Українсько-польські та литовсько-польські взаємини в роки Другої світової війни: студія компаративна конспіративних видань

The research aims to analyse the materials of national underground publications devoted to Ukrainian-Polish and Lithuanian-Polish relations and reflecting the position of the parties. Studying the issues of the Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Polish illegal publishing movement is an important element of expanding the source material for studies of the history of the Second World War. The article describes the most important aspects that determined the nature and content of illegal publications. Among other things, the author outlines the historical background of tensions in the Ukraine-Lithuania-Poland triangle (the experience of the national liberation struggle of 1917-1920 and the interwar period), which did not contribute to a positive vision of Ukrainian-Polish and Lithuanian-Polish relations. It is no coincidence that a study of the contents of underground publications revealed facts of hatred between Ukrainians and Poles, Lithuanians and Poles, recorded in their pages. The article also highlights the understanding by representatives of Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Polish politics of the influence of the main geopolitical players in the Great War - the Third Reich and the USSR - on relations between the nations. The analysis of the content of the publications of national undergrounds allowed us to identify the fundamental position that laid the foundation for the inevitability of the conflict - the issue of territories. The position of that part of Polish society that did not recognise Ukrainians and Lithuanians as equal partners was recognised as fundamentally flawed. Special attention should be paid to information on specific cases of attacks and civilian casualties. It is important to trace the tendencies towards negotiations between former adversaries against the background of the danger posed by the common enemy, the USSR. The inextricable link between the future of Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland, when the freedom of one state and nation is impossible without the freedom of another, needs and deserves special emphasis. The author points out the need to verify the data provided in underground magazines. The root of the problem lies in the objectivity of the coverage of events and in the specifics of the presentation of information by national underground publications.