as a country from 1920 to 1946 under the rule of Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, who officially represented the Hungarian monarchy.

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Kingdom of Romania

The Kingdom of Romania (Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy that existed from 13 March (O.S.) / 25 March 1881 with the crowning of prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as King Carol I (thus beginning the Romanian royal family), until 1947 with the abdication of King Michael I and the Romanian parliament's proclamation of the Romanian People's Republic.

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Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University

Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University (Ukrainian: Волинський національний університет імені Лесі Українки) is a Ukrainian university in Lutsk, named after Lesya Ukrainka.

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Liberation movement

A liberation movement is an organization or political movement leading a rebellion, or a non-violent social movement, against a colonial power or national government, often seeking independence based on a nationalist identity and an anti-imperialist outlook.

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Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War)

The "little green men" (зелёные человечки; зелені чоловічки) were Russian soldiers who were masked and wore unmarked uniforms upon the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014. NKVD special groups and Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War) are False flag operations and Russian special forces operations.

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Lviv University of Trade and Economics

The Lviv University of Trade and Economics is a university in Lviv, Ukraine.

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Michał Vituška

Michal Apanasavič Vituška (Міхал Апанасавіч Вітушка; Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Виту́шко, Mikhail Afanasyevich Vitushko; Michał Wituszka; 5 November 1907 – 7 January 1945) was a Belarusian leader of the Black Cats, a unit of the SS-Jagdverbände, during World War II.

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Military operation

A military operation (op) is the coordinated military actions of a state, or a non-state actor, in response to a developing situation.

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Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (MVD; Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del SSSR) was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991.

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Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union)

The Ministry of State Security (Ministerstvo gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti), abbreviated as MGB (МГБ), was a ministry of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1953 which functioned as the country's secret police.

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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that partitioned between them or managed the sovereignty of the states in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946.

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Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists

The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN; Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv) was a Ukrainian nationalist organization established in 1929 in Vienna, uniting the Ukrainian Military Organization with smaller, mainly youth, radical nationalist right-wing groups. NKVD special groups and Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists are organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

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People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs units dressed as Ukrainian Insurgent Army fighters

During the Soviet struggle to establish control over Western Ukraine, NKVD units dressed as UPA fighters committed atrocities in order to demoralize the civilian population, and to turn the people against nationalist groups. NKVD special groups and People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs units dressed as Ukrainian Insurgent Army fighters are False flag operations and Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

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Politics of the Soviet Union

The political system of the Soviet Union took place in a federal single-party soviet socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the only party permitted by the Constitution.

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Public holidays in the Soviet Union

In the Soviet Union, public holidays were set at a state level by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Resistance movement

A resistance movement are Political Movements that tries to resist or overthrow a government or an occupying power, causing disruption and unrest in civil order and stability.

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Rivne

Rivne (Рівне) is a city in western Ukraine.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

Between 28 June and 3 July 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, following an ultimatum made to Romania on 26 June 1940 that threatened the use of force.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union

Seventeen days after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, the Soviet Union entered the eastern regions of Poland (known as the Kresy) and annexed territories totalling with a population of 13,299,000.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Ukrainian Insurgent Army

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (translit, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and partisan formation founded by the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists on 14 October 1942. NKVD special groups and Ukrainian Insurgent Army are organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.

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Volhynia

Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) (Volynʹ, Wołyń, Volynʹ) is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between southeastern Poland, southwestern Belarus, and western Ukraine.

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Western Ukraine

Western Ukraine (Zakhidna Ukraina) or West Ukraine refers to the western territories of Ukraine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_special_groups

NKVD special groups, the Glossary

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Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

Russian special forces operations

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