On 31 May 1935 around 6 a.m. a special train which carried an urn with Marshall Józef Piłsudski’s heart arrived at Vilnius.
31.05.1935 – A funeral for a Marshal’s heart
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30.01.1930 – The kulak deportation
On 30 January 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) decided to launch the largest resettlement operation in the entire history of the Soviet Union, still referred to today as the ‘kulak deportation’.
4.07.1928 – The Founding Convention of the Sybiraks’ Association
On 4 July 1928, the founding congress of the Sybiraks’ Association was held at the Warsaw University of Technology.
17.02.1926 – Unexpected death of the metropolitan
Father Jan Cieplak was auxiliary bishop of the Mogilev archdiocese, at that time the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the world, covering the whole of Russia up to Sakhalin.
30.12.1922 – A homeland of gulags, hunger and terror
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the first communist state in history. The decision to create it was taken on 30 December 1922.
18.03.1921 – At the mercy of the Soviets
On 18 March 1921, the treaty ending the Polish-Bolshevik war (the so-called Treaty of Riga) was signed in Riga.
23.07.1920 – Japanese help for Polish children
On 23 July 1920, the first ship from Vladivostok with Polish children evacuated from Siberia arrived in Tsuruga, Japan. By 1922, a total of more than 700 kids had arrived in the Land of the Cherry Blossom. Their first stops were the cities of Tsuruga and Osaka.
10.01.1920 – The capitulation of the 5th Siberian Division
Volunteer Polish units in Siberia began to organise as early as the turn of 1917/1918.
14.02.1919 – The war started in Mosty
The Polish-Bolshevik war broke out on 14 February 1919. The site of the first confrontation was the town of Mosty near Szczuczyn in the Grodno region, where Polish Army units halted the Red Army’s march.