Dr. Jacek Romanek
Institute of National Remembrance
Warsaw, Poland
Abstract. The article presents the issue related to the collaboration of national
minorities during the Soviet Union’s aggression against Poland in 1939. The
appearances of the Ukrainian and Jewish minorities against the Polish population
led to a huge amount of crimes. Thousands of representatives of the Polish state
were killed by the communist militias. According to Soviet propaganda, destruction
of the Polish intelligentsia began in the occupied areas. These activities were to
make the soviets easier to defeat the Polish state.
Keywords: communism; minorities; collaboration; The Second World War; Soviet aggression
