Łemkowski bilans XX stulecia

Lemkos is the farthest western ethnographic group of Ukrainians. The territory they inhabit consists of a triangular wedge jutting into West Slavic settlement, with Poles to the north and Slovacs to the south. In this paper author has analyzed situation of Lemkos in the XX century. Their situation is really difficult. The process of assimilation is coming on in extraneous enviroment. So threre is a threat of total disappearance of Lemkos in terms of seperate cultural group. The attempt of creating own, seperate Lemkos nationality seems to be impossible. Only reception of Ukrainian national identity opens a window of opportunity to salvage remains of Lemkos tradition.