UKRAINIAN-POLISH RELATIONS OF 1939–1945 IN PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL THOUGHT OF DEMOCRATIC POLAND

Abstract

The article analyses Polish media and political discourses about Ukrainian-Polish relations during World War II. It highlights the role of Polish professional historians in public discussions. The author shows that, for two decades after the Soviet Union break-up, Polish public and political thoughts contains different, often contrary, ways of interpretation the Ukrainian Insurgent Army struggle, course of the Volhynian tragedy of 1943, and joint actions of Ukrainian and Polish liberation movements.