Lutsik Anatoly Ivanovich

Lutsik Mikhail Petrovich

Born in 1921 in the village of Volosyanka, Skole district, Lviv region. Spent his childhood in Vienna, studied in Berlin. Arrested by the Gestapo in the late 1930s, released in the early 1940s and deported to Western Ukraine. In 1943, he graduated from the history and geography department of Lviv University, and was engaged in scientific work. Arrested on 28.10.1944 by the MGB, sentenced on 29.12.1944 to 15 years in a labor camp and 5 years of disenfranchisement on charges of belonging to the OUN. Released early on 15.06.1956 by a decision of the Commission of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR. Returned to the city of Striy, Lviv region. He was rehabilitated in November 1956. In 1957, he was arrested again on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda and sentenced on 19.12.1958 in Drogobych to 3 years in prison, 5 years in a labor camp and 5 years in exile. In April 1959, he was transferred to the KGB pre-trial detention facility in Kyiv for transfer to Vorkuta. On 12.04.1961, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and 10 years in a strict regime labor camp. He was held in Vladimir prison, then in Mordovian and Perm camps. He was released on 18.11.1972 from camp point 36 of the Perm colony. He was sent to the city of Rybnitsa in the Moldavian SSR. After his release, he refused to receive a Soviet passport and sought permission to leave for Austria, as he considered himself an Austrian citizen. Arrested on 31.06.1973, sentenced on 19.09.1973 by the Rybnitsky District People's Court to 2 years in a strict regime penal colony for "vagrancy" (Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR). In the camp, he continued to claim that he was an Austrian citizen. The Supreme Court of the Moldavian SSR annulled the sentence, Lutsik was sent for a forensic psychiatric examination. On 24.03.1974 he was recognized as insane, sent for compulsory treatment, on 30.01.1975 he was transferred to the Dnepropetrovsk St. Petersburg hospital. On 10.07.1978, at the Serbsky Institute, the diagnosis of mental illness was removed. On 01.09.1978 he was released by decision of the prosecutor's office of the Moldavian SSR. He returned to the city of Skol in the Lviv region, seeking the right to emigrate.