Historian Every Saturday: Ruslan Siromskyi. The Cold War, the KGB, the Ukrainian diaspora (31.08.2024)

Date
31 August 2024
Duration
1:07:40
Platform
YouTube
Participants
Ruslan Siromsky

An academic lecture by historian Ruslan Siromskyi (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on the Cold War and KGB operations against the Ukrainian diaspora. The article uses the segment on “active measures”: for years the Soviet security services pursued the “decomposition” of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the United States — imposing the Soviet version of events, sowing discord through fabricated injects, and planting agents in community organizations. A source for the article on Soviet active measures against the diaspora.

Key moments

  1. 37:42 The postwar Ukrainian diaspora (especially in Canada) grew stronger and worried Moscow
  2. 41:00 The KGB develops the 'decomposition' of the diaspora; Colonel Shulzhenko's 1962 directive
  3. 42:14 'Active measures': imposing the Soviet version, disinformation injects, infiltration of agents

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