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1078:– people who were undecided as to whether they considered themselves Polish or Belarusian.Much of the rural population, who usually had no official identity documents, were denied the "right" of repatriation on the basis that they did not have documents stating they were Polish citizens. In what was described as a "fight for the people", Polish officials attempted to get as many people repatriated as possible, whereas the Belarusian officials tried to retain them, particularly the peasants, while deporting most of the Polish 837:, during which Polish estates were burned, and roads, rail lines and telephone connections were destroyed. The OUN used terrorism and sabotage in order to force the Polish government into actions that would cause a loss of support for the more moderate Ukrainian politicians ready to negotiate with the Polish state. OUN directed its violence not only against the Poles but also against Jews and other Ukrainians who wished for a peaceful resolution to the Polish–Ukrainian conflict. 1146:" declared that many people who identified as Polish were in fact "polonized Lithuanians". The rural population was denied the right to leave Lithuania, due to their lack of official pre-war documentation showing Polish citizenship. Contrary to the government's agreement with Poland, many individuals were threatened with either arrest or having to settle outstanding debts if they chose repatriation. Soviet authorities persecuted individuals connected to the Polish resistance ( 20: 2196: 2175: 2250: 1053:
in Lviv characterized these acts as attempts to hasten the deportation of Poles from their city. Those arrested were released after they signed papers agreeing to emigrate to Poland. It is difficult to establish the exact number of Poles expelled from Lviv, but it was estimated as between 100,000 and
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put the number of deported Polish citizens at 1,500,000 and some Polish estimates reach 1,600,000 to 1,800,000 persons, historians consider these evaluations as exaggerated. Alexander Guryanov calculated that 309,000 up to 312,000 Poles were deported from February 1940 to June 1941. According to N.S.
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during World War II was subsequently accompanied by the Soviets forcibly deporting hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens to distant parts of the Soviet Union: Siberia and Central Asia. Five years later, for the first time, the Supreme Soviet formally acknowledged that the Polish nationals expelled
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before 17 September 1939, and their families), what property they could take with them, and what aid they would receive from the corresponding governments. The resettlement was divided into two phases: first, the eligible citizens were registered as wishing to be resettled; second, their request was
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The residents of the Western Ukraine and Byelorussia, as well as those of the Wilno district, which had been annexed to the Soviet Union under the Ribentrop-Molotov pact of 23 August and 28 September 1939, had all been under German occupation for between two and half to three years, and were finally
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In the autumn of 1935, Stalin ordered a new wave of mass deportations of Poles from the western republics of the Soviet Union. This was also the time of his purges of different classes of people, many of whom were killed. Poles were expelled from the border regions to resettle the area with ethnic
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was considered a historical capital of Lithuania; however, in the early 20th century its population was around 40% Polish, 30% Jewish and 20% Russian and Belarusian, with only about 2–3% self-declared Lithuanians. The government considered the rural Polish population important to the agricultural
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and the USSR, was a deliberate distortion, as deported peoples were leaving their homeland rather than returning to it. It is also sometimes referred to as the 'first repatriation' action, in contrast with the 'second repatriation' of 1955–1959. In a wider context, it is sometimes described as a
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to be reviewed and approved by the corresponding governments. About 750,000 Poles and Jews from the western regions of Ukraine were deported, as well as about 200,000 each from western Belarus and from Lithuanian SSR each. The deportations continued until 1 August 1946.
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arrested 772 Poles in Lviv (where, according to Soviet sources, on 1 October 1944, Poles represented 66.75% of population), among them 14 professors, 6 doctors, 2 engineers, 3 artists, and 5 Catholic priests. The Polish community was outraged about the arrests. The
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According to official data, during the state-controlled expulsion between 1945 and 1946, roughly 1,167,000 Poles left the westernmost republics of the Soviet Union, less than 50% of those who registered for population transfer. Another major
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and other major centers in Eastern Poland to sit fast and not evacuate, promising that during peaceful discussions they would be able to keep Lwów within Poland. In response, Khrushchev introduced a different approach to dealing with this
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Russians and Ukrainians, but Stalin had them deported to the far reaches of Siberia and Central Asia. In 1935 alone 1,500 families were deported to Siberia from Soviet Ukraine. In 1936, 5,000 Polish families were deported to
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Takie postrzeganie "zagranicznych Polaków" potwierdza chociażby tzw. pierwsza kampania powrotowa (zwana niesłusznie repatriacją), którą komuniści zainicjowali niemal od razu po zakończeniu II wojny światowej.
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The resettlement of ethnic Poles from Lithuania saw numerous delays. Local Polish clergy were active in agitating against leaving, and the underground press called those who had registered for repatriation
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annexed to the Soviet Union in 1944. The speedy exodus of Poles from these regions was meant to erase their Polish past and to confirm the fact that the regions were indeed part of the Soviet Union.
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Beginning in 1920, the Bolshevik and nationalist terror campaigns of the new war triggered the flight of Poles and Jews from Soviet Russia to newly sovereign Poland. In 1922 Bolshevik Russian
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after the Soviet invasion were not Soviet citizens, but foreign subjects. Two decrees were signed on 22 June and 16 August 1944 to facilitate the release of Polish nationals from captivity.
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1154:). In the end, about 50% of the 400,000 people registered for relocation were allowed to leave. Political scientist Dovilė Budrytė estimated that about 150,000 people left for Poland. 470:. Similarly, the Soviet Union had enforced policies between 1939 and 1941 which targeted and expelled ethnic Poles residing in the Soviet zone of occupation following the Nazi-Soviet 422: 2041:. The Baltic and Arctic Areas under Stalin: Ethnic Minorities in the Great Soviet Terror of 1937-38. Umeå University, Sweden: Umeå International Research Group. ; Prof Musial of 981:
was forced to intercede and approach Stalin to slow down the deportation, as the post-war Polish government was overwhelmed by the sudden great number of refugees needing aid.
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The Soviet "population exchanges" of 1944-1946 ostensibly concerned citizens of prewar Poland, but in fact Poles and Jews were sent west, whereas Ukrainians had to stay in
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The Lithuanian communist party was dominated by a nationalist faction which supported the removal of the Polish intelligentsia, particularly from the highly contested
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in 1595-96, when the Metropolitan of Kyiv-Halych broke relations with the Eastern Orthodox Church and accepted the authority of the Roman Catholic Pope and Vatican.
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The postwar population transfers were part of an official Soviet policy that affected more than one million Polish citizens, who were removed in stages from the
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argues that various other smaller deportations, prisoners of war and political prisoners should be added for a grand total of 400,000 to 500,000 deported.
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was signed in 1921. The Soviet Union did not officially exist before 31 December 1922. The disputed territories were split in Riga between the
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Lebedeva the deportations involved about 250,000 persons. The most conservative Polish counts based on Soviet documents and published by the
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Stalinowska depolonizacja Kresów Wschodnich II Rzeczpospolitej (Stalinist de-Polonization of the Eastern Borderlands of the 2nd Republic)
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The history of ethnic Polish settlement in what is now Ukraine and Belarus dates to 1030–31. More Poles migrated to this area after the
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The document regarding the resettlement of Poles from the Ukrainian and Belorussian SSRs to Poland was signed 9 September 1944 in
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to Poland. After these hopes vanished, the number of people wanting to leave gradually increased, and they signed papers for the
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did not actively support deportation of Poles. Belarusian officials made it difficult for Polish activists to communicate with
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and Lithuanization of the city (80% of the local Polish population left Vilnius). Furthermore, the Lithuanian ideology of "
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were generally willing to depart. The history of Volhynia, as an ancient multi-confessional society, had come to an end.
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of the eastern lands. Social and ethnic conflicts arose regarding the differences in religious practices between the
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of the USSR, during the conferences at Tehran and Yalta. The Polish transfers were among the largest of several
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In response, Poland followed a similar process in regards to the Belarusian population of the territory of the
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But the government encouraged expulsion of Poles from Vilnius, and facilitated it. The result was a rapid
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became strained, the Polish Democratic Council of Kyiv supported the Ukrainian side in its conflict with
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by the Russian imperial army in 1864 in the single largest deportation action undertaken within the
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of these areas during and after the world war. The process was planned and carried out by the
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of 1917-1922 brought an end to the Russian Empire. According to Ukrainian sources from the
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economy, and believed those people would be relatively amenable to assimilation policies (
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of 1943, Kresy was formally incorporated into the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Lithuanian
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By 1944, the population of ethnic Poles in Western Ukraine was 1,182,100. The
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In contrast to actions in the Ukrainian SSR, the communist officials in the
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The Polish government-in-exile in London directed their organizations (see
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in 1997 amounted to a grand total of 320,000 persons deported. Sociologist
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in London affirmed its position of retaining the 1939 borders.
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Index


Curzon Line
territorial changes of Poland
Kresy
Recovered Territories
a series
Forced population transfer
in the Soviet Union

Dekulakization
Evacuation
Forced settlements
Gulag
Azerbaijanis from Armenia
Balkars
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Chechens and Ingush
Chinese
Crimean Tatars
Estonians
NKVD operation
Germans
from Romania
NKVD operation
Greeks
NKVD operation
Harbinites
Ingrian Finns
NKVD operation
Kalmyks
Karachays
Koreans

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