Catalogue · ID 191

Депортація

Author: Бажан О. Г., Стасюк О. Й.
Year of publication: 2007
Published in: Енциклопедія Сучасної України
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: not allowed (an encyclopedia article under copyright)

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Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 7 places.

Campaigns

• Annexation and Sovietization of Western Ukraine (1939–1941)

  Then came the mass deportations: "Between September 1939 and June 1941, up to 1,250,000 people (about 10% of the population) were removed from these lands and Western Belarus… to remote regions of the USSR"

• Suppression of UPA Resistance and Operation "Vistula" (1944–1951)

  A war waged by NKVD/MGB troops against the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in western Ukraine: chekist-military operations, mass repressive actions, and the forced removal of insurgents' families to Siberia - in 1944–52 "203,662 people were deported from the territory of Western Ukraine to special settlements in remote regions of the USSR"

Procedures

• Annexation and Sovietization of Western Ukraine (1939–1941) — technique Deportation

  Mass forced resettlement by quota: "under the resolutions of the Council of People's Commissars of December 5, 1939 and March 2, 1940, subject to administrative resettlement were the employees of the former state institutions, courts, police, army, merchants, Polish settlers, landowners, owners of plants and factories, and their families"; in total "up to 1,250,000 people were removed to remote regions of the USSR"

• Annexation and Sovietization of Western Ukraine (1939–1941) — technique Labor Exploitation

  The transfer of hundreds of thousands of people into special settlements and camps as a system of forced labor: in under two years "up to 1,250,000 people (about 10% of the population) were removed to remote regions of the USSR"

• Suppression of UPA Resistance and Operation "Vistula" (1944–1951) — technique Punitive Expeditions

  Already "on April 5, 1944, on the basis of a directive of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR, a scheme of arrests and deportation of OUN–UPA members was worked out"

• Suppression of UPA Resistance and Operation "Vistula" (1944–1951) — technique Deportation

  The forcible removal of insurgents' families to Siberia and the deportation of the Ukrainians of Zakerzonnia: the removal of "bandit accomplices" with their entire families began at once - already in the summer of 1944 "more than 17,000 people were carried off to Krasnoyarsk Krai"

  in all, in 1944–52, 203,662 people were removed to special settlements, among them "representatives of the families of members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and their sympathizers — 182,543 people"

• Suppression of UPA Resistance and Operation "Vistula" (1944–1951) — technique Labor Exploitation

  deportees from Western Ukraine were sent to special settlements and hard labor - in the summer of 1944 alone "more than 17,000 people were carried off to Krasnoyarsk Krai"