Scześniak Antoni, Szota Wiesław- Droga donikąd. Activities of the Ukrainian nationalist organization and its liquidation in Poland [Warsaw 1973].

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Warsaw 1973/ Ministry of National Defense/ first edition/16.5x24cm/s.586/ black and white photographs in the text/ publisher's binding, linen + paper wrapper/ good condition, minor damage to the wrapper, soiled side trim of pages

First edition, quickly withdrawn from bookstore circulation by the authorities

Low circulation

"The first edition of this book, titled Road to Nowhere (Warsaw 1973), was withdrawn from bookstores in the People's Republic of Poland in an atmosphere of scandal after the intervention of the USSR embassy. It openly and on the basis of available sources presented the history of the struggle against the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the southeastern borderlands of Poland." The authors, employees of the Military Historical Institute, suffered consequences.Antoni Szczesniak was demoted and sent to the "professional periphery."

The basis for the 1973 edition of the book The Road to Nowhere was A. B. Szczesniak's doctoral dissertation, and the introduction to the book was written by W. Z. Szota (Chapter I, up to page 64). The first edition of the book was published by the Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense and numbered 3,500 pieces. Unfortunately, the book did not reach a wide readership at the time and was quickly withdrawn from sale. The publishing house received a letter from the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which stated "that the book was harmful to current party propaganda and that the book's reach should be limited "i. Most likely, it was considered "that the book could be used for propaganda by the Ukrainian emigration in its struggle against the Soviet system "ii, and the action to withdraw the work from sale resulted from the intervention of the USSR embassy.