The exchange between the Polish People’s Republic and the Soviet Union of Moscow in relation to one of many. Make legends have already passed trains of coal, coal, meat or fabrics go to the Soviets. However, it can not be the same activity with an “ethical transaction” as we did in the next kilometers of work on things for things in the Bug area, taking into account the riots of the Bieszczady Mountains. The numbers were identical and it was taking the thing that was the cattle of the tread of the earth.

Polish border

As it was emphasized many times in the times of the Republic of Poland, the Polish sovereign border in terms of technology was given to Stalin, who during the procedure of the new technique demanded that the Polish border be written out. Stalin, of course, was not created then that people lived in Silesia, but about the deposits that Silesia was famous for, and which the Soviets needed.

With the border in the east, it will stop a bit differently. There, Stalin generously measures the Poles to reach as far as the Bug River. In 1945, no one knew yet what wealth was hidden in part of this territory.

Soon after the war, Polish geologists in the so-called knee of the Bug, that is, in the triangle: Bug, Socjala and Huczwa, an addition to three hard coal deposits. To immediately draw attention to Moscow, for example, to impose on which territories of the Republic there are only a few Ukrainian Social Republic, from the next kilometers de facto Soviet stories.

Shortly after this discovery – strange – the Polish side, and from the service to Moscow or the territorial movement. The ruling communists wanted a good Polish Bieszczady, a track in the eastern basin of the upper San. The aim was to build a dam and a flood-proof carving in this area.

Of course, such an investment should be praised. Why, however, the territorial repair concerns the problem of maintaining the Bug, where the deposits of “black gold” have only been covered? It is difficult to find only fugitives in this whole affair.

“He changed the stryjek an ax for a stick”

The Polish territories placed in the workplace were important for the Soviets for another reason. There was a railway activity there, led by Włodzimierz Wołyński with Rawa Ruska and Lw. So the Soviets were interested in such activities.

Communists all the last minute, stock exchange things in the same Poland, so they don’t need to add a new action. On February 14, 1951, after rather short negotiations, the “deal” was finalized.

The Soviet Union transferred to Poland a fragment of that Drohobych activity to the territory of the Ukrainian SSR, i.e. the present town of Ustrzyki Dolne and the villages of: Czarna, Lutowiska, Krościenko, Bandrów Narodowy, Bystre and Liskowate and the surrounding area.

In replacing Poland, it gave the Soviets a part of the Lublin voivodeship with the towns of Bełz, Uhnów (Угнів), Krystynopol (Червоноград), Waręż (Варяж), Chorobrów (Хоробрів) and the left-bank part of Sokal – a railway with Rus-Krystynka railway service.

It was not published until May 22, 1951, four days before the contract was delivered by the Seym. The exchange took place on November 26 of the same year.

The exchange also traded, or rather, most of all, with the tragedy. Many inhabitants of the Bieszczady Mountains, who lived in the areas that were to be incorporated into Poland, were forcibly deported by the Soviets to various places in the USSR.

“No desert”

Shortly after taking over the Bug’s knee, the Soviets began building several mines, from which they soon extracted up to 15 tons of coal. They also gained access to making black and white births. What has Poland created?

In the founding theory, oil becomes oil. I have already implemented that it will no longer be ready for work, that these areas will be exploited. From 1944, in Ustrzyki Dolne, people found themselves in the Rkachovski region, Moscow also carried out robbery forestry there, transporting cubic wood to every location. Deforestation intensified even after the agreement with Poland was finalized. Animals were also caught, such as deer, wild boars and hares, the meat of which the “Ruthenians” liked very much.

“Michał Iwanko from Stebnik recalled: – Everywhere to listen, there was the sound of chopping trees everywhere. From dawn to dusk, men and women worked with axes, hatchets, and two-person handsaws. In a short time the forests stopped very much.

– The cuts lasted from late winter all the way to – said Jan Jaślar from Czarna. – I did not have to belong to the forest myself, because I worked in many of my entourages, but my neighbors walk with pale equipment on the nearest future hill. Then the wood was transported to the valleys, and from there to specially prepared warehouses. But still, a lot of beech, ash, fir and spruce trees were never dragged out of the forests. Many of the trees were cut without thinking; they fell into ravines from which he could not or did not want them. And in these gorges they have already been wasted.

Before they were transported to the vast plains of the USSR in all feet to the villages of Bieszczady control – from Chmiel and Dwerniczka to Ustrzyki Dolne, Krościenko and Ustianowa – cars and trucks loaded with wood, which were difficult to count, were cleared away. The Polish resettlement commission, which “took away” the Ustrzyki region from the Soviets, did not even dare to silently protest against the abusive cuts of forests, just like with the hands of the mindless hunting management itself. ” (K. Potaczała, “He cut the desert”)

People who will judge those transferred to the Bieszczady Mountains are struck by the emptiness that surrounds them. There was no trace of the forests. There were only pitiful trunks and boughs that had not been taken care of here and there. The ground was bare. There were no animals anywhere. The Soviets also took away all the machines – the agreement with Poland allows for the removal of all agricultural equipment, rolling stock, and even farm equipment.

“We were taking over mining, other plants, as well as official and railway plants, but our eyes were struck by the bare areas left by the clearings. Soon after, after the Soviets had left, I would go for walks around the area. I tried to spot traces of forest animals, roe deer and deer, in vain. After all, it is not because there is no luck – that our predecessors would shoot almost all the animals. I cannot find any other connection ”. – recalled Jan Kułacki, one of the first government officials who appeared in Ustrzyki Dolne.

Today there is no trace of the barbaric activity of the Soviets around Ustrzyki or Lutowiska. It is a text of the original person, which is to be recommended in the place in the 1950s and it is only “asked to do” that they tried to afforestate or introduce to these areas animals that were killed by the Soviets. It is estimated that it took years to renew the restoration of the number of changed figures.

On the 19, which we gained in the 1960s, the Soliński Lagoon was created. Nowadays, both without the Lagoon and Ustrzyki and this part of the Bieszczady Mountains, we cannot imagine Poland, but anyway it is hard not to admit that in 1951 the Soviets robbed us once again. The recipient of us wins the sites, pays the promotion a lot.

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