Operation Vistula through the eyes of Polish Thought.
Yesterday's cyclical broadcast of Polish thought – “A Week Passed” on the TouTube platform entitled “Thank you for Operation Wisła” sparked discussions on respective patriotic and patriotic groups. Friends took part in the broadcast Jan Engelgard, Przemysław Piasta and Mateusz Piskorski. They all agreed that Operation Vistula was essential and carried out in an highly humane way. I'll effort to respond briefly to the most common charges.
1) Operation Vistula was a communist cultural cleansing. That's evidently bullshit.
(a) The leader of the Vistula Operations Group was Stefan Mossor (1896-1957) – General soldier Joseph Haller, the war of 1920, Major General of the Polish Army, the theorist of war art, creator of 1 of the plans of Poland's defence war with Germany, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army (1946–1949), victim of the lawlessness of the Burmese. Much of the soldiers and officers active in this operation are soldiers of the Second Republic of Poland, and fighting during the war in Boys' Battalions and National Army.
(b) In the final phase of resettlement, the first government was then in operation Józef Cyrankiewicz, but deportation actions were widely accepted by all crucial political environments. There was no protest in this case against the Nicolasian opposition Polish People's organization (PSL) is Labour organization (SP). Nor did the Catholic Church express its opposition. The legal basis was, among another things, the Home Minister's Regulation on 22 January 1937 on the border area of the state.
2. Operation Vistula was characterized by utmost brutality. That's evidently bullshit.
(a) Operation Vistula was carried out in an highly humane way. Let us remember the words of our Kresów gene. Stanisław Skalski "When many in Europe have killed their enemies, we have displaced them give civilized surviving conditions". In fact, Poles have demonstrated incredible humanism towards the population, which was to a large degree the base of UPA-UN criminals. It should be remembered that many soldiers and officers have seen or heard about the hard to describe crimes committed by the Fanatized Ukrainians on children, women, old men and men. Despite this knowledge, soldiers and officers were criminally following orders, and no pogroms and mass same - justices occurred anywhere.
(b) The displaced people usually gained materially due to the fact that they left their homes with a cleft and in return received well-preserved brick post-German homes. frequently these were houses equipped with equipment that were not available to the Ukrainian and Lemko population so far.
3) These people could only be left alone and fought against Ukrainian armed bands. That's evidently bullshit.
(a) Poles surviving in these areas knew perfectly well what Ukrainian neighbors, possessed by flag hate, did. A crucial part of these people were household or organizationally associated with UPA-UN criminals. This gave emergence to fears that there would be "a self-inflicted justice" and could hit those who did not participate in Ukrainian cultural murders in Poles and another nations.
(b) Operation Wisła saved us from the apparent possible for me of the Balkanization of Rzeszowszczyzna and the Lublin war after the systemic changes in 1989/1990. If there were inactive a compact group of Ukrainians surviving in Bieszczady and the surrounding area, they would have their country across the east border. Ukraine was experiencing a renaissance of flagism at the time, and the strengthening of nationalist tendencies in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
4) These people could have been relocated to the Union of russian Socialist Republics (ZSRR). At any point there was no possibility.
(a) At the time, Poland was governed by Republican Agreements, which were agreements with 3 russian republics: Belarusian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian. Under these agreements, forced displacements of people with Polish citizenship from the east areas of inter-war Poland were carried out, which became part of the USSR after planet War II.
The displacement took place in 4 stages. The first 2 were completely voluntary. The first phase of repatriation inactive in 1944 included the areas of the provinces of Rzeszów, Lublin and Krakow. The incentives to leave were to be to exempt from all taxes and insurance charges and cancel all outstanding payments. It was promised that the fresh site would receive the equivalent for the leftover property and sowing (which were described) and that land (up to 15 ha) would be given to the fresh site.
The second phase allowed voluntary resettlement after the winter of 1945 the inhabitants of the areas destroyed during the fight for the break of German defence in the area of Łupkowska and Dukielska Passage.
Stage III was already forced, but there were inactive a number of people who wanted to be displaced. At that time, the band UPA, directed against the Polish Army, the Civic Militia and the Polish civilian population, intensified.
The 4th phase called Operation Wisła was mostly a consequence to the mad and criminal actions of Ukrainian chauvinists. UPA commander in our country – Myroslaw Onyszkewycz “Orest” gave orders to attack the resettlement commissions and troops of the Polish People's Army, helping resettling and burning displaced villages to halt the Polish settlement. Rail lines, stations, bridges, viaducts were besides attacked – the full critical infrastructure. akin orders were given by the president of the CNS on the Polish training Jarosław Staruch “Stiah”.
During the 4th stage, the russian Union no longer wanted to receive Ukrainians and Lemks. The communist authorities of the USSR most likely realized that the fanaticated national minorities would be problematic in the future. That's why the displaced ended up in the mediate of our Earth Recovered. This has given birth to many problems for our nation.
5) The Polish anti-communist underground was on the Ukrainian side. That's evidently bullshit.
After the war, Poles realized precisely what flagism was. besides in the Poakowski underground, this cognition was common. The accidents of cooperation with the Ukrainian nationalist underground were individual and publicized by senseless followers of anti-communist inductionism.
The most celebrated event was the attack on the MP station, the office of MBP and the Resettlement Commission in Hrubieszów. The attack was carried out by the criminal Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA) and Freedom and independency Association (WiN) at night from 27 to 28 May 1946. It was a insignificant incident.
The action was condemned by almost all political forces in the country, and negatively judged even by the most extremist anti-communist environments. The exception was cooperating after the war with Ukrainians Colonel AK and WiN Marian Gołębiewski and a focused environment. This event should only stay a sad episode in Poland's history. I knew in the 1990s a twelve Poaków underground soldiers and they all had a definite anti-Bander attitude.
6) Poles apologized for Operation Vistula and persecution of Ukrainians after planet War II. That's evidently bullshit.
(a) Ukrainians were not persecuted due to their nationality in People's Poland and are not persecuted in the 3rd Republic of Poland. In the post-war period, Ukrainian nationalism, whose most nasty face was flagism, was pursued – not very rigorously.
(b) In 1952, the process of gradually liberalising the approach to the Ukrainian number began. In 1953, the Ukrainian philology direction at the University of Warsaw was launched. In 1955, Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Commissions were established, with any provincial or region national councils. After 1956, the Ukrainian Social and Cultural Society was legally active in Poland and there were writings for the Ukrainian number in the Polish People's Republic.
(c) In 1956 the Ukrainian Social and Cultural Society (Уκраїнське суспільно культурне товариство) was established, which operated until 1990.
(d) In 1990 the Ukrainian Union was established in Poland, which had the support of practically the full post-solidarity camp. Over time, the post-communist camp besides supported the Ukrainian minority. In 1990 the Association of Ukrainians-Politic Prisoners of the Stalin period was besides established.
(c) People of Ukrainian origin sat in the Polish Sejm and included advanced positions including the functions of ministers.
(d) Poland did not apologise, only any political forces in Poland. In 1990 it was dominated by the Solidarity legislature of Poland. In 2002, the political origin of the PZPR and mentally of the Union of Freedom president Aleksander Kwasniewski. In 2007, the president Lech Kaczyński. In 2027 Operation Vistula condemned and called the “ethnic purity” a self-proclaimed group of intellectuals headed by Adam Michnik. Unfortunately, these actions are part of “Acts of stupidity in Poland” and have sad consequences for us Poles.
A separate subject is the issue of the non-reflective and unconditional support of Ukraine after 2022. Unfortunately, the message of the MFA press spokesperson from 2021 to 1923 by Luka Jasina "We are servants of the Ukrainian people". But that's a subject for a individual of entry.
Łukasz Jastrzeżski
