| Abstract [eng] |
In the historiography dedicated to post-war struggles in Lithuania and Western Ukraine is taken to research the NKVD - MGB special groups’ actions in the armed resistance movement against Soviets in Lithuania and Western Ukraine after 1990. The actions of these groups in Lithuania and Western Ukraine are low researched subject in modern historiography. The actions of NKVD - MGB special groups are valued very controversial by historians. The goal of this study is to analyze how the NKVD - MGB special groups and their activities are presented and interpreted in modern historiography. The theme analyzing in certain chronological framework will help to implement this goal. The chronological framework reflects the classic periodisation of armed resistance movement against Soviets in Lithuania and Westren Ukraine: in Lithuania - 1944 - 1945, 1946 - 1948, 1949 - 1953, 1954 - 1959 (1965); in Western Ukraine - 1944 - 1946, 1947 - 1949, 1950 - 1956. There will be presented the general characteristics and the NKVD - MGB special group activities’ presentation and treatment by scientists in this period in the mentioned framework in this study. Such an analytical method of this study helped to clarify that historians exploring the NKVD - MGB special groups’ activities in Lithuania and Western Ukraine is not precisely defined the group definition. The group composition, methods of operation against the armed resistance movement against Soviets are presented quite biased by some scientists, without any concrete evidence to support their hypothesis and often in accordance with the help of analogies. Scientists provide a selective samples of facts, often the NKVD - MBG special groups’ activities are valuated through an ethical prism. The ethical evaluation of these groups is characteristic by some researchers who examine the NKVD - MGB special groups’ activities in Lithuania. Such a position of some scientists do not help to destroy the society prevailing historical myths, but often historical myths existence is further enhanced and even create new ones. |
