Гвинтик машини Великого терору або доля харківського чекіста Григорія Гаркуші

Abstract

У статті досліджується професійна кар’єра лейтенанта державної безпеки Григорія Івановича Гаркуші, причини залучення його до розстрільної команди співробітників Управління НКВС по Харківській області в часи Великого терору.

In scientific monographs, documentary collections of recent decades, a significant amount of sources from the Chekist archives have been introduced into scientific circulation. This allows to obtain an important information about the structure and personnel of the OGPU-NKVD bodies, the psychology of the Chekists, their intelligence-operational work. The article attempts to study the history of the Road and Transport Department of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR in Kharkiv region during the period of structural reforms on the eve of the Great Terror, and at the time of the most large-scale and intense repressions against the Chekists themselves. On the example of studying the life of State Security Lieutenant Hryhoriy Ivanovych Harkusha, an attempt is made to reconstruct the policy of recruiting personnel for the Sovie. t special services and to define the peculiarities of corporate relations within the Chekist caste.