IanGould

 In the 1920s, the briefly indwpendent West Ukrainian Republic used paramilitary police to deport Poles to the newly independent Polish republic. After the Poles, with the support of the western allies, occupied western Ukraine. they used paramilitary police to deport Ukrainians and Jews from the Ukrainian-majority area of Galicia - at first deporting them to Ukraine then to eastern Ukraine then after the Soviets took over the rest of Ukraine, to other parts of Poland where they were dispersed widely and prevented from forming communities. At te same time, the Soviets were deporting Poles from Ukraine to Poland. Then after the Soviet-German partition of Poland, the Soviets occupied Galicia and started deporting ethnic Poles to German-occupied Poland - where many of them were delivered straight to labour camps. Here's the thing when the Germans started deporting Jews from Poland occupied Soviet territory, they were largely using mechanisms already in place for up to 20 years. In fa...