Tarnopol Voivodeship: Difference between revisions

'''Tarnopol Voivodeship''' ({{lang-langx|pl|Województwo tarnopolskie}}; {{lang-langx|uk|Тернопільське воєводство|Ternopilske voievodstvo}}) was an administrative region of [[Second Polish Republic|interwar]] [[Poland]] (1918–1939), created on [[23 December]] [[1920]], with an area of 16,500 km² and provincial capital in [[Tarnopol]] (now ''Ternopil'', [[Ukraine]]). The [[Voivodeships of Poland|voivodeship]] was divided into 17 districts ([[powiat]]y). At the end of [[World War II]], at the insistence of [[Joseph Stalin]] during the [[Tehran Conference]] of 1943 without official Polish representation whatsoever, the borders of Poland were [[Territorial changes of Poland after World War II|redrawn by the Allies]]. The Polish population was [[Polish population transfers (1944–1946)|forcibly resettled]] after the defeat of [[Nazi Germany]] and the Tarnopol Voivodeship was incorporated into the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]] of the Soviet Union. Since 1991, most of the region is located in the [[Ternopil Oblast]] in sovereign [[Ukraine]].

During the German-SovietNazi [[invasion of Poland]] in accordance with the secret protocol of [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]], the Soviet forces allied with Nazi Germany [[Soviet invasion of Poland|invaded eastern Poland]] on 17 September 1939. As the bulk of the [[Polish Army]] was concentrated in the west fighting the Nazi Germans ''(see also: [[Polish September Campaign]])'', the Red Army met with limitedlittle-to-no resistance by the Polish citizens and their troops quickly moved westward. Tarnopol was occupied as early as 18 September 1939 without substantial opposition from the Poles, and remained in Soviet hands till [[Operation Barbarossa]].<ref name="Kresy">[http://www.kresy.co.uk/podole.html Kresy.co.uk – History of Podolia and Tarnopol.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031008110233/http://www.kresy.co.uk/podole.html |date=8 October 2003 }}</ref> Monuments were destroyed, street names changed, bookshops closed, library collections stolen and transported in [[lorry|lorries]] to the Russian archives.<ref name="Jasiński">{{cite web | url=http://www.polishresistance-ak.org/28%20Article.htm | title=Polish cultural losses in the years 1939–1945 | publisher=London Branch of the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen Association | year=2013 | access-date=30 September 2013 | author=Dr Grzegorz Jasiński}}</ref> The province was [[Sovietization|Sovietized]] in the atmosphere of terror.<ref name="Wegner-74">[[Bernd Wegner]] (1997). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=aESBIpIm6UcC&pg=PA74 From peace to war: Germany, Soviet Russia, and the world, 1939–1941.]'' Berghahn Books, p. 74. {{ISBN|1-57181-882-0}}.</ref> Families were deported to Siberia in cattle trains,<ref name="sztetl.org">{{cite web | url=http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/article/tarnopol/5,historia/?action=view&page=2 | title=Tarnopol | work=Historia – Społeczność żydowska przed 1989 | publisher=[[Virtual Shtetl]] (Wirtualny Sztetl) |year=2015 | access-date=31 July 2015 |author=Robert Kuwałek |author2=Eugeniusz Riadczenko |author3=Adam Dylewski |author4=Justyna Filochowska |author5=Michał Czajka | pages=3–4 of 5 | language=pl}}</ref> mainly Polish Christians.<ref name="Piotrowski1998">Tadeusz Piotrowski (1998), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=NBbnrEMswbUC&q=Luck Poland's Holocaust]'' (Google Books). Jefferson: McFarland, pp. 17–18, 420. {{ISBN|0-7864-0371-3}}.</ref>

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