"Declassified History": Unification Act

Studio, 2019. The issue "Day of Union or Separation?" of the "Declassified History" program is dedicated to the history of the proclamation of the Unification Act of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic on January 22, 1919.

On the video: fragments of a black-and-white archival chronicle; Yevhen Chykalenko at work; historical background; discussion of documents from state archives, reading of the text of the Unification Act; chronicle with Symon Petliura; scientific discussion, comments from researchers; blitzpoll of Ukrainians from different cities "When in the 20th century did Ukraine unite?"; summing up the conversation.

Comments: historian, researcher at the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies Valentyn Piskun; historian Oleksandr Pagyrya; film director Taras Khymych; historian, researcher at the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies Mykhailo Kovalchuk.

Host — Oleksandr Zinchenko.

Reference: The Unification Act or the Great Union is a solemn proclamation of the universal on the unification of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic into a single united Ukrainian state, which took place on January 22, 1919 on Sophia Square in Kyiv. The event consolidated the idea of ​​unionism as the state principle of the Ukrainian national movement during the period of the revolution of 1917–1921. In memory of the Act of Union, Ukraine annually celebrates the Day of Union of Ukraine on January 22.