sympathy for Ukrainians was contrary to your plan.
      Had you managed to find a Jewish member of parliament and television broadcaster who had
      died in Ukraine under mysterious circumstances, then you would have had one small piece
      of evidence for the anti-Ukrainian conclusions that you offered. Had you managed to
      find a Russian member of parliament and television broadcaster who had died in Ukraine
      under mysterious circumstances, then you would have had one small piece of evidence for
      the anti-Ukrainian conclusions that you offered. However, you found neither of these
      things. In Ukraine, death under mysterious circumstances is reserved for prominent
      Ukrainians, which conclusion you had no interest in broadcasting.
      Below, I identify four incidents which I have brought to your attention either in three
      earlier letters, or in the present one. Although the first two cases occurred before
      your broadcast of 23Oct94, and the second two occurred after, all serve to support the
      conclusion that within today's Ukraine, it is Ukrainians who are the targets of
      violence:
      Date of my letter
      Subject of my letter
      Date of Attack
      Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
      15May99
      Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
      April 1979
      30Jun99
      Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
      February 14, 1992
      Violence that you might have caused by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
      09Apr99
      Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?
      Summer 1995
      17May99
      Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
      July 7-8, 1997
      As the first two of the above attacks occurred prior to your 23Oct94 broadcast, then
      your fault is that you neglected to report them. And as the second two attacks occurred
      after your 23Oct94 broadcast, then your fault is that you may have helped cause them.
      That is, your 23Oct94 broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, served to demonstrate to
      Ukraine's assassins not only that violence against Ukrainians would go unreported in the
      world press, but also that even as Ukrainians continued to be butchered, the world press
      would portray them - the victim Ukrainians - as themselves butchers. You did not
      yourself wield any knife or pull any trigger or tighten any garotte, but you informed
      those that were predisposed to do so that they might expect impunity if they did. For
      this reason, I consider you to have blood on your hands, some of it Maksym Tsarenko's,
      and some of it Volodymyr Katelnytsky's.
      Lubomyr Prytulak
      cc: Yaakov Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,
      Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.
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      Morley Safer Letter 12 01Jul99 Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?
      The plainest moral to be drawn from the Derevyanko-Hurvits story is that when a
      muckraking Ukrainian editor takes on a corrupt Jewish politician, the Ukrainian editor
      ends up dead.
      July 1, 1999
      Morley Safer
      60 Minutes, CBS Television
      51 W 52nd Street
      New York, NY
      USA 10019
      Morley Safer:
      The Committee to Protect Journalists described the contract killing of Ukrainian editor
      Borys Derevyanko thusly:
      Borys Derevyanko, Vechernyaya Odessa
      Date of Death: August 11, 1997
      Place of Death: Odessa
      Derevyanko, editor in chief of Vechernyaya Odessa, a popular and
      influential thrice-weekly newspaper, was fatally shot at point-blank
      range on his way to work on the morning of August 11 near the Press
      House, where the newspaper's offices are located. Colleagues believe
      the killing of Derevyanko, who was editor of Vechernyaya Odessa for 24
      years, was related to the newspaper's opposition to the policies of
      Odessa's mayor. The chief regional prosecutor declared the murder a
      contract killing and launched an official investigation. Local
      authorities announced in September that they had arrested a suspect,
      described as a professional assassin, who confessed to killing
      Derevyanko, but they gave no details about his confession.
      I would add that the Odessa mayor which the above account neglects to name was the
      corrupt Eduard Hurvits, who was particularly threatened by Borys Derevyanko's opposition
      because of municipal elections that were coming up in 1998. The comment concerning the
      arrest of an assassin gives a misleading impression - in today's Ukraine, contract
      killings are never solved, and those who order them are never punished.
      Today, Borys Derevyanko is dead, and Eduard Hurvits, barred by his corruption from
      holding the office of mayor of Odessa, continues his criminal career as a member of the
      Ukrainian parliament. Photographs of Derevyanko and Hurvits are shown below:
      Newspaper editor
      Borys Derevyanko
      Odessa Mayor
      Eduard Hurvits
      The table which I began in my letter to you of 30Jun99 can now be elaborated with
      another entry:
      Date of my letter
      Subject of my letter
      Date of Attack
      Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
      15May99
      Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
      April 1979
      30Jun99
      Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
      February 14, 1992
      Violence that you might have caused by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
      09Apr99
      Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?
      Summer 1995
      17May99
      Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
      July 7-8, 1997
      01Jul99
      Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?
      August 11, 1997
      As the conclusion of your 23Oct94 60 Minutes story, The Ugly Face of Freedom, was that
      Ukraine is a place in which Ukrainians practice violence against Jews, it is highly
      relevant that Borys Derevyanko is Ukrainian and Eduard Hurvits is Jewish. You went to
      Ukraine looking for evidence of Ukrainians harming Jews, you failed to find such
      evidence, but you broadcast your conclusion anyway. The true story that you would not
      broadcast, and that was readily documentable, is that Ukraine is a place in which Jews
      harm Ukrainians. The plainest moral to be drawn from the Derevyanko-Hurvits story is
      that when a muckraking Ukrainian editor takes on a corrupt Jewish politician, the
      Ukrainian editor ends up dead. That is the reality of Ukraine. It was the reality of
      Ukraine when you visited it in 1994, it was the reality of Ukraine before 1994, and it
      has been the reality of Ukraine since 1994.
      As in earlier letters, I fault you for not reporting such incidents as are in the above
      table that took place before 1994, and I fault you for precipitating such incidents that
      took place after 1994. Thus, to the blood that is already on your hands, I add the
      blood of Borys Derevyanko. You had the opportunity in your 1994 broadcast to come out
      on the side of the victims against the butchers, but you preferred to side with the
      butchers against the victims, and Borys Derevyanko has been one of the casualties of
      your decision.
      Lubomyr Prytulak
      cc: Yaakov Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,
      Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.
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      Morley Safer Letter 13 04Jul99 The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny
      Thus, it is possible that you contributed to Maksym Tsarenko losing his hands, and to
      Volodymyr Katelnytsky together with his mother, and Borys Derevyanko, losing their
      lives.
      Additional information on the Lviv massacre can be found in Alfred M. de Zayas, The
      Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945.
      July 4, 1999
      Morley Safer
      60 Minutes, CBS Television
      51 W 52nd Street
      New York, NY
      USA 10019
      Morley Safer:
      You Broadcast to 30 Million 60 Minutes
      Viewers that in the Days Prior to German
      Occupation, Ukrainians Killed Jews
      In your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, you joined with
      Simon Wiesenthal in charging that in the days preceding the arrival of German forces
      in June 1941, Lviv Ukrainians killed thousands of Jews:
      SAFER: He [Simon Wiesenthal] remembers that even before the
      Germans arrived, Ukrainian police went on a 3-day killing spree.
      WIESENTHAL: And in this 3 days in Lvov alone between 5 and 6
      thousand Jews was killed.
      [...]
      SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian
      militia, the police, killed 3,000 people in 2 days here.
      Some 60 Minutes viewers may have been struck by the observation that while the 60
      Minutes expert witness - Simon Wiesenthal - claimed that the number of Jews killed
      was "between 5 and 6 thousand" in three days, you - supposedly the neutral
      interviewer - chose to reduce the number killed to "3,000" and the duration of the
      killing to two days - but without informing the viewer on what grounds you did so.
      One wonders what reason you would have had for undermining the testimony of your
      chief - and only - witness. One wonders what superior authority you discovered for
      your revised statistic, and why you did not bring this superior authority forward to
      testify in front of the CBS cameras instead of Simon Wiesenthal whose testimony you
      apparently distrusted and chose to contradict. And one wonders that you could have
      such low regard for the intelligence of 60 Minutes viewers that you would broadcast
      discrepant accounts without explaining the discrepancy.
      However, I Can't Find Anyone Else
      Substantiating the Wiesenthal-Safer
      Pre-German Lviv Pogrom
      In my reading, I have yet to come across a single account which supports the
      Wiesenthal-Safer claim of anywhere from 3,000 Jews killed in 2 days to 5,000-6,000
      Jews killed in 3 days in Lviv during the pre-German interval. Had the
      Wiesenthal-Safer pogrom taken place, then it would have been one of the biggest
      pogroms of the war, and possibly the very biggest, and thus obligatory to describe
      in every history of the Holocaust, if not in every history of the Second World War.
      What I found, in contrast, was statements contradicting the possibility of the
      Wiesenthal-Safer pogrom, most notably the following three made by Raul Hilberg:
      From the Ukraine Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C reported as
      follows:
      Almost nowhere can the population be persuaded to
      take active steps against the Jews. This may be
      explained by the fear of many people that the Red
      Army may return. Again and again this anxiety has
      been pointed out to us. Older people have remarked
      that they had already experienced in 1918 the
      sudden retreat of the Germans. In order to meet
      the fear psychosis, and in order to destroy the
      myth [...] which, in the eyes of many Ukrainians,
      places the Jew in the position of the wielder of
      political power, Einsatzkommando 6 on several
      occasions marched Jews before their execution
      through the city. Also, care was taken to have
      Ukrainian militiamen watch the shooting of Jews.
      This "deflation" of the Jews in the public eye did not have the
      desired effect. After a few weeks, Einsatzgruppe C complained once
      more that the inhabitants did not betray the movements of hidden
      Jews. The Ukrainians were passive, benumbed by the "Bolshevist
      terror." Only the ethnic Germans in the area were busily working
      for the Einsatzgruppe. (Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the
      European Jews, 1961, p. 202)
      The Slavic population stood estranged and even aghast before the
      unfolding spectacle of the "final solution." There was on the
      whole no impelling desire to cooperate in a process of such utter
      ruthlessness. The fact that the Soviet regime, fighting off the
      Germans a few hundred miles to the east, was still threatening to
      return, undoubtedly acted as a powerful restraint upon many a
      potential collaborator. (Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the
      European Jews, 1985, p. 308)
      First, truly spontaneous pogroms, free from Einsatzgruppen
      influence, did not take place; all outbreaks were either organized
      or inspired by the Einsatzgruppen. Second, all pogroms were
      implemented within a short time after the arrival of the killing
      units. They were not self-perpetuating, nor could new ones be
      started after things had settled down. (Raul Hilberg, The
      Destruction of the European Jews, 1985, p. 312)
      Fearing that substantiation for the Wiesenthal-Safer Lviv pogrom did exist somewhere
      and that I had merely overlooked it, I made enquiry to leading Holocaust historian,
      Raul Hilberg, on 15Sep97. Professor Hilberg was good enough in his reply of 15Dec97
      to outline for me instances that he knew of anti-Jewish activity conducted in that
      area at that time, and none of these instances gave credence to the Wiesenthal-Safer
      Lviv pogrom.
      Perhaps the most telling piece of evidence that the Wiesenthal-Safer Lviv pogrom was
      a fabrication is unearthed upon trying to substantiate it in Simon Wiesenthal's own
      writing. In one place, Simon Wiesenthal has the anti-Jewish activity postdating the
      arrival of the Germans, and mentions neither the number of fatalities nor the
      duration:
      The Ukrainian police ... had played a disastrous role in Galicia
      following the entry of the German troops at the end of June and the
      beginning of July 1941. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance,
      1989, p. 34, emphasis added)
      And later in the same account, Simon Wiesenthal does mention a Lviv pogrom of three
      day's duration, but again without mentioning the number of fatalities, and again
      unambiguously placing it after the German occupation:
      Thousands of detainees were shot dead in their cells by the
      retreating Soviets. This gave rise to one of the craziest
      accusations of that period: among the strongly anti-Semitic
      population the rumour was spread by the Ukrainian nationalists that
      all Jews were Bolsheviks and all Bolsheviks were Jews. Hence it
      was the Jews who were really to blame for the atrocities committed
      by the Soviets.
      All the Germans needed to do was to exploit this climate of
      opinion. It is said that after their arrival they gave the
      Ukrainians free rein, for three days, to 'deal' with the Jews.
      (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p. 36, emphasis
      added)
      Also, whereas on your 60 Minutes broadcast you gave the impression that Simon
      Wiesenthal was making his appearance on 60 Minutes in the role of an eyewitness to
      the Wiesenthal-Safer Lviv Pogrom, or at least as a researcher who had documented it,
      yet in the quotation immediately above, Simon Wiesenthal's use of "It is said that"
      gives the contrasting impression that he is no more than passing along a rumor
      concerning events that he has neither witnessed nor verified.
      In conclusion, the Wiesenthal-Safer story of a massive pre-German Lviv pogrom is not
      supported in historical writing, and is even contradicted by other testimony, some
      of it leading Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg's, and some of it your own expert
      witness Simon Wiesenthal's. Thus, unless you are able to substantiate the
      Wiesenthal-Safer pre-German Lviv pogrom, you will invite the conclusion that it
      never took place, and that your implanting it into the minds of 30 million 60
      Minutes viewers constituted an attempt on the part of two individuals Simon
      Wiesenthal and yourself - to fabricate a piece of history.
      In Fact, the Consensus Seems to be that in
      the Days Prior to German Occupation, it
      was the NKVD that was Killing Ukrainians
      In contrast to what appears to be a lack of substantiation of the Wiesenthal-Safer
      story that in the days prior to German occupation Ukrainians were murdering Jews, I
      do in my reading keep stumbling across quite a different story - that in the days
      prior to German occupation, it was the NKVD that was murdering Ukrainians. Below
      are 22 such statements. These statements were discovered not through any systematic
      or exhaustive search, but rather only through casual reading. A systematic and
      exhaustive search would turn up a much larger number of such statements.
      In order to demonstrate that the NKVD had a general policy of killing Ukrainians
      prior to retreating, of which the Lviv massacre was but a single instance, I include
      descriptions of such killings in several locations.
      "NKVD," in case you are interested, is an acronym for the Russian "Narodny
      Komisariat Vnutrenikh Del," which translates as "National Commissariat of Internal
      Affairs," and which bland title gives no hint of the NKVD's true role.
      Please note that the block quotation immediately below is attributable to Simon
      Wiesenthal, and that in it he demonstrates an awareness of the NKVD massacre of
      Ukrainians, such that omitting mention of this massacre on your 23Oct94 60 Minutes
      broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, must be considered not an oversight, but a
      willful suppression of relevant information:
      (1) Thousands of detainees were shot dead.
      When the German attack came on 22 June the Soviets had no time to
      take with them the people they had locked up. So they simply
      killed them. Thousands of detainees were shot dead in their cells
      by the retreating Soviets. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not
      Vengeance, 1989, p. 35)
      (2) The NKVD burned prisons with prisoners in them.
      While the movement to the East was taking place, the NKVD carried
      out mass arrests and executions, chiefly of Ukrainians - especially
      those who tried to avoid evacuation. In the jails most prisoners
      whose period of imprisonment was more than three years were shot;
      others were evacuated if possible. In several cities the NKVD
      burned prisons with prisoners in them. (Volodymyr Kubijovyc,
      editor, Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, University of Toronto
      Press, Toronto, 1963, Volume I, p. 878, Vsevolod Holubnychy and H.
      M. wrote this section)
      (3) Succeeded in annihilating some 10,000 political prisoners.
      The Bolsheviks succeeded in annihilating some 10,000 political
      prisoners in Western Ukraine before and after the outbreak of
      hostilities (massacres took place in the prisons in Lviv, Zolochiv,
      Rivne, Dubno, Lutsk, etc.). (Volodymyr Kubijovyc, editor, Ukraine:
      A Concise Encyclopaedia, University of Toronto Press, Toronto,
      Volume 1, p. 886)
      (4) Mainly members of the city's [Lviv's] intelligentsia.
      Before fleeing the German advance the Soviet occupational regime
      murdered thousands of Ukrainian civilians, mainly members of the
      city's [Lviv's] intelligentsia. (Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volume
      3, p. 222)
      (5) NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en masse.
      The Soviets' hurried retreat had tragic consequences for thousands
      of political prisoners in the jails of Western Ukraine. Unable to
      evacuate them in time, the NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en
      masse during the week of 22-29 June 1941, regardless of whether
      they were incarcerated for major or minor offenses. Major
      massacres occurred in Lviv, Sambir, and Stanyslaviv in Galicia,
      where about 10,000 prisoners died, and in Rivne and Lutsk in
      Volhynia, where another 5000 perished. Coming on the heels of the
      mass deportations and growing Soviet terror, these executions added
      greatly to the West Ukrainians' abhorrence of the Soviets. (Orest
      Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, 1994, p. 461)
      (6) Liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck.
      Right after the entry we were shown 2,400 dead bodies of Ukrainians
      liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck at the city jail
      of Lemberg [Lviv] by the Soviets prior to their marching off.
      (Hans Frank, In the Face of the Gallows, p. 406)
      (7) The city stank.
      In Lvov, several thousand prisoners had been held in three jails.
      When the Germans arrived on 29 June, the city stank, and the
      prisons were surrounded by terrified relatives. Unimaginable
      atrocities had occurred inside. The prisons looked like
      abattoirs. It had taken the NKVD a week to complete their gruesome
      task before they fled. (Gwyneth Hughes and Simon Welfare, Red
      Empire: The Forbidden History of the USSR, 1990, p. 133)
      (8) Many of them were found mutilated.
      We learned that, before the Russian troops had left, a very great
      number of Lemberg [Lviv] citizens, Ukrainians and Polish
      inhabitants of other towns and villages had been killed in this
      prison and in other prisons. Furthermore, there were many corpses
      of German men and officers, among them many Air Corps officers, and
      many of them were found mutilated. There was a great bitterness
      and excitement among the Lemberg population against the Jewish
      sector of the population. (Erwin Schulz, from May until 26
      September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a subunit of
      Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The Holocaust:
      Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New York, 1982,
      Volume 18, p. 18)
      (9) The killed people in Lemberg [Lviv] amounted to about 5,000.
      On the next day, Dr. RASCH informed us to the effect that the
      killed people in Lemberg [Lviv] amounted to about 5,000. It has
      been determined without any doubt that the arrests and killings had
      taken place under the leadership of Jewish functionaries and with
      the participation of the Jewish inhabitants of Lemberg. That was
      the reason why there was such an excitement against the Jewish
      population on the part of the Lemberg citizens. (Erwin Schulz,
      from May until 26 September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a
      subunit of Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The
      Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New
      York, 1982, Volume 18, p. 18)
      (10) Hardly 20% of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained.
      Chief of Einsatzgruppe B reports that Ukrainian insurrection
      movements were bloodily suppressed by the NKVD on June 25, 1941 in
      Lvov. About 3,000 were shot by NKVD. Prison burning. Hardly 20%
      of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained. (Operational Situation
      Report USSR No. 10, July 2, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel
      Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports:
      Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign
      Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New
      York, 1989, p. 2)
      (11) The corpses are dreadfully mutilated.
      Location: Lvov
      According to reliable information, the Russians, before
      withdrawing, shot 30,000 inhabitants. The corpses piled up and
      burned at the GPU prisons are dreadfully mutilated. The population
      is greatly excited: 1,000 Jews have already been forcefully
      gathered together. (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 11, July
      3, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The
      Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi
      Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943,
      Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 4)
      (12) The prisons in Lvov were crammed with the bodies of murdered
      Ukrainians.
      Location: Zviahel (Novograd-Volynski)
      [...]
      Before leaving, the Bolsheviks, together with the Jews,
      murdered several Ukrainians; as an excuse, they used the attempted
      Ukrainian uprising of June 25, 1941, which tried to free their
      prisoners.
      According to reliable information, about 20,000 Ukrainians have
      disappeared from Lvov, 80% of them belonging to the intelligentsia.
      The prisons in Lvov were crammed with the bodies of murdered
      Ukrainians. According to a moderate estimate, in Lvov alone
      3-4,000 persons were either killed or deported.
      In Dobromil, 82 dead bodies were found, 4 of them Jews. The
      latter were former Bolsheviki informers who had been killed because
      of their complicity in this act. Near Dobromil an obsolete salt
      mine pit was discovered. It was completely filled with dead
      bodies. In the immediate neighborhood, there is a 6X15m mass
      grave. The number of those murdered in the Dobromil area is
      estimated to be approximately several hundred.
      In Sambor on June 26, 1941, about 400 Ukrainians were shot by
      the Bolsheviks. An additional 120 persons were murdered on June
      27, 1941. The remaining 80 prisoners succeeded in overpowering the
      Soviet guards, and fled. [...]
      As early as 1939, a larger number of Ukrainians was shot, and
      1,500 Ukrainians as well as 500 Poles were deported to the east.
      Russians and Jews committed these murders in very cruel ways.
      Bestial mutilations were daily occurrences. Breasts of women and
      genitals of men were cut off. Jews have also nailed children to
      the wall and then murdered them. Killing was carried out by shots
      in the back of the neck. Hand grenades were frequently used for
      these murders.
      In Dobromil, women and men were killed with blows by a hammer
      used to stun cattle before slaughter.
      In many cases, the prisoners must have been tortured cruelly:
      bones were broken, etc. In Sambor, the prisoners were gagged and
      thus prevented from screaming during torture and murder. The Jews,
      some of whom also held official positions, in addition to their
      economic supremacy, and who served in the entire Bolshevik police,
      were always partners in these atrocities.
      Finally, it was established that seven [German] pilots who had
      been captured were murdered. Three of them were found in a Russian
      military hospital where they had been murdered in bed by shots in
      the abdomen. [...]
      [...] Prior to their withdrawal, the Bolsheviks shot 2,800 out
      of 4,000 Ukrainians imprisoned in the Lutsk prison. According to
      the statement of 19 Ukrainians who survived the slaughter with more
      or less serious injuries, the Jews again played a decisive part in
      the arrests and shooting. [...]
      The investigations at Zlochev proved that the Russians, prior
      to their withdrawal, arrested and murdered indiscriminately a total
      of 700 Ukrainians, but, nevertheless, included the entire [local]
      Ukrainian intelligentsia. (Operational Situation Report USSR No.
      24, July 16, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel
      Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches
      of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July
      1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 29-33)
      (13) Ukrainians thrown into cauldrons of boiling water.
      Location: Pleskau [Pskov] [...]
      The population is in general convinced that it is mostly the
      Jews who should be held responsible for the atrocities that are
      committed everywhere. [...]
      As it was learned that the Russians before they left have
      either deported the Ukrainian intelligentsia, or executed them,
      that is, murdered them, it is assumed that in the last days before
      the retreat of the Russians, about 100 influential Ukrainians were
      murdered [in Pleskau]. So far the bodies have not been found - a
      search has been initiated.
      About 100-150 Ukrainians were murdered by the Russians in
      Kremenets. Some of these Ukrainians are said to have been thrown
      into cauldrons of boiling water. This has been deduced from the
      fact that the bodies were found without skin when they were
      exhumed. [...]
      [...] Before leaving Dubno, the Russians, as they had done in
      Lvov, committed extensive mass-murder.
      [...] Before their flight [from Tarnopol], as in Lvov and
      Dubno, the Russians went on a rampage there. Disinterments
      revealed 10 bodies of German soldiers. Almost all of them had
      their hands tied behind their backs with wire. The bodies revealed
      traces of extremely cruel mutilations such as gouged eyes, severed
      tongues and limbs.
      The number of Ukrainians who were murdered by the Russians,
      among them women and children, is set finally at 600. Jews and