Part 2. THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UKRAINIAN INSURGENT ARMY (UPA): TWO TRUTHS DO NOT EXIST

Around the world, Ukrainians are observing the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the legendary fighters of the 1940s and 1950s who bravely fought for the freedom of Ukraine. On June 25, 2017 the Ukrainian Australian community in Victoria commemorated the 75th anniversary of UPA in Melbourne at Ukrainian House, Essendon. The Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, historian Dr Volodymyr Vyatrovych, delivered a keynote speech. Dr Volodymyr Vyatrovych is the director of the Institute of National Memory of Ukraine (since 2014) and was in 2008-2010 director of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) Archive (2008-2010), which incorporates the archives of the security services of the Ukrainian SSR. Dr Vyatrovych defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation in Ukrainian history at Lviv University in 2004. He is the author, among other monographs, of The Second Polish-Ukrainian War 1942-1947 (2011), The Standpoint of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists Toward Jews: The Shaping of a Policy in the Context of a Catastrophe (2006), and a series of studies titled History Stamped Secret (2011-2014), based on archival materials in previously secret Soviet security service archives. Volodymyr Vyatrovychs books have addressed some of the most contested and divisive issues of Ukrainian wartime and post-war history. http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/ukrainian/uk/content/ukraine-has-european-history-ukraine-fight-freedom?language=uk

Melbourne. The 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Source: SBS Ukrainian