Nadiia Pastukh
Anthropologist, folklorist, and oral historian. She is a member of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Association of Oral History. Her research interests are related to oral history and folklore studies of the experience of the “difficult past” (collectivization, deportation, imprisonment, famines, and the Holodomor, the Holocaust, wars, the Resistance Movement in the twentieth century) and the “difficult present”— the Russian war against Ukraine in the twenty-first century.
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“Get ready. You’re going to Siberia”: Soviet postwar deportations in testimonies
The source is an excerpt from an interview conducted by anthropologist and folklorist Oksana Kuzmenko with Paraska Karach, a resident of the village of Isakiv in the Tlumach district of the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. When she was about fifteen, the respondent was deported to Siberia together with her family and was only able to return in 1985, after nearly forty years in exile. Between June 1944 and December 1952, one of the largest deportation campaigns in western Ukraine took place, during which tens of thousands of families were evicted under the pretext of combating the Ukrainian underground. Early in the interview, the respondent explains why her family was included on the deportation list: her...
Soviet deportation to Siberia in the end of 1940s: Testimonies
The excerpt presented here comes from an interview recorded in 2019 in Nadvirna, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, with Hanna Moskalova (Kubrysh). Born in 1938 in the village of Zelena, Nadvirna district, she was deported to Siberia with her family at the age of nine and returned to Ukraine only in 1977. Hanna’s family was among those forcibly evicted from their homes in western Ukraine between 1944 and 1952 by the newly established Soviet authorities. These families were sent to special settlements in remote regions of the USSR and were forbidden to leave the designated areas. Repression targeted the families of OUN and UPA members, as well as individuals who supported the insurgents—or were simply...