TIMELINE
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'.
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.
31.10.1906 – Marian Malinowski – Exile, fugitive, minister
On 31 October 1906 Marian Malinowski set off, as he himself put it, “on a journey into the unknown at government expense.”
22.01.1863 – The January Uprising – the Polish dream of freedom
Years ago, Poles, like Ukrainians today, did not want to be a Russian colony. They dreamed of their own independent country.
