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   Rob Hansen

   12 September 2016

   POLISH GENOCIDE DONE TO ETHNIC UKRAINIANS !!!

   Operation Vistula – Deportations and Repressions

   Deportations and Repressions

   According to the order of the Ministry of Recovered Territories “the main goal of the relocation of ‘W’ settlers is their assimilation into a new Polish environment, all efforts should be exerted to that end. Do not apply the term ‘Ukrainians’ to the settlers. In cases when the intelligentsia element reaches the recovered territories, they should be settled separately and away from the communities of the ‘W’ settlers.”

   The operation was carried out by Operational Group Vistula consisting of about 20,000 personnel commanded by General Stefan Mossor. This personnel included soldiers of the Polish People’s Army and the Internal Security Corps, as well as functionaries of the police Milicja Obywatelska and the Security Service Urząd Bezpieczeństwa. The operation commenced at 4 a.m., April 28, 1947. The expellees comprised about 140,000 to 150,000 Ukrainians and Lemkos still remaining after the 1944-1946 forcible repatriation of Ukrainians from Poland to the Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR and Siberia), and the inhabitants of

   Polesie
   Roztocze
   Pogórze Przemyskie
   Bieszczady
   Low Beskid
   Beskid Sądecki
   Ruś Szlachtowska

   The process of deportation itself was swift and brutal as the deportees were often given only a few hours to prepare and get the limited belongings they were allowed to take, and they were transported in crowded boxcars. The food supply was irregular, the sanitary conditions were poor, there were many delays along the way. The entire process was accompanied by considerable violence, deportees died in transit.

   Members of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, including clergy (both Greek Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox), were sent from collection points to the concentration camp in Jaworzno called the Central Labour Camp, and was a branch of the formerly German concentration camp Auschwitz.

   At the latter camp, almost 4,000 persons were held, including 800 Ukrainian and Lemko women and dozens of children.

   The captives, of whom died in the camp, were subject to harsh interrogations and beatings despite the fact that no active members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists were sent to the camp.

   For the latter, show trials by the extraordinary Operation Group Vistula Tribunals or regular military tribunals were held, and over 500 were sentenced to death and executed.

   The remaining expellees were resettled over a wide area in the Northern (Warmia and Masuria) and Western Territories acquired by the People’s Republic of Poland following the Potsdam Agreement, were they were not to constitute more than 10 percent of the population in any one location. Operation “Vistula” itself was officially ended as early July 31, 1947.

   Operation Vistula closed officially with a ceremonial bestowing of decorations on what were deemed the most deserving Polish soldiers, held on the Polish-Czechoslovak border. The last resettlements took place as late as 1952, in the western part of the pre-1939 former Polesie Voivodeship.

   A consequence of Operation Vistula was the almost total depopulation of Pogórze Przemyskie, Bieszczady and Beskid Niski.

   The relocation of the population put the UPA forces in Poland in a difficult position: deprived of human and other resources, the outnumbered Ukrainian partisans were unable to uphold their own armed resistance and guerrilla against the communist Polish forces. Nevertheless the UPA continued its fight for a few more years. After the last relocations, the UPA’s activities on Polish territory died out, while some Ukrainian insurgents fled to Western Europe, notably to West Germany, and the United States.

   www .liquisearch. com/operation_vistula/deportations_and_repressions

   HOW DID THE DEPORTATIONS GET ORGANIZED BY THE POLISH GOVERNMENT ??

   The Ukrainians (aks at the as Limkos ) was forced onto trains and the boxcar had no windows, no toilet facilities, and no food or water (except what people brought with them).

   There was nowhere to sit or sleep except the floor. It was sweltering hot. No breeze. No fresh air. No cooling off in the evenings. There was no privacy to do the normal things a body needs to do. And the people went days and sometimes a week or more without seeing daylight.

   It wasn’t long before the closed-in air became unbearably foul with the stench of farm animals, sweating people, animal and human excrement, people vomiting. Illness and disease soon became rampant. But there was no medicine. The attitude of those Polish in charge was simply “if they die, they die”–which many did.

   Pregnant women lost their babies or died in childbirth. With no food or water, new mothers could’t produce enough milk to feed their babies, and the babies died.

   Other mothers starved themselves to death in order to feed their children. The days, nights, weeks, months were filled with the agonizing cries of hungry children and babies, the moans of the sick and dying, and the sobs of the family members who lost them.

   To make things even worse, dead bodies stayed in the closed boxcar until the next stop–which could be as long as a week. During the stop, the people would scurry to look for anything that might be edible or a drop of water.

   The trains carrying the Ukrainians were in no hurry. Any time another train a distance away might need access to a crossing along the Ukrainians train’s path, the depotation train would stop and wait until the other train passed by. And when the Ukrainians train needed to change tracks, the engineers took their good old time while the people sat sweltering inside the boxcars.

   It’s reported that some Polish engineers played games with their Ukrainians passengers. One game was to repeatedly speed up the train and suddenly put on the brakes, which would toss the people and animals in the cars around and on top of each other. If you suffered a broken bone, too bad.

   Another game was to stop at the Auschwitz concentration camp and open the doors to scare the passengers into thinking they were going there to be gassed.

   This frightened the people inside the cars so much that, in their frenzy to move to the back of the car, they actually trampled other people in the car to death.

   Some Ukrainians tried to escape but were usually captured, beaten, or shot. In the end, a journey that might normally take four to five hours took up to three months. Imagine three months locked up with all that.

   THIS IS WHAT THE POLISH DID TO UKRAINIANS IT WAS GENOCIDE !!!!!!

   www. encyclopediaofukraine. com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CO%5CP%5COperationWisK5a.htm

   www .liquisearch. com/operation_vistula/deportations_and_repressions

   Lemkos (лемки; lemky). A Ukrainian ethnic group which until 1946 lived in the most western part of Ukraine on both sides of the Carpathian Mountains and along the Polish-Slovak border

   www . encyclopediaofukraine. com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CL%5CE%5CLemkos.htm

   What happened after the deportations ???

   Until 1956 the Lemkos as well as all the other Ukrainians the survived the genocide and deportations done to them by Poland had no national rights.

   Ukrainian cultural and educational activity centered around the Ukrainian Social and Cultural Society. In 1957 the supplement Lemkivs’ke slovo was added to the society’s weekly Nashe slovo, and in 1959 a separate section for the development of Lemko culture was established within the society.

   Only a few Lemko Ukrainians have been allowed to return to their homeland—by 1957–8 only some 4,000 of the 30,000 to 40,000 Lemkos Ukrainian in Poland.

   Schools in which Ukrainian is taught are the exception. Until recently Lemkos did not have their own priests; they often were, and still are, subject to greater discrimination than before the Second World War.

   Operation Vistula

   Operation Vistula was the codename for the 1947 forced resettlement of post-war Ukrainian minority (including Boykos and Lemkos) to the Recovered Territories, carried out by the Polish authorities done to Ukrainians. About 200,000 civilians residing in around Bieszczady and Low Beskids were forcibly resettled to formerly German territories ceded to Poland at the Yalta Conference at the end of World War II. The operation was named after the Vistula River, Wisła in Polish.

   Following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the operation was condemned by Ukrainian politicians and historians and by a few Polish politicians. It has been described as ethnic cleansing by selected Western and Polish sources, as well as by Ukrainians.

   On December 9, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust and in no small part due to the tireless efforts of Lemkin himself, the United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

   This convention establishes “genocide” as an international crime, which signatory nations “undertake to prevent and punish.”

   It defines genocide as:

   [G]enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

   (a) Killing members of the group;

   (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

   (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

   (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

   (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

   Russia is doing a, b, c, and e…. it is a genocide of Ukrainians

   www. ushmm. org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043

   After the Holocaust, the United Nations created a new term — genocide — and defined it as any of the following actions committed with intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group:

   Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

   www. endgenocide. org/learn/what-is-genocide/

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