PUTIN’S «SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION»: THE FATE OF UKRAINIANS DISPLACED FROM POLAND AFTER THE SEC- OND WORLD WAR
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29038/2524-2679-2022-03-193-208Keywords:
«exchange of population», immigrants, «special military operation», full-scale war, strategic plansAbstract
During the first decade of this century, the authors in the archives of Canada and Poland collected a lot of documentary about the «Ukrainian question» during the Second World War and about the voluntary-forced «exchange of population» with Poland. Together with two co-authors published on this base a three-volume study on that «exchange» and its consequences for displaced Ukrainians. The publication embraced not only the process of resettlement, but also the adapta- tion of those persons to new living conditions. The title of the publication refers to the Ukrainians from Kholm and Pidlash areas. However, after the arrival of displaced Ukrainians to the Ukrainian SSR from all the lands within the borders of Poland, the authors did not have the opportunity to identify among the mass of newcomers persons from Kholm and Pidlash areas. Therefore, the study was actually about all those transported from Poland.
As it became later known, the fate of displaced in the Soviet reality was not the best way, and not only at the level of material and domestic, but also the affairs of national and political, about what is finally the time to speak frankly. Since the beginning of 2014, the Russian Federation unilaterally began to revise borders with Ukraine, which agreed at the time of the collapse of the USSR. It began with the pseudo referendum in the Crimea and the invasion of the Donbas and the cre- ation of pseudo-republics there, which in February 2022 the Russian Federation hastily recognized, and a day later, on February 24, Putin announced a «special military operation» against Ukraine, as if for their protection, which actually pur- sues the goal of liquidation the Ukrainian state and returning «the lost».
So, the authors are wondering why the former USSR (in fact, the Russian empire, only under the umbrella of the «Federation of Free Peoples») so zealously united all Ukrainians, both by moving them from other countries and now destroy that state, and make Ukrainians forget about their own identity.
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