The Court of Appeal of the Kyiv Region rehabilitated the “incorrigible bandit”
The Court of Appeal of the Kiev Region rehabilitated the Petliura ataman Fyodor Artemenko-Orlik and his associates Yakov Khomenko-Smutenko and Fyodor Noga, who at the beginning of the twentieth century “resisted the communist totalitarian regime, fighting for the independence of Ukraine,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Kyiv region.
“In accordance with Art. 7 of the Law of Ukraine “On the rehabilitation of victims of political repression in Ukraine”, by the decision of the Court of Appeal of the Kiev region, the Petlyura ataman of the Kiev region Fedor Petrovich Artemenko-Orlik and his brothers Yakov Nestorovich Khomenko-Smutenko and Fedor Arkhipovich Noga were rehabilitated,” the message says.
As noted, they “resisted the communist totalitarian regime, participated in the armed detachments of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and committed other actions that certainly testify to their struggle for the independence of Ukraine at the beginning of the twentieth century.”
Thus, in the Kyiv region in 1920-1922, “detachments led by Ataman Orlik began to fight against the Bolshevik invaders in the area of Irpen, Bucha, Gostomel, Vorzel, Klavdievo, Borodyanka, Teterev, Radomyshl, Ivankov, Dymer, Chernobyl, Fastov, Makarov, who attacked Bolshevik garrisons and military units of the Red Army and carried out propaganda work among the population.”
The court found that for their activities, by the resolution of the Kyiv Provincial Extraordinary Commission of February 26, 1922, Artemenko-Orlik Fedor Petrovich, Khomenko-Smutenko Yakov Nestorovich and Noga Fedor Arkhipovich were recognized as enemies of the Soviet government, incorrigible bandits and sentenced under Art. 58, art. 68 h.h. 1,2 tbsp. 76 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR of 1922 to capital punishment - execution.
A study of the archival criminal case established that “the indicated persons were unjustifiably convicted for the fight for the independence of Ukraine, which manifested itself in participation and leadership of armed units of the UPR, as well as in the fight against the current government in other ways.”
The prosecutor's office of the Kyiv region defended its principled position regarding the recognition as unfounded of the conviction of the Petlyura ataman of the Kyiv region and his two associates to capital punishment - execution and achieved their rehabilitation.
On October 14, 2017, in Vinnitsa, for the first time in Ukraine, a monument to Simon Petlyura was erected - in the former Jewish quarter of the city - Jerusalem.
The Kyiv Regional Court of Appeal has rehabilitated an "incorrigible bandit. "