Депортації на українсько-польському пограниччі 1944−1951 років як об’єкт та суб’єкт культурної пам’яті, історичної політики

Abstrakt

The problem of cultural memory of Ukrainians deported from the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands has been actualized, and the historical policy of the authorities of independent Ukraine and Poland regarding the neutralization of the legacy of violence and traumatic memory has been analyzed. It is argued that the deportations of Ukrainians from Lemkivshchyna, Nadsiannia, and Kholmshchyna in 1944−1951 became a repressive instrument of the national policy of the communist regimes of the USSR and Poland, serving as a means of punishment (administrative and criminal). The author agrees with the conclusion of Polish historian Grzegorz Motyka that the 'Vistula' deportation action of 1947 constituted ethnic cleansing organized by the Polish communist authorities against Ukrainians. The commemorative measures of Ukrainian authorities and civil society regarding the honoring of memory markers (places) of the deported in Ukraine and Poland are demonstrated.