The Gradual Hardening. The Prerequisites of the Anti-Polish Action of the UPA, 1939-1943
In this paper, the emphasis is on the description of the specific mechanisms of gradual discharge ethnic hatred, which eventually led to the slaughter (Volyn massacre). The focus of the text is focused on the rivalry between the two groups in the local administration in the 1939-1942. Factor gradual mutual brutalization is almost ignored by several historians. Focusing on radicalism itself OUN, on the basis of a number of publications emigre Ukrainian historiography describing pastoral, idyllic neighborhood of Ukrainians and Poles in the 1930s, Samara author Mark Solonin denies element of spontaneity in the massacre of 1943. The American specialist Timothy Snyder’s “Reconstruction of the nation” nominated original thesis, that perhaps the main reason of anti-Polish cleansing was the experience of the Ukrainian policemen, who took part in the Holocaust in 1941-1942, and in the spring of 1943 passed into the UPA. However, the thesis is not confirmed until the documentary. Thus, studies of the Ukrainian-Polish conflict is still not clearly spelled out the simple pattern that almost any ethnic or inter-religious slaughter is due not speculative constructs of political leadership, and as a result of the mass of hatred, pumping mechanisms and which are disclosed in the article.