Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus
GPU accused the victims of membership in a (presumably non-existent) anti-Soviet organization called the Union of Liberation of Belarus (Belarusian: Саюз вызвалення Беларусі, romanized
: Sajuz vyzvalennia Biełarusi). Most of the accused were killed, or expelled to far-away regions of the USSR.
A case started with the arrest of the editor
Belarusian Science Academy Usievalad Ihnatoŭski
were at certain stages accused of being members of the ULB.
All those arrested, except for 18 people, were sentenced to different terms of deportation. Usievalad Ihnatouski committed suicide on February 4, 1931. The supposed leaders of the ULB were sentenced to 10 years of deportation while most of the other members were deported to inner regions of the USSR for 5 years.
In 1937—1941 the case was heard again; many of the convicts were executed, some sent to concentration camps. In 1937-1939 many of the GPU executives who had worked on the case were also themselves executed. Another wave of repressions occurred in 1949-1952 against those former ULB membership suspects who were still alive at the time.
List of suspects at the ULB case
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References
- ^ The list is not full and includes only 98 people
Sources
- Аркуш А. Рызыкоўная барацьба намэнклятуры // Наша Ніва, No.7.
- Сідарэвіч А. Трыюмвіры, або Помнік камісарам // Наша Ніва, No.13.