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.
“It was a merciless time”. The End of the War in Austria 1945
Barbara Stelzl-Marx: 8 May 1945 is rightly regarded as a turning point in history—similar to the end of the First World War, the “Anschluss” of Austria in March 1938, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Abduction of Czechoslovaks from Czechoslovakia to the USSR after 1945
Jan Dvořák: However, the restored Czechoslovakia, whose territory was not fully liberated by the Allies until early May, was no longer the sovereign state it had been before the WWII.
The Red Army in Romania – from enemy to friend and back
Cosmin Budeancă: On 6 September 1940, King Carol II of Romania was forced to abdicate and flee the country. On the same day, at the age of just 18 years, his son Michael I ascended to the throne, with, however, little authority beyond the prerogatives of being supreme commander of the army and naming a prime minister with full powers, named “conductor”.
Siberia Through the Eyes of Polish Jews
Martyna Rusiniak-Karwat: According to NKVD sources, the Jews deported deep into the Soviet Union in the summer of 1940 accounted for more than 84% of all those deported at that time. They were placed in 251 special settlements within the Soviet Union.
The first Polish exiles in Sybir
Bartłomiej Garczyk: In the 1660s, during the Polish-Moscow wars, groups of Poles defending the cities and fortresses of Smolensk and Severow were imprisoned and taken deep into the Muscovite state and incorporated into the crews of the fortresses there.