“Open up! Get going! We are leaving!!!” For the deportees, it was the beginning of their story; for the Soviet services, it was the end of a couple of months of preparation.  This was professor Albin Głowacki talking about his latest book, entitled ”In taiga and in steppes. About the deportations of Polish citizens into the depths of the Soviet Union in 1940-1941” during a promotional meeting. The book was published by the Sybir Memorial Museum. Just before the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, the Author brought new archival materials concerning the preparations for the deportations from Ukraine. Thanks to them, in the book we can find previously unknown information, and the professor’s colorful stories about a historian’s work in Soviet and post-Soviet archives are truly fascinating.

The book  can be purchased in our online shop: https://sklep-sybir.pl/produkt/w-tajdze-i-w-stepie-o-deportacjach-obywateli-polskich-w-glab-zwiazku-sowieckiego-w-latach-1940-1941/