Foreign policy orientations post-war USSR (1945—1947)

Abstract

The presented article is devoted to an important period of national history, its first postwar years (1945—1947). This paper raises the issue of the formation of the foreign policy segment in the life of the post-war Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Based on the analysis of the events of that time, the author gives a list of defining for the then Ukraine areas of foreign policy of the USSR and the USSR. Among the latter are the following: legitimization of the new western borders of Ukraine by signing the Soviet-Czechoslovak (June 29, 1945), Soviet-Polish (August 16, 1945) and Soviet-Romanian (February 10, 1947) agreements; formation of bilateral relations of the USSR with other countries of the world; Ukraine's participation in international humanitarian cooperation, in particular, its receipt of assistance from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRRA); the inclusion of Ukraine in the orbit of the newest Slavic movement, and in fact, actualized in the postwar period of Slavophilism, the homeland and ideological inspiration of which Ukraine, in fact, has been since the mid-nineteenth century; exposing the foreign policy activity of the Ukrainian SSR in relation to the Bandera movement, aimed at discrediting it internationally and finally exposing its treacherous nature in the eyes of the Ukrainian people. The presented article is written on the materials of the Book Chamber of Ukraine. The author presents the little-known and, in fact, unused Ukrainian Soviet socio-political magazine Modern and Future.