Ukrainian collaborationism from the standpoint of the russian occupation regimes in the XX and early XXI centuries. Collaboration with the enemy in war conditions. Polish-Ukrainian experiences

Abstract

Russian imperial power presented the Russian monarchy, the Bolshevik dictatorship, or Putin’s state based on normative legal acts or masquerading under the mythologies of creating a single „Soviet” nation – has always been trying to destroy the Ukrainian nation. Accordingly, Ukrainian national self-identification was sufficient to accuse a person of collaborating with the enemy. According to this concept, the Russian government throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries systematically and consistently destroyed centers of Ukrainian culture, political structures, and bright personalities who produced and were the exponents of the Ukrainian national idea.