The Polish post-socialist transition is coined by a growing polarisation of society. In no other EU-country, so many people are still living from agriculture and in the countryside, the gap is widening, too. Modern agro-businesspeople live door to door with peasants continuing their small-scale production from the socialist era. In a country with a very small dimensioned agriculture the access to land is crucial, both economically and symbolically. Especially tense are these conflicts in the South-Eastern tip of Poland, which was inhabited predominately by Lemkos, a karpatho-rusyn minority. After a forced mass-deportation in 1947 the interethnic relations are rather complicated today.