Пересяленне ўкраінскага насельніцтва з Бяла-Падляскага райпрадстаўніцтва СНК БССР ва Украіну ў 1944–1946 гг.

Abstract

Ukrainians were transferred from Poland to Ukraine throw Belarus following the Polish-Belarussian agreement of 9 September 1944 on resettling Belarussians, Russians and Ukrainians from Poland to Belarus. The article discusses ethnic, religious, and political motivation for resettling to Ukraine. Author shows the infl uence of the underground Polish movement (Armija Krajova) on the attitude of Ukrainians resettle from Poland to Ukraine during the resettling process. The author analyses in details the economic power of Ukrainians resettles (on the examples of small village Pavlov-Novy) and their willing or not willing to have a land in Ukraine and work as farmers. From the beginning of resettle process till mid-1946, over half of those who were registered refused to resettle in soviet Ukraine and preferred to stay in Poland. The main reasons why they preferred to stay in Poland were the next: fear of soviet authority, national, religious repression in soviet Ukraine, fears of kolkhos system and inevitability of loosing of their property.