Political Motives and Consequences of the Resettlement of Ukrainians from Poland to the Ukrainian SSR in 1944–1950 (Based on Materials from the Western Ukrainian Regions)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2021.03.103Keywords:
resettlement, deportation, relocation, Ukrainians from Poland, migrants, Ukrainian SSRAbstract
The purpose of the article is to analyze the political motives and consequences of the deportation of Ukrainians from Poland to the Ukrainian SSR in 1944–1950, the activities of Soviet and Polish state structures that initiated and organized such displacement, their resettlement in Ukraine, ways of integration into economic and social life.
The methodology is based on the principles of historicism, systematic, unbiased approach to assessing the objectivity of sources, their integrated use and representativeness, paying special attention to identifying a new layer of the source base on the research topic.
Scientific novelty. The issues of political aspects and sociodemographic consequences of resettlement of Ukrainians from Poland to the Ukrainian SSR in 1944–1950 were singled out and comprehensively analyzed.
Conclusion. The resettlement of Ukrainians in the USSR in 1944–1946 from ethnic lands that became part of the Polish state in the postwar period was carried out by force without regard to the will of the local population. The displacement of huge masses of Ukrainians and Poles was associated with the incredible human suffering of a spiritual, psychological and material nature, which still makes itself felt in the minds of hundreds of thousands of deported people. Despite the plans of the Soviet authorities to send the bulk of those displaced from Kholm, Nadsiannia and Lemkivshchyna to the eastern regions of Ukraine, in the early 1950s in six western regions of the Ukrainian SSR (Volyn, Drohobych, Lviv, Rivne, Stanislav, Ternopil) found permanent residence 98,651 families of migrants from Poland, almost 80% of their total number.
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