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Critique
Volodymyr Viatrovych's book about the rallies of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in Czechoslovakia touched little explored area and Grzegorz Motyka states that this work has been appreciated.

His book "Ставлення ОУН до євреїв: формування позиції на тлі катастрофи" ("The Attitude of the OUN to the Jews. The Formation of a Position in Light of a Catastrophe") has been criticized by John-Paul Himka, Taras Kurylo, Per Anders Rudling and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe. The critics claim that this book is an attempt to deny the crimes of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) on Jews and to dismiss the allegations of its anti-Semitism. In the opinion of Kurylo and Himka, this work does less to understanding history, but does much to distort it, however it contains an interesting material and forms the basis for further discussions on the relationship of the OUN and UPA to Jews.

The book "Друга польсько-українська війна. 1942—1947" ("The Second Polish-Ukrainian War. 1942-1947") was met with criticism from historians Ihor Ilyushyn, Andrij Portnov, Grzegorz Motyka, Andrzej Zięba, Per Anders Rudling, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Andrzej Leon Sowa and Grzegorz Hryciuk. In the book V.Viatrovych presented his interpretation of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict during the years 1939-1947, including massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, as a war between Poles and Ukrainians. According to Portnov, Viatrovych tries to prove that there was no order of OUN’s leadership for the extermination of the Polish minority, and the killings in Volhynia were a spontaneous rebellion of Ukrainian peasants, provoked by the Poles. According to Motyka, Viatrovych achieves this goal by rhetorical devices and by ignoring inconvenient facts. According to Andrzej Zięba, the book passes over or outright falsifies certain materials in aim to "absolve" OUN-UPA and to rally Ukrainians around nationalist positions. Also Andrii Portnov argues that the aim of the book serves UPA apologetics and political motives

The critics of the book claim that by using word "war" in regard to relations between Poles and Ukrainians the author tries to hide the OUN-UPA's ethnic cleansing of the Polish population. According to Rossoliński-Liebe and Rudling, the way Viatrovych denies crimes against Poles differs little from his denial of anti-Jewish violence. Rudling recommends "The Second Polish-Ukrainian War" to the readers only as an object of comparative studies of far-right revisionism and obfuscation. In the opinion of Hryciuk, the version of the events presented in the book is untrue.

Motyka states that the book is gaining in value in the section on the SS-Galizien Division and the fate of the Ukrainian population in Poland in the years 1945-1947. However, as a whole he considers it as unsuccessful work. A similar position is expressed by Sowa.

Portnov notes that "The Second Polish-Ukrainian War" was met in Ukraine with enthusiasm and without critical opinions.