ANALYSIS OF THE ARCHIVAL CRIMINAL CASE OF VASYL FEDAK

Abstract

The article analyzes the archival and criminal case of Vasyl Fedak. Vasyl Fedak, living in Transcarpathia, experienced the politics and rules of many states and regimes at his age. He was born in 1911 in Austria-Hungary. He received his education, from primary to higher education, in Czechoslovakia. There, he completed his military service, obtaining the military rank of lieutenant. At this time, his interests are sports and sports journalism. During the Carpathian Ukraine (1938-1939) period, V. Fedak moved to Khust, where he ran a sports column in the government newspaper "Nova Svoboda". During the Hungarian occupation, he worked as a teacher in the village of Sokyrnytsia. Later, he was mobilized as an officer in the Hungarian army. With the arrival of the Soviet troops, Vasyl Fedak was elected secretary of the people's committee in the village of Sokyrnytsia, a delegate of the First Congress of National Committees of Transcarpathian Ukraine. In May 1945, he was appointed chairman of the Committee for Physical Education and Sports at the National Council of Transcarpathian Ukraine. Here, he is actively involved in the development of sports in the region. For less than a year, he worked as the head of the physical education and sports committee in the conditions of the Transcarpathian region (created in January 1946). In December 1946, he was dismissed from his leadership position. In October 1948, he was arrested by the MGB authorities. He spent seven years, one month and seven days in the camps. It wasn't easy to have a career after returning. He barely managed to get a job as a coach and, later, a physical education instructor. V. Fedak died in independent Ukraine - October 25, 1991. He left behind his life's work - the monograph "Transcarpathia in a Sports Dimension" published posthumously in 1994. Investigating the criminal case, we tried to understand its organization, conduct, work of the investigator (investigators), interrogation of witnesses, conduct of face-to-face bets, etc. All this is important because in just a little more than two months (from October 12 to December 9, 1948), the documents of the investigative department in the case number 205 sheets. Another 32 sheets are materials of the prosecutor's office and the court, 40 sheets on the review of the case in 1951-1955 and 8 sheets of documents with materials related to the rehabilitation of V. Fedak in 1991-1992. V. Fedak was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was declared a resident of Hungarian counter-intelligence, "education of youth in the fascist spirit", participated in battles against the Red Army and made speeches against the reunification of Transcarpathia with Soviet Ukraine. In 1954, his term was reduced to 10 years. At the end of November 1955, he was released from custody. He was rehabilitated on February 20, 1992, with the wording that Fedak Vasyl is subject to Article I of the Law of Ukraine, "On Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression in Ukraine," April 17, 1991.