Another Polish liePonury wrote:Not really, because it's not the same. As a result of the "Vistula" at best a few elderly Ukrainians died of a heart attack. No one else.
Actually it is worse because it was Polish goverment that organized ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians and the present day goverment of Poland as its legal successor bears legal responsiblity for its actions as well
Only in Polish opertaing post-war Auschwitz hundreds of Ukrainian civilians were tortued to death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vistula
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 200 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.
Ukrainians in return you get good land in Pomerania, Koszalin, etc. In addition, when you finally reconciled and stop it and remind yourself that?
Well, that's Polish authorities and many Poles does not seem to be able to reconcile with the fact that Polish troubles in Ukraine were caused by Poles themselves.
Those hundreds of thousands deported Ukrainians lost everything they had, were turned homeless and with just some personal belonings were transported in cargo carriages to those distant areas so that their numbers in every area did not exceed 10 per cent. They had to start their lives from scratch under extremely miserable conditions in the adversary Polish surrounding and under the surveillence of Polish security. In fact Polish refuges from Western Ukraine were in much better conditions as they at least had relatives in Polish regions and were sympathetic by other Poles and authorities.
So tell us when "truth-loving" Polish government recoginizes the ethnic cleanising of Ukrainians and Germans with elements of genocide in post war Poland?
