Annexation and Sovietization of Western Ukraine (1939–1941)
A conspiracy between two totalitarian regimes (the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) that led to the USSR's invasion of Poland and the seizure of Western Ukraine. To legitimize the occupation, fake "People's Assemblies" were staged, which voted to join the USSR. Immediately afterward came mass arrests of the local elite and the forced deportations of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Poles to remote special settlements in Siberia and Kazakhstan[1][2].
Actors
| ID | Name | Description |
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| G0010 | USSR |
The secret protocols to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany on the division of spheres of influence in Eastern Europe and the legalization of invasion[1]. |
Techniques Used
| ID | Name | Use | |
|---|---|---|---|
| T0017 | Annexation of Territories |
Official forcible annexation of the occupied lands of Western Ukraine (1939), and then of Northern Bukovyna and Bessarabia (1940), with their integration into the administrative structure of the Ukrainian SSR[2]. |
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| T0039 | Collusion with a Third Party |
The secret protocols to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany on the division of spheres of influence in Eastern Europe and the legalization of invasion[1]. |
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| T0127 | Deportation |
Mass forced deportation of the "unreliable" population and the families of the repressed (hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Poles) to remote areas (special settlements in Siberia and Kazakhstan)[1]. |
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| T0057 | Labor Exploitation |
Use of the GULAG camp system as an institution of state slavery for the forced and lethally dangerous exploitation of the labor of repressed Ukrainians[1]. |
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| T0019 | Military Intervention |
Direct armed invasion by the Red Army of the territory of Poland on September 17, 1939, for the military occupation of western Ukrainian lands[1]. |
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| T0021 | Neutralization of the Opposition |
Individual arrests and dispatch to prisons and corrective labor camps (GULAG) of more than 120,000 members of the local elite and politically active population, in order to isolate and physically destroy them[1]. |
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| T0109 | Sham Expression of Popular Will |
Organization of fake, no-alternative "People's Assemblies" under the control of occupation troops to give the seizure a legal form[2]. |
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Instruments
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| S0009 | Diplomacy |
The secret protocols to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany on the division of spheres of influence in Eastern Europe and the legalization of invasion[1]. |
| S0008 | Government |
Official forcible annexation of the occupied lands of Western Ukraine (1939), and then of Northern Bukovyna and Bessarabia (1940), with their integration into the administrative structure of the Ukrainian SSR[2]. |
| S0012 | Occupation and Controlled Administrations |
Organization of fake, no-alternative "People's Assemblies" under the control of occupation troops to give the seizure a legal form[2]. |
| S0010 | Regular Army |
Direct armed invasion by the Red Army of the territory of Poland on September 17, 1939, for the military occupation of western Ukrainian lands[1]. |
| S0017 | Secret Police and Security Services |
Mass forced deportation of the "unreliable" population and the families of the repressed (hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Poles) to remote areas (special settlements in Siberia and Kazakhstan)[1]. |
References
- Михаил Зыгарь. (2023). Война и наказание: Как Россия уничтожала Украину.