“Action-51. Why Stalin gave Poland to Western Ukrainian lands six years after World War I and was replaced on February 22, 08:35 NV Premium to share: celebrations of territories at the monument to Joseph Stalin in Ostraki-Dolishna, 1951 (photo: WFDIF): Irina of Lviv in February 1951 of the USSR and Communist Poland concluded A secret agreement in Moscow on a peaceful exchange of territories of 480 km². To the end”, – Write On: ua.news
Celebrations of territories near the monument to Joseph Stalin in the Ostraki-Dolishnyi, 1951 (photo: WFDIF)
In February 1951, the USSR and Communist Poland concluded a secret agreement in Moscow on a peaceful exchange of territories of 480 km². By the end of November, nearly 47,000 people who lived on these lands on both sides of the border were forcibly deported to the uninhabited regions.
Special operation under code Action HT She became a common tragedy for 32.066 people who lived in the Soviet Union and for 14.151 Poland of that time. Ukrainians, Poles, Jews came under the forced migration, and mostly fights and Lemkos, who, after the Second World War, became citizens of two different countries.
The purpose of the action was to adjust the Polish-Soviet border established in 1945 on the Bug River, and explained the need to exchange territories “the needs of the national economy. ” Poland then received a small area of oil rich in oil, and the USSR – coal deposits and rail infrastructure. The Soviet and Polish communist authorities walked through a sharp scalpel on the fate of people who have been equipped in these places for more than one generation.
No one had the right to choose a place for a new apartment.
Those who had a Polish passport were relocated to Beshans Or on the western and northern lands obtained from Germany. And the citizens of the USSR were taken by cargo wagons to the steppe zones of Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Donbass.
