Profesor Kazimierz Przybyłowski — ofiara represji sowieckich we Lwowie w początkach 1945 roku
Professor Kazimierz Przybyłowski — A Victim of Soviet Repression in Lviv in Early 1945

Summary/Abstract: During World War II, the population of Lviv, including Lviv scholars, suffered severe harassment from the Soviet and Nazi occupiers. This article concerns the Soviet repressions directed at the beginning of 1945 against an outstanding Polish civilian scientist—Professor Kazimierz Przybyłowski. Analyzing all the circumstances regarding the discussed issue, the author comes to the conclusion that Przybyłowski was one of the thousands of victims of the Soviet regime. However, the assessment of the professor’s scientific works, the views he espoused and the attitudes presented before and during the war leads to the conclusion that he was not a victim of this terror due to activities hostile to the Soviets. However, it proves that the professor became a victim of Soviet repression only because he was a Polish scientist. Therefore, the terror of the Soviets in the Polish eastern borderlands was absolutely blind, it was not aimed only at their declared opponents or people who were openly hostile to them, but as a preventive measure at entire national groups (Poles) or social groups (the intelligentsia).

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