Виселення жителів прикордонної зони УСРР у східні райони республіки (1934-1935 рр.)
The evictions of Ukrainian SSR border zone residents to the eastern regions of the Republic (1934 ‒ 1935)

Summary/Abstract: Between 1934 ‒ 1935 the first big wave of forced relocations of border zone residents in Ukrainian SSR started. This process was due to the increase of international tensions, the construction of military facilities in these areas, as well as the negative attitude of the local population to the Soviet regime. Republican leadership feared that in case of an armed conflict between USSR and Poland or Germany, the local people will support the entry of foreign troops. Another motive to evict people was bullying the inhabitants of the western regions who had remained there and forcing them to join the collective farms. The migration process took place in difficult conditions of acute shortage of food and feed caused by famine (Golodomor) and negative attitude towards newcomers from the eastern region residents. Therefore, most of the immigrants could not settle in new places and resettled to the cities to find a job or were returning to their homeland.

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