Group case "Ukrainian National Front"

"Ukrainian National Front" - an organization with propaganda purposes. Created by D. Kvetsko and Z. Krasivsky in 1961. as the Ukrainian People's Front, in 1964. renamed the Ukrainian National Front. She opposed Russification, demanded that the forcibly deported Ukrainians be given the opportunity to return to the Ukrainian SSR. She published an illegal magazine "Will and Batkivshchyna". It operated on the territory of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Most of the participants were arrested in the spring of 1967. Sentenced to terms of 5 to 15 years in the camp plus 5 years of exile. Another UNF group was engaged in education and dissemination of samizdat, published the magazine "Prozrinnya", "Information Bulletin", "Ukrainian Visnik" continued its activities for 18 years. In 1979, the KGB was exposed. The village teacher Nikolai Kraynik (born 1936), Ivan Mandrik (born 1938) and the machinist Nikolai Zvarich (born 1948) were arrested.