That morning the [Wehrmacht] and the OUN discovered that the Soviet secret police[,] the NKVD[,] had massacred its political prisoners when the [anticommunist] invasion began to prevent them from collaborating with the [Axis]. Many were doubtless OUN members killed before they could carry out horrific crimes, like Roman Shukhevych’s brother. This happened in a number of areas and was used by the OUN to scapegoat the Jewish population for the killings. They were falsely accused of being NKVD informants and blamed for the victims’ deaths. This would be the pattern across western Ukraine and where there had been no recent executions[;] those executed in the terror years earlier were dug up to enflame the masses. Thus already on 30 June 1941 small-scale massacres of the Jews of Lvov began.