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Stryj). It was run by Petro Mirchuk, the
OUN member who later became known
in the Ukrainian diaspora as a historian
and a publicist. In 1935, the clandestine
printing shop of the OUN was moved to
the village of Muzhyliv in Pidgajechyna.
It was established by Vasyl Kruk, who
later became known as head of the
nationalistic underground in Ukraine.
The Poles did not manage to discover
that kryivka; so, it had been successfully
operating right to September, 1939. In
1937, Kruk ordered one more kryivka,
situated in the village of Ugryniv, to be
equipped for the printing purposes. It
had been publishing leaflets, bulletins,
educational materials, and brochures to

the very time of Bolsheviks’ arrival.
September of 1939 drastically
changed to the life of Western Ukraine.
In the course of local revolts and attack
upon Polish military and police units, a
certain amount of weapons (8,000 rifles,
small guns, and mortars; seven guns;
one tank; eight planes) were captured by
the OUN members. In order not to let
Bolsheviks get hold of all those things,
new types of kryivkas were needed. Thus,
the construction of kryivkas, equipped
as ammunition depots, was started.
Mostly, in order to hide the process of
their construction, bunkers were built
in villages, simultaneously with the
construction of a house or a household

The monument to the heroes of the UPA

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