Population exchange between Soviet Union and Poland post Soviet-Polish war

do you have any numbers on how many Poles inside USSR and their geographic distribution? my understanding the vast majority WERE inside Poland?
 
do you have any numbers on how many Poles inside USSR and their geographic distribution? my understanding the vast majority WERE inside Poland?

The 1926 Soviet census showed 782,334 Poles in the USSR, of whom 476,435 lived in the Ukrainian SSR, 197,827 in the RSFSR, and 97,498 in the Belorussian SSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_All-Union_Census_of_the_Soviet_Union

These numbers are quite small, compared to the numbers of East Slavs living in Poland after the Treaty of Riga. The Polish census of 1921 showed 3,898,428 "Ruthenians" (i.e., Ukrainians), 1,035,693 Belorussians, 48,920 Eussians, and 38,943 "locals" (as the inhabitants of the Ukrainain-Belorussian borderland of Polesie called themselves.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_census_of_1921

The answer to the original post is No. Both sides were exhausted by the war and Poland simply did not have the resources to dump such a large population on the USSR.
 
It's vaguely imaginable that the Soviet Union might have deported its Polish population to independent Poland, perhaps as a way to rid itself of a population of suspect loyalties. For Poland to engage in an expulsion of Belarusians and Ukrainians, in contrast, is unthinkable, not least because early Second Republic Poland saw its future linked with leading the whole Intermarium region not purging it of non-Poles.
 
Perhaps one sided population transfer could be achieved-Poles from USSR to Second Polish Republic. That would save them from their tragic OTL fate (Poles left in Central Ukraine and Belarus were almost completly exterminated by Stalin during Polish Operation of NKVD, massacre far worse than Katyń but less widely known). But would Soviets be willing to release them from hell?
 
The answer to the original post is No. Both sides were exhausted by the war and Poland simply did not have the resources to dump such a large population on the USSR.
Couldn't Poland use its large army at the end of the war and force them across the border

in contrast, is unthinkable, not least because early Second Republic Poland saw its future linked with leading the whole Intermarium region not purging it of non-Poles.
They did try to Polonize the eastern Slavs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonization#Second_Polish_Republic_(1918–1939)
 
In this part of Europe large part of population still did not have national identity back then (if asked they claimed to be "Locals", "Orthodox" and so on).
 
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