Operation Vistula

When

28 Apr 1947 – 31 Jul 1947

Kind

Expulsion or deportation

Coordinates

49.13° N, 22.58° E

Description

1947 population resettlement in Poland

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1947 forced ethnic population resettlement in Poland

Operation Vistula was the codename for the 1947 ethnic cleansing, deportation and forced resettlement of close to 150,000 Ukrainians, Rusyns, Boykos, and Lemkos from the southeastern provinces of postwar Poland to the Recovered Territories in the north and west of the country. The action was carried out by the Soviet-installed Polish communist authorities to remove material support to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

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