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.

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Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946) 1939 – 1946

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Polish Operation of the NKVD