88 years ago the head of the NKVD Nikolai Yezhov issued the order no. 00485 ordering “the complete elimination of the Polish spy networks”. During the so-called Polish NKVD operations in 1937-38 in the USSR, more than 100,000 Poles were murdered.
by eloyend
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> The majority of the shooting victims were ethnically Polish, but not all, with some belonging to various minority groups from the Kresy macro-region, for instance, Ruthenians; these groups in the Soviet worldview had some element of Polish culture or heritage, and were therefore also “Polish”. The NKVD agents looked through local phone books to expedite the procedure and detained people with names that sounded Polish.
And why dont we talk about it school? Never heard of it
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