Polityka władzy ludowej wobec ludności ukraińskiej w Polsce w okresie 1944–1950
The policy of the people’s government towards the Ukrainian population of Poland in 1944–1950

Summary/Abstract: This article sets to analyse the policy of the communist authorities towards the Ukrainian popu­lation living in Poland’s territory following the Second World War. The political concepts of the people’s government concerning the issue of national minorities were implemented by pursuing a strictly state­controlled ethnic and migration policy. In line with the idea of creating a mono­ethnic state, the Ukrainian population was resettled from their previous places of resi-dence. The first wave of deportations of Ukrainians from the south­eastern territories of Poland took place under the 1944 agreement on the evacuation of Polish citizens from the territory of the USSR and of the Ukrainian population from the territory of Poland between the Polish Com-mittee of National Liberation and the Government of the Ukrainian Socialist Republic. Starting from 1947, the Ukrainian population was forcibly resettled to the Recovered Territories as part of the Operation Vistula, which ended in 1950. The author of this article expounds both the assumptions of the resettlement and the concepts concerning the assimilation of the Ukrainian population in new places of settlement.

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