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Mechanizm inicjujący zbrodnię – etap przygotowawczy operacji „Zachód” w dokumentach MGB
Przegląd Archiwalny Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, No. 12 (2019), pages: 169–182
Publication date: 2023-04-05
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Abstract
On October 21–26, 1947 a mass deportation “West” was carried out in Western Ukraine. As a result, 77 791 people were evicted to Siberia and Kazakhstan. Operation “West” was one of the four stages of a deportation campaign against the so-called OUN families. The first stage of this campaign dates back to May 1941, when a deportation operation was conducted in Western Ukraine against the “counter-revolutionary elements”. All stages of the deportation campaign against the “OUN families” have a similar mechanism to the preparatory phase. First, the request of the Soviet secret services for the deportations, second the approval of the communist party and the government, and then the order of the Soviet secret services to conduct deportations. Operation “West” became the first post-war mass eviction and could have influenced the resumption of the use of the method of deportation operations on the territory of the western part of the USSR.
