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Stalinist repressions against the Polish population, living in Ukraine for centuries, are known for its wide scale and cruelty as for lawless actions and terror. Around 150-200,000 Poles, which constituted about 30% of all the Polish population in Ukraine, underwent different forms of repressions during Stalinism. In fact, the Poles from Ukraine went first on the list of the peoples deported, which further turned out to be typical of the Soviet totalitarianism. The author describes the scale and deportation process of the Polish population from Ukra- inian western border regions to the eastern ones, up to Kazakhstan. The Stalinist repressions reached their peak during the years of the Great Terror, 1937-1938. NKVD repressions exemplified typical ethnocide, with a Polish origin of victims as the main reason. Stalin's secret police started the wide-scale provocations, fabricating a dossier of the so-called “Po- lish Military Organization”.