Zakarzonye ( Ukrainian: Zakerzonnya ; Polish: Zakerzonie ) is a journalistic name given by some historians and publicists to lands located west of the Curzon line , which, in their opinion, are located on the former Ukrainian ethnic and historical territory: Lemkovschina , Nadzanye and parts of Lyubachovschina , Ravschina , Sokalschina , Kholmshchina and Podlasie . This was an area of 19,000 km 2 with a population of about 1.5 million people.
The term "Zakerson Territory" was used in the journalism of OUN-B and the UPA nomenclature. It is also used by Ukrainian nationalist politicians, according to whom this area belongs to the Ukrainian ethnic lands.
Under the terms of the Soviet-Polish treaty of August 16, 1945 (slightly changed by the Soviet-Polish treaty of 1951 ), these lands were transferred to Poland.
In the years 1944-1946, about 480,000 Ukrainians were resettled in the USSR . In parallel, there was a resettlement of the Poles (to a large extent they were polonized Rusyns or Roman Catholics) from the territory of the USSR to Poland.
In 1947, as a result of Operation Vistula, about 150 thousand Ukrainians were deported from their native lands to the northern regions of Poland.
Links
- Deportees require preferential entry to Poland (inaccessible link)
Literature
- Omelyan Nimets . Short dovnik Zakerzonnya. - Kosiv: Scripture Kamin, 2011 .-- 156 p.