Kontrrazvedka
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The Kontrrazvedka was the counterintelligence division of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. Its main functions were to carry out military reconnaissance, the prosecution of captured enemies
Members of the Union of Poor Peasants.
Lev Zadov, founding member and chief of the Kontrrazvedka.
Dmitry Popov, the chief of the Kontrrazvedka during its operations in Katerynoslav.
Halyna Kuzmenko, one of the founding members of the Commission for Anti-Makhnovist Activities.
Polonsky conspiracy
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The Polonsky conspiracy, also known as the Polonsky plot or Polonsky affair, was an attempt by Ukrainian Bolsheviks to overthrow the Makhnovshchina during the autumn of 1919.
Kontrrazvedka
…executions on the banks of the Dnieper, where the Kontrrazvedka would leave the bodies to wash ashore. Among the executed were participants in the Polonsky conspiracy, an attempt by Bolsheviks to assassinate leading insurgents and overthrow the Makhnovshchina, which the Kontrrazvedka uncovered and suppressed. When…
Members of the insurgent staff, including Semen Karetnyk (front row, second from left) and Hryhory Vasylivsky (front row, third from left), who participated in the suppression of the conspiracy
Volin, a leading anarchist of the Makhnovshchina, who voiced his opposition to the summary execution of the conspirators