Post–World War II Polonization
gravestone removed german inscriptions on cemetery in gliwice. visible changing of name karl polish karol
during operation vistula of 1947, soviet-controlled polish communist authorities removed support base ukrainian insurgent army forcibly resettling 141,000 civilians residing around bieszczady , low beskids northern areas of so-called recovered territories awarded allies poland in post-war settlement. farmers received financial polish government , took on homes , farms left behind escaping germans, in cases improving living conditions due increased size of newly reassigned properties, brick buildings, , running water. dr zbigniew palski ipn explains identical operation performed in ukraine ukrainian soviet socialist republic @ same time. dubbed operation west. both operations coordinated moscow; however, there shocking difference between outcomes.
while operation vistula underway in south-western poland, soviet nkvd deported on 114,000 women , children west ukraine kazakh ssr , siberia during parallel operation west. 19,000 men among soviet deportees, of them sent coal mines , stone quarries in north. none of families deported nkvd received farms or empty homes live in. instantaneously forced extreme poverty , hunger. dr zbigniew palski informs during operation vistula none of 3 conditions of united nations charter of 26 june 1945 possible struggle toward own self-determination among polish deportees broken @ time. other international laws in effect.
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