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@ Louis Dupont
2025-02-23 16:46:45
(ChatGPT) In the 1920s, Poland and Ukraine conducted joint military operations against Soviet Russia. In April 1920, Polish Marshal Józef Piłsudski and the leader of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, Symon Petliura, signed a military alliance aimed at creating an independent Ukraine allied with Poland. This collaboration led to the Kiev offensive in May 1920, where Polish and Ukrainian forces initially took control of Kiev before being repelled by a Red Army counteroffensive.
In contrast, during the 1940s, relations between Poles and Ukrainians were marked by tensions and conflicts, notably due to the massacres of Poles in Volhynia between 1943 and 1944, perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists. These events left deep scars in the relations between the two nations.
Thus, while Poland and Ukraine collaborated militarily against a common enemy in the 1920s, the 1940s were characterized by internal conflicts rather than joint operations against Russia.