To the "55th Anniversary of the UPA": Interview with Meletii Semenyuk

Volyn Television. Broadcast to the "55th Anniversary of the UPA" from October 14, 1997 on the occasion of the anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

On the video: singing, commemoration at the cemetery, comments by Olga Savytska; interview with Meletii Semenyuk, talks about nation-building, Ukrainian society, freedom, struggle, about the myth of the "Great Patriotic War"; comments by Bohdan Samokhvalenko about the ideology of the insurgents, resistance to the occupation authorities; Meletii Semenyuk talks about the prerequisites and creation of the UPA.

Comments: head of the Volyn Brotherhood of UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) Soldiers Meletii Semenyuk; director of the Volyn Center of Folk Art Bohdan Samokhvalenko.

Journalist — Anastasia Petsenyuk.

Reference: Meletii Semenyuk is a Ukrainian military and public figure, an officer of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a participant in the OUN (Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists) underground and the Norilsk uprising of political prisoners of the Gulag. After being released from the camps, he organized the Brotherhood of OUN-UPA soldiers of the Volyn region and was engaged in the memorialization of participants in the national liberation movement.