Останній командир УПА. Життя і боротьба Василя Кука

There are people of eras, and there are people of several eras. Vasyl Kuk, the last commander of the UPA, was such a person. He was born before the First World War, survived the horrors of the Second World War, the rise and fall of the UPA, was captured by the Soviets and, together with Ukraine, received the desired freedom in 1991. How did family trouble affect his views? When did he catch fire with the idea of armed struggle? How did he survive the death of brothers Ilka and Ilaria, who were executed for Ukrainian statehood? How did he build the OUN network in Dnipropetrovsk and stay underground in Volyn and Galicia? How did he continue the quiet struggle in the 1970s and 1980s and get a "second wind" after independence? Historian Alina Ponypalyak answers all these questions.

The author researched archival data and memories of people who knew Vasyl Kuk personally, talked with relatives, visited the place where he was born, lived and worked. All this helped to show what Cook was like and how he fought for Ukrainian independence.

Alina Ponypalyak - candidate of historical sciences, researcher of the Ukrainian liberation movement, scientist of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, co-coordinator of the public initiative "Turn off Russian".