ВІЙНИ ПАМ’ЯТНИКІВ У СУЧАСНИХ УКРАЇНСЬКО-ПОЛЬСЬКИХ ВІДНОСИНАХ: ВІДГОМІН МИНУЛОГО ЧИ ПОЛІТИЗАЦІЯ ІСТОРИЧНОЇ ПАМ’ЯТІ?

Abstract

Contemporary Ukrainian-Polish relations bear the burden of the past, which is manifested by the controversy surrounding the complex historical past, the shared tragic historical pages. The article examines contemporary Ukrainian-Polish interstate and international relations through the prism of controversy over complex issues of common history that have spilled over into recent decades into so-called "grave wars" or "monuments wars". It has been proved that this state of affairs is the result of the implementation of a rather different, historical memory policy pursued by the Republic of Poland and Ukraine. The events of a relatively recent past, such as the Second World War, are a rather traumatic historical memory for both societies and are therefore most often used as a means of political manipulation. With the coming to power of the Right and Just Party party in Poland, the agenda of revising history, returning to the attempts previously tried to influence the transformation of the historical memory of Polish society, as evidenced by the return to the discussions around the Volyn tragedy, is on the agenda. recalculation of the number of victims of the Ukrainian-Polish confrontation during the Second World War, manipulation and overestimation of the numbers of Polish victims of the conflict. The facts cited pointlessly demonstrate that the current Ukrainian-Polish controversy is the result of all the same old problems, however, with new faces. The author sees this "new face" in the manifestation of hypertrophied and distorted nationalism, which the modern political elite of Poland took as a conceptual doctrine in shaping the state policy of national memory.