Harbin – the Capital of Catholicism in Siberia. History of the functioning of the Catholic Structures and Parishes.
Harbin – the Capital of Catholicism in Siberia. History of the functioning of the Catholic Structures and Parishes.
Left on the wrong side of the border
Viktoryia Kolchyna: In September 1939, the Polish city of Hrodno stayed exactly where it was. But by the end of the year, its people no longer lived in Poland. Overnight, they became Soviet – whether they understood what that meant or not.
Borovichi – Crime and Remembrance. Home Army Soldiers in NKVD-MVD Camp No. 270
Almost exactly 80 years after the deportation of Polish soldiers, in the early morning hours of December 8, 2024, local residents discovered that the memorial complex dedicated to the victims of Camp No. 270 in Jogola had been vandalized and desecrated.
Through the Lens of a Camera: The 1863 Uprising in Collodion Photography
Andrzej Górski, photographer, set out in the footsteps of the January Uprising. He photographed using a 19th century photographic technique – the so-called wet collodion.
From the Eastern Borderlands to Siberia. Voluntary resettlement of peasants at the turn of the 20th century.
Sergiusz Leończyk: At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, voluntary resettlement, also known as ‘Siberian fever’, began in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth seized by Russia as a result of the partitions.
Deportations to the East in 1944–1945 as a Tool of Pacification in the Eastern Borderlands
Dariusz Węgrzyn: In 1944-1945, a total of approximately 35,000 Poles were repressed in the entire eastern territories taken from the Second Polish Republic. These figures are highly approximate and there are also estimates of 10,000 more. Given the lack of detailed research into the scale of the deportations, it is safe to say that we are operating with de facto data from 20 years ago.
The Return of the Tyrant
Sergei Lebedev: The Russian state is not only killing the living by attacking Ukraine. It mocks the dead, the dead of the Gulag lying in the frozen Kolyma soil, erecting a monument to the guards…
Hungary’s Temporary Occupation – For 46 Years
Rajmund Fekete: When the Red Army entered Hungary in August 1944, no one expected it to remain there for long. And yet. The Soviet soldiers finally left the country in 1991, almost half a century later.
The Red Army in Bulgaria, 1944 – 1947. The Invasion and the Composition of the Soviet Troops in Bulgaria
Boyan Zhekov: On the 4th of September 1944, the 3rd UF’s plan for an offensive in Bulgaria was relayed to the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. It provided for the occupation of the eastern part of the state only. The very next day the Stavka of the Supreme High Command of the WPRA approved the plan. The actions were scheduled to begin on the 10th of September 1944.