Розділ 5. ПРОВОКАТИВНА РОЛЬ РАДЯНСЬКИХ СПЕЦСЛУЖБ ТА ПРОПАГАНДИ В ПЕРІОД НІМЕЦЬКО-ПОЛЬСЬКОЇ ВІЙНИ 1939 р.

The purpose of the proposed paper is a historiographical study of the Soviet Union Red Army and the NKVD provocative role at the initial stage of the Second World War – period of the German-Polish war and so-called Soviet troops «liberation campaign» in the southeastern provinces of Poland in modern Ukrainian historiography. An important place in the implementation of the Soviet plans for the occupation of Western Ukraine in September 1939 was given to the formation of «decent» motives for the inclusion USSR in the Second World War on the side of the aggressor – Germany, by means of manipulative and propaganda tools. Violating previous bilateral agreements with Poland and their international legal obligations, the Soviet special services and party structures actively undermined the internal political position of the Polish state in the territories of Eastern Galicia and Western Volhynia through the press and visual propaganda in the first weeks of September 1939, when the Polish Army put up a courageous resistance to German army from the west. The work, based on a careful study of modern Ukrainian historiography, analyzes in detail the provocative context of Soviet propaganda narratives according to the main themes, scope of application and objects of influence.