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7 unusual facts about Soviet occupation of Poland


Anti-Communism in the Communist Bloc

However, the last known 'cursed soldier', Józef Franczak, was killed in an ambush as late as 1963, almost 20 years after the Soviet take-over of Poland.

Białystok Ghetto

The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa and took over the city within days.

Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł

His father Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł was deported to a Gulag during the Soviet occupation of Poland and died on 6 April 1945.

Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł

He was deported to a Gulag during the Soviet occupation of Poland and died on 6 April 1945.

Lwów Ghetto

The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa and a week later, on June 30, 1941 overran the city of Lwów.

Międzyrzec Podlaski

The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on 22 June 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa.

West Belarus

The corresponding terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed earlier in Moscow were broken, when the German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941.



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