Volyn Tragedy: Causes of the Conflict

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2016.

The issue "Volyn Tragedy: Causes of the Conflict" of the program "Declassified History" is dedicated to the study of the causes and course of the Polish-Ukrainian armed conflict in Volyn in 1943–1945.

On the video: historical background, black-and-white chronicle; discussion between Polish and Ukrainian historians, representation of the historiography of historical schools of the two countries; issues of studying documentation on the conflict; Polish magazines about the "Volyn Tragedy"; discussion of Soviet myths; discussion.

Contains materials from the Branch State Archive of the SBU.

Commentators: Łukasz Adamski, Polish historian and political scientist; Yuriy Shapoval, historian and researcher at the I. Kuras Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Ivan Patryliak, historian and researcher of Ukrainian nationalism; Volodymyr Viatrovych, historian and head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.

Host — Oleksandr Zinchenko.

Reference: The Volyn tragedy is a Polish-Ukrainian armed conflict of 1943–1945 in the territories of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, during which tens of thousands of civilians on both sides died as a result of the actions of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) and the corresponding actions of the Polish underground AK (Home Army). Polish historiography qualifies these events as genocide, while Ukrainian historiography qualifies these events as a mutual armed conflict under the conditions of Nazi occupation and complex interethnic relations that formed in the interwar period.