Controversies

Polish-Ukrainian Historical Disputes over the Volhynian Massacres

The anti-Polish drive of the pro-Bandera Ukrainian underground during World War II, together with the subsequent Polish retaliation it largely spawned, undoubtedly mark the bloodiest period of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the 1940s. This conflict raged in territories which were within Poland’s interwar borders (basically, the country’s south-east), and which, taken as a whole, had nearly co-equal Polish and Ukrainian populations.

Grzegorz Motyka, A Failed Book

A new book has been published in Ukraine discussing the still controversial activities of the OUN and UPA, the two Ukrainian organizations that operated during WWII.Its author is not so much interested in what really happened, as in attempting to defend the UPA against allegations of having conducted organized anti-Polish cleansings.

Volhynian Massacres - Basic Information (PDF)

Ewa Siemaszko - The July 1943 genocidal operations of the OUN-UPA in Volhynia (PDF)

Michał Klimecki - Combat involvement of Poland’s 27th Infantry Division of the Volhynia Home Army against the UPA in the light of the 27th’s entire combat trail (PDF)

Romuald Niedzielko - The Book of the Righteous of the Eastern Borderlands 1939−1945 (PDF, EPUB, MOBI)

(PDF, EPUB, MOBI)