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The paper analyzes two legal cases - the case of SVU (1929-1930) and the case concerning KGB’s operation “Block”. The similarity of two cases is emphasized in the aspect of the prosecution’s direction (against the ukrainian intellectuals) and also the manipulation of social opinion of the world’s society by soviet security services is shown. The cases are similar though not identical. The main difference lies in the methods chosen by chekists for each of the cases. “Block” was aimed first of all at stopping any creative and legal activity of the Ukrainian dissidents of the “sixties” generation while SVU was more about manipulation of the society’s opinion about the opposition in the USSR. These differences and similarities are analyzed as well as cultural and political consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The key methods of the Ukrainian SSR party authorities to counter the attempts of reviving the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the western Ukrainian regions at the break of the 80s-90s of the XX century were considered. It was noted that in the late 1970s in this region, particularly in Galicia, Greek-Catholic believers and the clergy measurably intensified their activity, which was evident mainly in houses of worship attendance, traditional rites observance, letters issued to the Council for Religious Affairs of the Soviet Union Ministers with the requirement to register religious communities, clandestine ordination of the clergy, etc. It was stated that in order to counter the religious influence intensification of the Russian Orthodox Church on the population, as well as to prevent negative anti-social manifestations of «remnants of Uniat», local Communist Party committees and Soviet authorities carried out a number of propaganda and mass political events to expose anti-Soviet religious ideology, in particular, «the reactionary role of the Uniat Church in the history of the Ukrainian people». It was noted that the Communist Party of Ukraine took concrete measures to step up anti-religious propaganda in Western Ukrainian regions, as well as to promote the advantages of the Soviet mode of life. It was alleged that the activities of Greek Catholic believers were discussed at the Council for Religious Affairs of the Soviet Union Ministers sessions of the Ukrainian SSR in the regions of Western Ukraine, party rallies at different levels, meetings of the ideological activists of the regions, seminars of cultural and educational workers, district and regional atheist conferences. It was noted that the Communist Party of Ukraine paid considerable attention to the media, which should have covered the historical aspects of the «anti-popular backbone of Uniat Church». [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]