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Russian ambassador left red-faced after being attacked ‘with paint’ at Red Army cemetery in Warsaw

Russia’s ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev was pelted with the red substance after arriving at a Warsaw cemetery to pay respects to Red Army soldiers who died during WWII. Leszek Szymański/PAP

Russia’s ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev was pelted with the red substance after arriving at a Warsaw cemetery to pay respects to Red Army soldiers who died during WWII.

StopRussiaNow billboards at Soviet Military Mausoleum

Billboards showing scenes from the Russia-Ukrainian war will appear at Warsaw's Soviet Military Mausoleum on May 9, celebrated by Russia as the day of the Red Army's victory over Nazi Germany.

Poland marks anniversary of Katyn massacre

Polish officials marked the 82nd anniversary of the massacre of Polish POWs by the Soviet secret police NKVD on Wednesday, with the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, urging for the crime of Katyn not to be forgotten.

Activist investigating Soviet crimes against Poles detained in Moscow

Alexander Guryanov, Polish Programme Coordinator at the now-banned Memorial rights group investigating Soviet crimes, was detained during an anti-war protest in Moscow on Sunday.

Soviet war memorial destroyed in Poland

A Red Army memorial has been demolished in the north-western Polish city of Koszalin by unidentified perpetrators, the police have reported.

Lights of remembrance: Poignant trail of candles light up ‘horror tracks’ used by Soviets to deport Poles to the East

Occurring on the night of February 9th and 10th 1940, around 140,000 Poles were roused from their sleep in the first of four wartime deportation actions that would see several hundred thousand forcibly exiled from their ancestral home.

Siberian experience captured in new Białystok museum

In this episode of The Debrief, we are in the newly opened Sybir Memorial Museum in the city of Białystok, which aims to highlight centuries of Russian and Soviet deportations to Siberia.

House of horror where secret police tortured hundreds to become museum in memory of victims

The building in the centre of Augustów in north-east Poland was used by the NKVD and the Communist secret police to hold and interrogate victims of the 1945 Augustów Roundups, known as the little Katyń.

Harrowing artefacts of those exiled to Siberia, including a child's 'dead teddy bear', go on show at new museum in Białystok

Opening to coincide with the anniversary of Stalin’s invasion of Poland on 17 September, 1939, the Sybir Memorial Museum is the largest and most important institution dealing with deportations to Russia and later the Soviet Union.

Harrowing story of the Warsaw ‘Robinson Crusoes’ who after the Warsaw Uprising, defied the Germans and stayed in the capital

The ‘castaways’ numbered from 500 up to possibly 2,000 people, but only a few hundred made it to the end. To survive, they formed themselves into small groups, pooling skills and dividing tasks. For the months ahead they hunkered in their shelters, each an island in the ocean of ruins.

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