Epilog akcji „Wisła”. Likwidacja zbrojnego podziemia ukraińskiego w Polsce
The Epilogue of Operation Vistula. The Liquidation of Ukrainian Military Underground in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The article synthetically presents the actions of the military, the Internal Security Corps and the security apparatus against the underground after the end of Operation Vistula. It aims to show the attempts to destroy the remainder of the UPA and OUN forces and the ensuing results. The displacements of the remaining Ukrainian population from the province of Lublin are also discussed. Even before the end of Operation Vistula, two operational groups were formed, numbering about 10,000 soldiers in total. Their task was facilitated by the demobilisation of partisans carried out in the autumn of 1947 by the command of the Ukrainian underground in Poland. The majority returned to Ukraine to continue fighting, while some tried to get through to the American zone of occupation in Germany. The actions of the military and the Internal Security Corps did not yield significant results. The biggest success was tracking down and surrounding the bunker in which the national OUN commander Jarosław Staruch “Stiah” was hiding, who later committed suicide. In November 1947, when the demobilisation of Ukrainian partisans was discovered, the operational groups were disbanded; combating the last Ukrainian partisans was entrusted to the local units of militia and the Internal Security Corps.

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