Memory of Poles murdered in the East

– Of the alleged NKVD threes sentenced, nearly 140 1000 Poles received over 111 1000 death sentences, or 4 fifths! The remainder of them went to the camps, which was besides frequently life deprivation. The wives of the convicts were besides imprisoned in the camps and their children were placed in orphanages. fewer of our countrymen, who were not arrested, were taken distant from their memory – wrote Karol Nawrocki, the president of Poland. The letter was read by Jan Józef Kasprzyk, advisor to the president of Poland.


– present we meet to pay tribute to our countrymen who were persecuted, lost their lives, freedom, health, names and surnames as part of the alleged anti-Polish operation. Poles, like another nationalities surviving in the russian Union - Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, Belarusians - Stalin and his office treated as enemies. But the top scale of repression affected Poles. They were murdered only due to the fact that they were Poles," said deputy president of IPN Dr. Karol Polejowski.
The “Polish Operation” of the NKVD conducted during the large panic period in the russian Socialist Union is undoubtedly 1 of the biggest crimes marked by genocide in the past of 20th century Europe.


89 years ago the Soviets began a criminal action against Poles. Stalin's panic took over people who were in russian territory after the Polish-bolshevik War, erstwhile the easternmost lands of the I Republic remained outside the borders of the reborn Poland.


More than 140,000 people were arrested under the pretext of espionage and counter-revolutionary activity. Between 1937 and 1938, the Soviets murdered more than 100,000 Poles.