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“It was very cold and we had nothing to eat, and as a result the child died of cold and hunger”: testimonies show horror of Soviet deportations

Police officers and civilian "enemies of the people" arrested in September 1939 and escorted by NKVD convoy units to loading points abroad. Public domain

To mark the 80th anniversary of Soviet deportations of Poles from occupied territories, newly released testimonies make harrowing reading.

Poles deported to Siberia remembered in Lublin

Tribute was paid in the eastern Polish city of Lublin on Sunday to Poles expelled from the former eastern borderlands and deported to Siberia by the Soviet authorities. The Lublin ceremonies marked the 80th anniversary of mass deportations.

It’s snow joke: Polish man cycles 400 kilometres in -60 cold

Along with the cold Valerjan Romanovski braved wolves and frozen roads as he cycled across the man-killing wilderness of Siberia.

Skeleton of 2,500-year-old Scythian warrior found buried in ‘Valley of the Kings’

Buried with his weapon and golden ornaments, the warrior discovered by archaeologists from Jagiellonian University in Kraków was found in an untouched grave in an area known for both its rich burial sites and notorious grave-robbing.

Poland’s ‘largest uprising’ EVER took place 153 years ago today

The failure of the insurrection brought an even tighter grip on Polish territory by Russia.

Incredible story of woman’s escape from Soviet gulag before starting a new life in Iran is turned into moving documentary

Fleeing Stalin’s terror, Maria eventually arrived in Iran, a land which she said was blessed with proper beds and good and plentiful food, two of life’s essentials denied to her by Stalin’s regime.

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