Ukraine: Its Inner Enemy — Beyond the Front and Beyond Peace
The collapse of empires in the 1920s–30s marked for the Poles the construction of their new national state. However, the problem of the new Polish territories and the people living there quickly arose. The southeastern Polish lands — now western Ukraine — were subjected to a policy of forced assimilation. Any political activity based on the idea of Ukrainian identity, and even more so on the pursuit of autonomy, was prohibited.






