Proti „fašistickým bandám UPA“ Ukrajinci v propagandě lidového Polska
Against the ‘Fascist Gangs of the UPA’: Ukrainians in the Propaganda of the People’s Republic of Poland

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses Ukrainian topics in Polish Communist propaganda, which have till now been largely ignored in both Poland and the Ukraine, even though the post-war struggle against ‘Ukrainian nationalists’ constituted a lasting element of the propaganda repertoire of the Polish People’s Republic. He also discusses how these topics were developed and passed on in Polish periodicals, belles-lettres, fi lm, and historiography and he seeks to explain the impact this has had on Polish public discourse since the collapse of Communism. This propaganda drew its basic material from the struggle of the Polish armed forces against the partisans divisions of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrayins’ka Povstans’ka Armiya – UPA), which operated in southeast Poland beginning in 1945. Before the establishment of the Communist regime, it was mainly the non-Communist political parties and the armed anti-Communist underground who identifi ed with it. After the second half of the 1940s, this propaganda grew quiet, and was not revived until 1956, in connection with endeavours to increase the prestige of the army;

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