УКРАЇНСЬКО-ПОЛЬСЬКІ ВЗАЄМИНИ У РОКИ ДРУГОЇ СВІТОВОЇ ВІЙНИ У СВІТЛІ КОНСПІРАТИВНОЇ ПРЕСИ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИХ ПІДПІЛЬ

The article analyzes difficult Ukrainian-Polish relations during World War II through the prism of periodicals of the national underground. In recent decades, domestic historians have actualized the search for sources that would enable the historical reconstruction of the microwar in Western Ukraine. Based on the analysis, it is shown that the «underground press», «secret press», «secret press» are essential sources for analyzing the causes and course of the Ukrainian-Polish conflict. It is emphasized that the figures of victims in specific settlements differ and need to be verified. The secret publications of the national underground reflected the position of a certain part of society and the parties to the confrontation. This represents the publication in conspiratorial publications of the appeals of Stronnictwa Narodowego, Obozu Narodowo-Radykalnego, and other national representations. The authors of Polish publications shift the responsibility for the «Volyn tragedy» to the Ukrainian side. Materials of periodicals allow us to pay special attention to the position of Mitr. Andrei Sheptytskyi on interethnic conflict. The Ukrainian-Polish antagonism that already existed took on particularly acute forms during World War II and was used by both communist and National Socialist totalitarian regimes. Attention is drawn to how the representatives of the Ukrainian and Polish national liberation movements saw and understood the influence of a third party (the Third Reich and the USSR) on the escalation of the interethnic conflict. The methods used by the Hitlerite and Soviet regimes to achieve their goals are shown. At the same time, it is stated that the materials of secret publications require a critical attitude and comparison of the information of their authors with the data of other sources.