14: Interwar Poland’s Ukrainians
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The Soviet Union and the Soviet Union
In the Soviet Union, by 1931-1932, we are in the middle of collectivization. In early 1930, the Soviet secret police records more than one million acts of individual resistance by peasants on the territory of the Ukrainian Republic. And it's during this time also that thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian peasants or peasants from Soviet Ukraine flee to Romania and flee to Poland to escape collectivized land. When they come to Poland, they flee for war. But what you don't have is a Polish attack. The Poles look upon this and they say, well, the Soviet state is mobilizing, it's more powerful than we thought.
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