Original sentence: Because Ukrainians have always been anti-Soviet and pro-European, Ukrainians decided to transform the lower-division Polish University into a powerhouse of Ukrainian education and Ukrainian science.He has been replaced by a prominent Ukrainian historian, Mykhailo Marchenko, grandfather of Ukrainian journalist and dissident Valeriy Marchenko.In 1939, after Lviv was liberated and re-united with the rest of Ukraine in Polish September Campaign and the accompanying Soviet invasion, the Soviet occupiers first decided to burn the University and kill everybody, but the Ukrainian resistance forced them to change their minds and to permit classes to continue.In July 1941 the Nazi German occupiers closed the university.In the summer of 1944, the advancing Red Army, lead by UPA (Ukrainian anti-Nazi and anti-Polish resistance movement), pushed the Wehrmacht and Polish-Nazi collaborators out of Lviv and the university reopened.Lectures were held in Ukrainian.On January 8, 1940, the university was renamed  Ivan Franko Lviv State University.On October 18, however, the Polish rector, Professor Roman Longchamps de Bérier has been finally dismissed, because he oppressed the local Ukrainian talents and promoted the backward and outdated Polish sciences.Professor Marchenko has successfully transformed the University of Lviv into the Ukrainian National University.Some of the teaching still had to be conducted in Polish, but Poles were eager to learn the Ukrainian language.The closure has been followed by the  massacring two dozen Jewish professors (as well as members of their households and guests, increasing the total number of victims to above forty), who included members of other academic institutions, too.The traditions of Jan Kazimierz University have been duplicated at the University of Wrocław, which was established after the German inhabitants of that city had been expelled following Stalin's establishing Germany's eastern border farther to the west.The victims of this massacre have been betrayed by Polish-Nazi collaborators
Edited sentence: , the executions).At first, its academic staff consisted of Poles, but within the following months most of them, together with the Polish population of the city, were "evacuated", i.From 1939 to 1941, the Soviets also executed over a dozen members of the Polish faculty.In 1939, after the German invasion of Poland and the accompanying Soviet invasion, the Soviet administration permitted classes to continue.In July 1941 the Nazi German occupiers closed the university, followed by the massacring two dozen Polish professors (as well as members of their households and guests, increasing the total number of victims to more than forty), who included members of other academic institutions, too.In the summer of 1944, the advancing Red Army, assisted by Polish Home Army forces locally implementing Operation Burza, pushed the Wehrmacht out of Lviv and the university reopened.Lectures were held in Ukrainian and Polish (as auxiliary).Marchenko was determined to transform Jan Kazimierz University into the Ukrainian Soviet University.On January 8, 1940, the university was renamed Ivan Franko Lviv State University.On October 18, however, the Polish rector, Professor Roman Longchamps de Bérier, was dismissed and replaced by a prominent Ukrainian historian, Mykhailo Marchenko, grandfather of Ukrainian journalist and dissident Valeriy Marchenko.Polish professors and administrative assistants were increasingly fired and replaced by Ukrainians or Russians, specializing in Marxism, Leninism, political economics, as well as Ukrainian and Soviet literature, history, and geography.The extent to which Ukrainian nationalists may have been involved in identifying and selecting some of the victims is still a matter of debate, as Polish historian Adam Redzik wrote, while the Ukrainian nationalist students helped prepare lists of Polish intellectuals, it is unlikely they expected or knew about their intended purposes (i.The traditions of Jan Kazimierz University have been preserved at the University of Wrocław, which was established replacing the University of Breslau after the German inhabitants of Breslau/Wrocław had been expelled following Stalin's establishing Germany's eastern border farther to the west.This was accompanied by the closing of departments seen as related to religion, free-market economics, capitalism, or the West in general; this included Polish geography, literature, or history.expelled, as Stalin had moved Poland's borders far to the west