In Ukraine, on April 28, victims of the forced resettlement of our compatriots to the northwestern regions of Poland are recalled as part of Operation Wisla,.
The deportation of Ukrainians from the ethnic territories of the Lemkivshchina, Kholmschina, Nadsyanya and Podlyashia was carried out by the joint forces of the USSR, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
AT 4. 00:00 am six Polish divisions (about 17 thousand people) and departments of the General Public Security Corps (the name of the bodies of the Polish Security Service) surrounded the territories on which the Ukrainian population densely resided. At the same time, the departments of the NKVD and the Czechoslovak army blocked the eastern and southern borders of Poland from Brest to Novye Sancha.
On "new" places, the displaced persons were left abandoned, often disfigured by the former German owners. Ukrainians deprived the church, school and other opportunities to develop their own social and cultural life. Polish authorities persecuted even the slightest manifestations of domestic cultivation of Ukrainian national and cultural traditions.
The action was often accompanied by violence: Ukrainian houses were burned, the old churches were destroyed, representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia and the peasantry were imprisoned in the concentration camp in the Jaworzno-Krakow voivodship, created especially for the "suspicious" Ukrainians in the territory of the former Nazi concentration camp "Auschwitz-Birkenau".
According to Polish data, 140.5 thousand people were resettled during the operation. 173 people were shot.
Picture clickable In the mid-1950s, Poland at the political level for the first time expressed a negative attitude towards the methods of conducting the action, but not to the operation itself. In 1956, the settlers were given the opportunity to change their place of residence by prior permission.
On August 3, 1990 the Senate of the Republic of Poland condemned the action "Vistula".
In February 2007, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in a joint statement condemned the action "Wisla". On April 5, 2007, Yushchenko signed Decree No.
274 "On the measures for the 60th anniversary of Operation Wisla, where the forced resettlement of ethnic Ukrainians was called terrible events in the history of Ukraine.
As reported by the "Observer, on the eve of the anniversary of the infamous operation, Polish nationalists dismantled the UPA monument near Peremishl.
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