I've heard this common phrase "history is written by the victors" before but with the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war I started to realize how big of a difference there can be between different accounts of it.
Current events led me on a hunt for some historical information about USSR vs "West" relations from the year 1800 onwards.
I am Polish and one point of contention here when discussing Ukrainian refugees is the Volhynia (Wołyń) massacre. I know that some people in my country still hold a grudge against Ukrainians for that particular event but after reading a Wikipedia article (which seemed to recount both sides of the story) I realized that our nation wasn't much better during that period.
That exact article made me realize that many events in our history taught as facts might not be facts in the first place or might as well be only a part of the whole story.
Even though it is impossible to avoid historical inaccuracies, how do you separate un-biased (or as un-biased as possible) information from propaganda when it comes to world history? Where can I find the best sources?
There's always more that can be said, but /u/DanKensington recently posted an answer on a thread about bias in history textbooks that itself refers back to other prior answers on related topics regarding the nature of bias and objectivity as well.
Very, very specifically about Volhynia/Wołyń I would recommend Timothy Snyder's Reconstruction of Nations, since this and Wilno/Vilnius are the two regions he focuses on in the book.
Snyder tends to look at Eastern European history specifically from a Polish perspective but overall he's aware that you can't really reconstruct an accurate understanding of events like those in Volhynia/Wołyń by just listening to the narrative of one or even both "sides". He tries to get into the historic context and also has a good epilogue that examines how Ukraine and Poland have been in historic dialogue since 1990 about the events in Volhynia/Wołyń.