it was for this crime that the israeli simon wesenthal center, involved in the search for nazi criminalsst of most wanted persons. in the soviet union, they have been searching for kotryuk since the late forties. o. the state security authorities sent various requests to state archives, to departmental archives, with a request to help find documents confirming their punitive activities. requests were sent throughout the soviet union, including ukraine, but many answers came that they were not listed, their fate was unknown. independent belarus also repeatedly sent requests to canada, but the kotryuk was not issued. by the way, he even received the so-called hitler pension. germany covered all the wishes of the executioner of khatyn, and he, including with german funds, financed the installation of the monument participants of the bukovina smoking in chernivtsi. the criminal case against the translator of the battalion lukovich was discontinued due to the death of the accused. lakusta, kurka, knap, lazinsky and sakhno were convicted. only lakusta was sentenced to death. then a case was op