The expulsion of ethnic Poles from eastern Poland
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 3:25 pm
Poland was forced by the USSR to accept the loss of eastern Poland in 1945, and later to confirm it (with minor border changes) in 1951. The puppet communist government signed two border treaties with the USSR.
1,543,222+ ethnic Poles were expulsed from eastern Poland between 1944 and 1946.
Further 245,501+ ethnic Poles were expulsed from these territories between 1955 and 1959.
But this is not the entire tragedy yet. Between 1942 and 1944 over 300,000 ethnic Poles escaped from Volhynia to Central Poland. They escaped from Ukrainian ethnic cleansings carried out by UPA - many other (around 50,000 - 60,000 according to Polish historians) ethnic Poles did not manage to escape them:
1,543,222+ ethnic Poles were expulsed from eastern Poland between 1944 and 1946.
Further 245,501+ ethnic Poles were expulsed from these territories between 1955 and 1959.
But this is not the entire tragedy yet. Between 1942 and 1944 over 300,000 ethnic Poles escaped from Volhynia to Central Poland. They escaped from Ukrainian ethnic cleansings carried out by UPA - many other (around 50,000 - 60,000 according to Polish historians) ethnic Poles did not manage to escape them: