Terroryzm w II RP – Ukraińska Wojskowa Organizacja i Organizacja Ukraińskich Nacjonalistów
Terrorism in the Second Polish Republic – Ukrainian Military Organization and Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the issue of terrorism carried out by nationalist Ukrainian organizations in Poland in the interwar period (1918–1939). The reborn Republic of Poland was forced to defend it self, when it was faced with the threat. The Ukrainian nationalists continuously undermined the legality of the Polish ownership and management of theeastern borderlands, including Eastern Malopolska and Volhynia. The Ukrainians blamed Poland for the abortive attempts to create their own national state, which was unreasonableand unjustified. The escalating Ukrainian nationalism effectively destroyed all attempts undertaken by the Polish authorities to solve the political and economic problems of the eastern provinces. But was the collapse of Poland in 1939 indeed such a positive turn of events for the Ukrainian, as suggested by the Ukrainian nationalists?

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