After fierce combats in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, Polish soldiers triumphantly entered Bologna.

The last weeks of the World War Two in Europe. Last, but critical engagements, and at the same time, more victims. In the morning of 16 April 1945 the operation of crossing the Oder river started, in which soldiers of the First Polish Army took part. Among the Polish units the First Infantry Divisio

For several decades after the war, families referred to the victims of the Roundup as “missing” because they did not know their fate. Many believed that they had been deported to Sybir, and that they would one day return. It was not until 2011 when Nikita Petrov, a researcher from the (now illeg

On 24 March 1942, the first stage of the evacuation of the soldiers serving in the so-called Anders Army from the Soviet Union to Persia began. About 78,000 exiles, who joined the Polish army and 37 thousand civilians, including about 18,000 Polish children were evacuated in total.

There was a time when large numbers of Poles in the Soviet Union lost their lives simply because of their origin and surname. One of the elements of the “Great Terror” unleashed by Stalin in 1937-1938 was the so-called “Polish Operation”, in which NKVD officers, on suspicion of espionage, mu

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the first communist state in history. The decision to create it was taken on 30 December 1922.