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Leiba-Itzik Dobrovskij (ukr. Лейба-Іцик Йосифович Добровський) was born in 1910 in Olshanytsia (now in Rokytne District, Kyiv Region) into a Jewish family. Later, he lived in Kyiv. He attained a university-level education. On impressment to the Red Army on June 22, 1941, he fell into German captivity at Poltava, in October 1941, escaped and ended up in Rivne Region as a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in November 1941, and then joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), assuming an alias, ‘Valeriy’. In July 1943, Leiba-Itzik Dobrovskij was posted as a political aide to the Political Section of UPA’s North Command. While working underground from 1941 until 1944, he authored a number of well-known UPA’s appeals, in particular, the Appeal to the peoples of Asia and the Caucasus, and the political essay How Moscow's Tsarism Conquered Nations. Caught by the SMERSH in February 1944, Leiba-Itzik Dobrovsky, a soldier of UPA, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Kyiv Garrison Court Martial.
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