This is an automatically translated description

Yurko Tiutiunyk's memoirs are not just the memoirs of a contemporary, but primarily an act of accusation. Ukrainian emigration and Polish diplomacy are sitting next to each other in the dock. And while reading the memoirs, one does not know which of the two defendants is more guilty, on whom the harsh judgement of history must fall."

On 18 March 1921, the Treaty of Riga was signed between the Soviet Republics and Poland. From the time of ratification of this treaty - from April to April of the same year - Poland could not allow any organisations hostile to Ukraine and Russia to exist on its territory. Nevertheless, throughout the summer of 1921, the emigrant and European press shouted with one voice that Petliura was preparing a campaign in Ukraine, that his headquarters in Lviv was on the alert, that he would eventually be provided with material assistance from the Allied powers, especially Poland and France. Defectors and fugitives from the Polish democratic paradise reported that interned Ukrainians were being formed on Polish territory and would soon be thrown into Ukraine under the guise of insurgents.