THE DESTRUCTION OF THE POLISH COLONY OF PYSHIVKA IN THE SPRING 1944 IN THE REFLECTION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PEOPLE’S STORY TRADITION

Abstract

Summary. The purpose of the study is to discover how the Ukrainian folk-narrative tradition in the records of the end of the 20th century – the beginning of the 21st century reflects and comprehends one of the numerous Polish-Ukrainian armed conflicts of the mid-twentieth century – the destruction by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the spring of 1944 of the Polish colony Pyshivka. To track how respondents of all ages, genders, cultural and educational backgrounds, ideological and political beliefs and moral values view this event. Also, to find out how their historical memory correlates with the features of Ukrainian-Polish socio-political, economic, economic and moral outlook in the period of Ukrainian independence. The methodological basis is the method of hermeneutics as an art of understanding textual discourse, as well as as commenting on and interpreting a work of art through a mental-analytical and intuitive comprehension of its ideological, artistic, psycho-emotional sense. And also a historical method of research, which is to study the chronological sequence of occurrence, formation and development of events, phenomena or other objects, which contributes to an in-depth understanding of their essence. Scientific novelty For the first time in Ukrainian folklore science and historical science the original source database was collected, and on the basis of it the genesis and dynamics of the epic-historical memory of the local people are analyzed about the unexplored moment of past Polish-Ukrainian confrontation. At the same time, it is traced how this memory influences the formation of the outlook-value and behavioral characteristics of this environment. We conclude that comprehension by the narrative tradition of the destruction of Pyshivka takes place in two planes- socio-political, militaristic on the one hand, and Christian-moral humanistic on the other. There is a tendency that the farther the narrators are from the realities of national liberation struggl not being eyewitnesses themselves the less is their interested in it from print or other sources, so their comprehension becomes more humanistic and moral. They sincerely regret what happened, show a subconscious complex of guilt, and hence focus more on peaceful, friendly attitude to war.