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Operation Vistula (Polish: Akcja Wisła; Ukrainian: Опера́ція «Ві́сла») was the codename for the 1947 forced resettlement of close to 150,000 Ukrainians (including Rusyns, Boykos, and Lemkos) from the southeastern provinces of postwar Poland to the Recovered Territories in the west of the country.
The Vistula–Oder offensive (Russian: Висло-Одерская операция, romanized: Vislo–Oderskaya operatsiya) was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European theatre of World War II in January 1945. The army made a major advance into German-held territory, capturing Kraków, Warsaw and Poznań.
The Polish side has made steps towards reconciliation; in 2002 President Aleksander Kwaśniewski expressed regret over the resettlement program, known as Operation Vistula: "The infamous Operation Vistula is a symbol of the abominable deeds perpetrated by the communist authorities against Polish citizens of Ukrainian origin."
The Operation Vistula, carried out by the Polish communist authorities, effectively dispersed and weakened the Ukrainian guerrillas on the territories of modern-day Poland, [147] although after 1945 the main units of the UPA fought the Soviets in the west areas of the Soviet Ukraine and its commanders regarded Poland as a peripheral field of ...
Three years since the arrival of Russian forces drove her from her home in eastern Ukraine to Poland, Oksana Sapronova and other refugees fear their homeland's battlefield losses could now end up ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a military operation in Ukraine, claiming it’s intended to protect civilians. In a televised address, Putin said the action comes in ...
Putin accused Ukraine of trying “to destabilize” his country, according to the Kremlin, adding that “a primary military objective” of the incursion is “to halt the advance” of Russian ...
This article presents the historiography of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, as presented by historians in Poland and Ukraine after World War II. Beginning in March 1943, and lasting until early 1945, a violent ethnic cleansing operation against Poles – conducted primarily by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA ...