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An outline of the felonies and crimes committed during the anti-partisan operations in the Polesie Lubelskie region after 1947
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(17) (2019), pages: 95-116
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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This article attempts to characterise the felonies and crimes committed by the MBP formations during anti-partisan operations in the Polesie Lubelskie region. In this region the armed resistance to the communists lasted the longest. This time period starts with the end of the amnesty of 22nd February 1947 and ends with the liquidation of the last armed groups at the beginning of the 1950s. Selected examples show the ruthlessness with which the communist authorities cracked down on members of the underground while at the same time committing a series of crimes against civilians supporting partisans. Pacification of this region was performed by the operational forces of the Security Office, Internal Security Corps, and Citizens’ Militia which committed murders. They also used captured people as human shields and applied physical and mental constraints. Among the repression that fell on the families of the rebels and their collaborators were: arrests, repeated searches, destruction of possessions, confiscation of personal property and resettlement to the so-called recovered territories.
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