Колективні судові процеси над поляками в Рівненській області у 1939–1941 рр.

Collective trials on Poles in Rivne region in 1939–1941Political reprisals, which was directed to isolation and physical discrimination of the stratums of society, which were regarded by Soviet authorities as social out-siders and suppression of organized opposition from its opponents became a com-ponent of “the first sovietization” of Western Ukraine. One of the elements of political terror became collective trials on former Polish policemen, agents, con-fidents, war prisoners, members of anti-soviet underground which is the subject of this articl