Poles Under Communism

Daughters of the KGB: Moscow’s Secret Spies, Sleepers and Assassins of the Cold War, by Douglas Boyd

PoloniaApril 22, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaApril 22, 2020January 27, 202401481

The relationship between the KGB and its ghastly brood of “daughter” organizations through which Moscow terrorized the satellite states grabbed by Stalin during and after...

Records Relating to the Katyn Forest Massacre, at the National Archives

PoloniaApril 11, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaApril 11, 2020January 27, 202402265

Summary of Events Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union each invaded Poland in September of 1939, having divided the country into separate spheres of influence...

Poles Under Communism Polish Experience

Early Postwar Poland: Soviet camps in “liberated” Poland

PoloniaMarch 21, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaMarch 21, 2020January 27, 202402901

The first NKVD camps were established right after the Red Army entered the eastern territories of the Commonwealth. New ones were created in Lublin...

Book Reviews Poles Under Communism Polish/Jewish Relations

“Poland’s Jews Didn’t Know Communism Was Violent and Totalitarian” Exculpation Debunked

PoloniaMarch 18, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaMarch 18, 2020January 27, 202402080

Essential Papers on Jews and the Left, by Ezra Mendelsohn (Editor). 1997 Reviewed by Jan Peczkis This book centers on personages and political movements. It...

Poles Under Communism Polish Experience

A Forgotten Odyssey – The Untold Story of 1,700,000 Poles Deported to Siberia in 1940 [five-part video]

PoloniaMarch 1, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaMarch 1, 2020January 27, 202404562

In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labor camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived....

Poles Under Communism Polish Experience

The Communist Yoke Imposed Upon Poland: How the Soviet “Liberators” Pillaged Poland

PoloniaJanuary 29, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaJanuary 29, 2020January 27, 202401912

The Soviet dictator’s decisions and the resulting conduct of the Soviets in the post WWII Poland clearly shows what the “liberation” actually meant. Stalin treated...

Poles Under Communism Polish Experience

Nazi Germany & Soviet Russia war crimes against Poland, 1939-45 (video)

PoloniaJanuary 23, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaJanuary 23, 2020January 27, 202401308

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Current Issues Poles Under Communism

Dear Russia – A Response to Putin’s lies

PoloniaJanuary 8, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaJanuary 8, 2020January 27, 202402146

In recent weeks, Putin, alongside high ranking Russian officials, have been rewriting history: they are shifting the blame for the start of World War II...

Book Reviews Poles Under Communism Recommended Books

Poland Sold Out at Yalta: Forced Communization of Poland. Postwar Housing Shortage (Why Poles Not Thrilled By Jewish Survivors). Kielce Pogrom No Spontaneous Anti-Semitic Riot

PoloniaJanuary 7, 2020September 27, 2024

by PoloniaJanuary 7, 2020September 27, 202401984

I Saw Poland Betrayed, by Arthur Bliss Lane. 1948 Reviewed by Jan Peczkis. This seminal work is nothing less than a one-volume history of Poland...

Book Reviews Poles Under Communism Polish/Jewish Relations

Media-Touted 1946 Anti-Polish Report Debunked

PoloniaDecember 1, 2019September 27, 2024

by PoloniaDecember 1, 2019September 27, 202401639

Review of: Department of State. 1946. The Jews of Poland Since the Liberation. Intelligence Report, United States Government. THIS MEDIA-BALLYHOOED POST-WWII U. S. GOVERNMENT REPORT,...