The Polish Operation of the NKVD (Soviet security service) in 1937–1938 was an anti-Polish mass-ethnic cleansing operation of the NKVD carried out in the Soviet Union against Poles …

NKVD units were also used to repress the prolonged partisan war in Ukraine and the Baltics, which lasted until the early 1950s. NKVD also faced strong opposition in Poland from the …

The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, across …

Mar 4, 2017 · in November 1938, the NKVD arrested over 140,000 people, 111,000 of whom were soon shot. Stalin even dissolved the Communist Party of Poland, ordering most of the arrested …

The "Polish operation" by the Soviet NKVD was a criminal operation conducted in the Soviet Union between 1937 and 1938, which resulted in the sentencing of at least 139,835 people - …

During the German invasion of the USSR, the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) brutally murdered between 10,000 and 40,000 political prisoners in Western Ukraine over the course of eight …

One horrendous crime against the Polish nation has remained all but forgotten. To this day, it is left out of our historical consciousness. I am referring to the NKVD’s infamous “Polish …

Sep 4, 2023 · The "Polish operation" of the NKVD — despite the shocking scale of this genocide — was pushed to the margins of collective memory and did not penetrate the consciousness …

Feb 13, 2020 · This was the NKVD’s infamous “Polish Operation” in 1937-1938 – the first genocide against the Polish nation. It was a drastic and ruthless crime of a colossal nature. …

From October 1939, the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet agency overseeing internal security and political repression, spread its activities through the occupied …