title: Chapter 9 Ukrainians' perception of Galicia and Volhynia at the beginning of the Second World War
abstract: There was no unity in Eastern Europe's assessment of the events of the first weeks of September 1939 by Ukrainians in Galicia and Volyn. It can be argued that among the vast majority of them (as, after all, among the majority of people of other nationalities in the mentioned regions) the perception of reality as the German-Polish war prevailed, and at the same time there was no awareness that the Second World War began as a global geopolitical conflict and what colossal human costs and it will c