How the Ukrainians regarded their Russian oppressors is demonstrated by the fact that over 2 million Ukrainian soldiers from the Soviet armies deserted to the German lines in 1941. and several thousands of them joined the Ukrainian insurgent armyUPAa powerful Ukrainian underground resistance movement which fought against both the Nazis and the Bolsheviks in Ukraine. the UPA continued its antiSoviet resistance well into the early 1950s. during which time some 35.000 KGB and other Soviet security troops and agents were killed by the UPA. In 1946. the Kremlin wantonly destroyed the Ukrainian Catholic Church in western Ukraine: of 11 Ukrainian Catholic bishops. only Metropolitan Joseph Slipy survived and he was released in 1963 upon direct intervention by Pope John and was made a cardinal and now resides in Rome. hundreds of Ukrainian Catholic priests were killed or exiled. while some 6.000.000 Ukrainian Catholics were forcibly subordinated to Russian Orthodoxy. Khrushchev himself stated at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in February 1956 that: Stalin had wanted to deport all Ukrainians. but there were too many of them and there was no place to which they could be deported. The fate of the Ukrainian people evoked worldwide indignation. and many governments expressed their concern over the inhuman treatment of the Ukrainians by Communist Russia. As of today.
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