On 15 February 1946, Makukh was taken to the district precinct of the KGB (soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs) in Velyki Mosty and later to Lviv Prison No.

On 11 July 1946, the Military Tribunal of Lviv garrison sentenced him to 10 years of hard labour (katorga) with five years of detention ("civil rights restriction") plus the confiscation of all his property.

Makukh served his sentence in Dubravlag (Mordovia) and other GULAG camps in Siberia.

[1] On 18 July 1955, he was freed and exiled to a local settlement, where he met a woman who had also served 10 years imprisonment.

On 6 November 1968 the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky District of Kyiv city opened a criminal case against him because of the suicide, the outcome of which was never made known.