To: longnshort who wrote (1027526 ) 8/14/2017 1:34:48 PM From: Brumar89 1 RecommendationRecommended By
Respond to 1937: The "Polish Operation" of the NKVD was launched 80 years ago - it resulted in the execution of over 110,000 Poles in the USSR.ccording to archives of the NKVD: 111,091 Poles and people accused of ties with Poland, were sentenced to death, and 28,744 were sentenced to labor camps (known as the "dry guillotine" of slow death by exposure, malnutrition, and overwork); [14] 139,835 victims in total. [15] This number constitutes 10% of the total number of people officially convicted during the Yezhovshchina period, based on confirming NKVD documents. [16] the number of ethnic Poles in the USSR dropped by 165,000 in that period. "It is estimated that Polish losses in the Ukrainian SSR were about 30%, while in the Belorussian SSR... the Polish minority was almost completely annihilated." [13] Timothy Snyder gives a conservative estimate of 85,000 confirmed Poles executed simultaneously across the country. [7] NKVD Order ? 00486 . The women were generally sentenced to deportation to Kazakhstan for an average of 5 to 10 years. Their children were put in orphanages to be brought up as Soviet, with no knowledge of their origins. All possessions of the accused were confiscated. The parents of the executed men – as well as their in-laws – were purposely left with nothing to live on, which usually sealed their fate as well. Statistical extrapolation, wrote Jasinski, increases the number of Polish victims in 1937–1938 to around 200–250,000 depending on size of their families. [17] en.wikipedia.org
