Сучасний польський націоналізм та українсько-польські суперечності – нові обличчя старих проблем.

Abstract

The modern Ukrainian-Polish intergovernmental relations mostly depends on the political elites’ positions who are in power in both countries. With the coming to power of “Law and Justice” right-wing political party in the republic of Poland, interstate and international contradictions concerning the common history and its interpretation got intensify significantly, the acts of vandalism concerning the places of national memory became more frequent on the both sides of UkrainianPolish border. The desire for interdisciplinary understanding and reconciliation, unfortunately, is often replaced by mutual accusations and claims.It is proved in the article that the polish nationalism and related to it conceptions are influenced on the formation of the modern foreign policy of the Republic of Poland in a great way. The events of the First World War, an international Ukrainian-Polish confrontation in Volhynia during the Second World War, become the subject of political manipulations and affect Ukrainian-Polish relations negatively.