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"UPA. Unknown Pages"

"UPA. Unknown Pages"

2003, 30 min

2003, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program "UPA. Unknown Pages" from the series "History of Ukrainian Statehood" is dedicated to unknown facts of the history of Ukraine during World War II, the reasons that led to the creation of the OUN and the UPA, the struggle of the Ukrainian people, in particular the UPA fighters against the occupiers for an independent Ukrainian state.

In the video: screensavers, interviews with members of the OUN and UPA, archival photos, chronicle videos, lines of the poem "The Last Bow" by Nestor Korzhevsky are heard.

Heroes of the video: Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences Yaroslav Dashkevych; liaison officer of the Chief Commander of the UPA Roman Shchukhevych Daria Guslyak; OUN member, prisoner of Buchenwald Lydia Bil-Goryanyuk; General-Coroner, Chief Commander of the UPA Vasyl Kuk; Head of the OUN Brotherhood of the UPA of the Carpathian Territory Fotii Volodymyrskyi; referent of the Dolynskyi supra-district Wire of the OUN Ivan Dolyshnyi; referent-political educator of the "Turiv" Military District Stepan Semenyuk; Professor, Candidate of Historical Sciences Guriy Bukhalo; UPA soldier Oleksandr Hordiychuk; UPA security service intelligence officer Stepan Samko; rifleman "UPA - South" Volodymyr Karatash; editor-in-chief of the "Litopys UPA" Petro Potichnyi; communications scout of the Burlaky hundred Ivan Starostyak; intelligence officer, UPA communications officer Maria Yukish; member of the OUN "Youth" Mykola Makolyuk; centurion Myroslav Symchych; herald, swarm centurion Vasyl Melnyk; village headman of the Rakiv village Vasyl Andrusiv.

Author: Oleksandr Ryabokrys.