Polish Operation of the NKVD
1937 – 1938 · Soviet Union
The Soviet secret police arrested Poles across the USSR during the Great Purge. About 111,000 people were shot and many more were sent to the Gulag.
Before and after
- Led to
- Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946) 1939 – 1946
Related events
1938
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1946
Polish Operation of the NKVD