ПІДСЛУХАНА РОЗМОВА: СТЕНОГРАМА БЕСІДИ МІЖ ДВОМА ПОЛІТ- В’ЯЗНЯМИ У КИЇВСЬКОМУ СЛІДЧОМУ ІЗОЛЯТОРІ КДБ

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to publish the previously classified document “Annotation on the Opera- tional Transcript of Conversations between V. Moroz and O. Serhiienko”, which is in the Sectoral State Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSA SSU). It is a transcript of a conversation recorded in October 1972 between political prisoners Valentyn Moroz and Oleksandr Serhiienko in a cell of the Committee of State Security (KGB) remand prison in Kyiv. The transcript is an original 18-page typescript and is an appendix to a report by Vitalii Fedorchuk, chairman of the KGB to the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR), addressed to Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CC CPU) from February 20, 1973. The document contains a lot of important information about the worldview of V. Moroz and O. Serhienko as of 1972, the relationship between Ukrainian dissidents in the early 1970 s, of this period. The information obtained as a result of wiretapping was later used by the KGB during “operational measures” against political prisoners and objects of the case “Blok”, which managed to avoid arrest. The annotation of the operative transcript between V. Moroz and O. Serhiienko is a valuable document for historians, as it sheds light on the situation of Ukrainian dissent in the early 1970s and on the methods of the Soviet regime’s struggle against conscious Ukrainians. A lot of information in the annotation can be found about the activities of individual members of the dissident movement, in particular, V. Chornovil, I. Dziuba, M. Kosiv. The document gives an idea of what the arrested political prisoners were discussing in the KGB detention centers, what problems they were interested in, what they hoped for in the confrontation with one of the most powerful states in the world at the time.

Keywords: Ukrainian dissident movement, State Security Committee (KGB), Soviet regime, Valentyn Moroz, Oleksandr Serhiienko, “Bloc” case.

conflicts in their environment, tasks, methods and tactics of the national movement