
	Where results make sense

Topic: Polish operation of the NKVD

Related Topics

Mass operations of the NKVD

Katyn Forest

Yezhovshchina

NKVD

Polish minority in Soviet Union

List of Polish Martyrology sites

Great Purge

Moscow Trials

Cheka

Mushroom cloud

Fifth column

Andrei Sakharov

Walther PPK

Novaya Zemlya

Tsar Bomba

	Polish September Campaign - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Polish Bofors 40 mm antiaircraft gun and a bombed Polish Army column during the Battle of the Bzura.
		Polish forces abandoned regions of Pomerania, Greater Poland and Silesia in the first week of the campaign, after a series of battles known as the Battle of the Border.
		On 10 September, the Polish commander in chief, Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły, ordered a general retreat to the southeast, towards the so-called Romanian bridgehead.Meanwhile, the Germans were tightening their encirclement of the Polish forces west of the Vistula (in the Łódź area and, still farther west, around Poznań) and also penetrating deeply into eastern Poland.
	arikah.com /encyclopedia/Polish_September_Campaign_1939 (6338 words)

	(Chapter 1)
		The Polish Air Force in France consisted of two fighter squadrons, with a further two in training but when the Germans invaded France, the French collapse was as swift as the Polish one and, some might argue, less creditable.
		The Polish Independent Parachute Brigade under General Sosabowski had wanted to parachute into Poland to help the ill-fated rising in Warsaw that had broken out on the 1st August, 1944, but were dropped instead at Arnhem as part of operation "Market-Garden" to fight alongside the British 1st Airborne Division and to suffer the same defeat.
		Polish submarines patrolled the North Sea and the Mediterranean; Polish warships served in the Atlantic and Murmansk convoys; the Polish Navy saw service in the Narvik campaign, the Dunkirk evacuation, the assault on Dieppe, hunting the Bismark, the invasion of Sicily and the invasion of France on D-Day.
	www.angelfire.com /ok2/polisharmy/chapter1.html (4118 words)

	Polish minority in the Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Polish communities were inherited from Imperial Russia after the creation of the Soviet Union.
		Initially, the Poles were given 2 Polish Autonomous Districts, one in Belarus and one in Ukraine.
		In addition to the deportation of the Poles (the first recorded deportation of a whole ethnic group in the USSR, See Polish operation of the NKVD), the Polish Communist Party was also decimated Following the Great Purge and was eventually closed in 1938.
	polish-minority-in-the-soviet-union.mindbit.com (522 words)

	Polish contribution to the Allied victory in World War 2 (1939- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The fifth Polish army, created at the end of September of 1939 was the conspiratorial armed force in the occupied territory.
		Polish Corps that was supposed to defend the eastern coast of Scotland, and 1
		In July and August 1944 the Polish troops fought at the bridgeheads on the Western Bank of the Vistula River, and in the battle of Studzianki the Polish armored brigade fought its first battle against the Germans.
	www.polishembassy.ie /worldwar.htm (6148 words)

	Andrzej Paczkowski. Poland, the Enemy Nation
		The Polish resistance assumed that as the front approached, the Home Army, would mobilize the population and begin to fight the Germans, and that the Red Army would come to its defense.
		Officers were interned in NKVD camps, where they were offered a choice between remaining there or joining the Polish army of Zygmunt Berling, formed under the aegis of the Soviet Union.
		In the border regions of Poland, NKVD units from Belorussia and Ukraine lent a hand in the operations.
	www.warsawuprising.com /paper/nkvd_print.htm (1093 words)

	1.JmA - NKVD troops in the front line
		Shchadenko— should be obliged to draft and direct to the NKVD troops 50, 000 servicemen born in 1925 in order to cover the number of NKVD personnel deployed for the Army formation.
		However it should be remembered that since 1943 the NKVD troops returned to their original role of home security troops, whose primary objective was to secure Soviet power both in newly liberated areas and in the rear, so the participation of NKVD units in combat since 1943 should be rather treated as an exception.
		The last accord of NKVD fighting forces expansion was witnessed during the August Storm of 1945, when the 3d NKVD Rifle divison followed the rolling Soviet tanks into Manchuria, to neutralise the japanese resistance and Russian emigrant circles of former ataman Semenov.
	www.1jma.dk /articles/1jmaarticlesNKVD.htm (3356 words)

	History of the Polish Armed Forces 1939-1949
		Polish history, dotted as it is with partitions, revolutions and insurrections, has been the mother of exiles and émigrés; so much so that it is estimated that there are some 15 million Poles and people of Polish extraction living beyond Poland's borders.
		One former Polish soldier, Jean Carrer, puts forward a criticism that was often made by men who had seen service with the AK in Poland and had then made their way to London.
		Dr Prawin, head of the Polish Mission in Berlin, told representatives of the British FO that he thought it was undesirable for the British "...to treat Poland as [a] mere adjunct of the Soviet Union".
	www.angelfire.com /ok2/polisharmy/chapter3.html (10484 words)

	Anti-Polonism, It´s Orgins, to the Present Day, Racism - forum.poland.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Polish culture was seen as a threat to Russian imperial ambitions and officials often engaged in activites meant to weaken or destroy it.
		Four Polish children tied to a tree with barbed wire at the village of £obozowa (Tarnopol County), part of large-scale massacres of Poles in Volhynia (prewar southeastern Poland) by Ukrainians in 1943.
		Polish prisoners of war were executed in the infamous Katyn Massacre and at other sites, and thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including academics and priests, were sent to labor camps (GuLags).
	forum.poland.com /index.php?showtopic=1288 (2174 words)

	Great Purge - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - The Great Purge (Russian: Большая чистка, transliterated Bolshaya ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A series of national operations of the NKVD was carried out during 1937–1940, justified by the fear of the fifth column in the expectation of war with "the most probable adversary", i.e.
		The Polish operation of the NKVD was the first of this kind, setting an example of dealing with other targeted minorities.
		NKVD local officials were mandated to arrest and execute a specific number of "counter-revolutionaries", produced by upper officials based on various statistics.
	www.vacavillecaus.com /profile/Great_Purge (3873 words)

	Magdeburg Sting 1936 - Part XII
		From Polish territory, occupied by NKVD troops of Colonel Siemion Moysheyevich Kirvoshein, 1,700,000 of poles, women, men and children, were sent to Kazakhstan and Siberia on a one way trip.
		Soviet NKVD col. Semyon Moiseyevich Krivoshein salutes cringingly his comrade at arms and war crimes - Nazi Gen. Heinz Guderian, at the military parade crowning the Nazi-Soviet slaughter of Poland.
		The Polish Air Force made 223 sorties using bases in faraway Italy, and lost 34 aircraft, but the effect of these airdrops were mostly psychological.
	www.minelinks.com /war/epilog.html (960 words)

	Communist Secret Police: NKVD
		Later that year the new head of the NKVD, Genrikh Yagoda, arrested Lev Kamenev, Gregory Zinoviev, Ivan Smirnov, and thirteen others and accused them of being involved with Leon Trotsky in a plot to murder Joseph Stalin and other party leaders.
		After the failure of Genrikh Yagoda to obtain enough evidence to convict Nickolai Bukharin, he was sacked and Joseph Stalin appointed Nikolai Yezhov as head of the NKVD.
		The first three heads of the NKVD were all executed: Genrikh Yagoda (1934-36), Nikolai Yezhov (1936-39) and Lavrenti Beria (1939-53).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSnkvd.htm (2730 words)

	NKVD
		In addition to its state security and police functions, however, some of its departments handled other matters, such as transport, fire guards, border troops, etc., the tasks that were traditionally assigned to the Ministry of the Interior (MVD).
		In 1934, the OGPU was incorporated into the newly-created NKVD of the USSR, becoming the Main Directorate for State Security (GUGB); the NKVD of the Russian SFSR ceased to exist and was not resurrected until 1946 (as the MVD of the RSFSR).
		The NKVD's intelligence unit organized overseas assassinations of ex-Soviet citizens and foreigners who were regarded as enemies of the USSR.
	www.measuroo.com /Acr-N/NKVD.php (1741 words)

	The Forum of the 1.Jagdmoroner Abteilung - NKVD troops: the frontline
		Yes, NKVD system was intensively purged, with a peak in 1936-1937, but the process had apparently little impact on the personnel of NKVD Border Guards personnel who made up the core of NKVD troops fighting on the frontline during the war.
		The armour NKVD possessed was essentially concentrated in the Motorized Rifle regiments of NKVD Motorized Rifle divisions, and there were tank companies in the reconnaissance battalions of the NKVD Rifle divisions.
		However, NKVD divisions being raised in later periods of the war, received no armour, instead, they could apply to the Red Army formation headquarters for the temporary attachment of an armoured unit for the operational purposes.
	www.1jma.dk /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=513 (4587 words)

	Russia’s Refusal to Recognize Katyn Massacre Shocks Polish Leaders - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spokesman for Polish President Lech Kaczynski Maciej Lopinski has said that the Russian chief Military Prosecutor’s Office failure to recognize Katyn crime victims as victims of Stalinist’s repression was “shocking”, the Polish PAP news agency reported.
		The Sejm (Polish parliament) Speaker Marek Jurek also called the decision shocking, as, in his point of view, peace and security can be built only on the condemnation of evil.
		Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said that the country would not give up its efforts to persuade all countries that the killing of Polish officers in 1940 was a genocide.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2006/03/06/katynpoland.shtml (720 words)

	Katyn Forest Massacre
		Katyn Forest is a wooded area near Gneizdovo village, a short distance from Smolensk in Russia where, in 1940 on Stalin's orders, the NKVD shot and buried over 4000 Polish service personnel that had been taken prisoner when the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939 in WW2 in support of the Nazis.
		In 1943 the Nazis exhumed the Polish dead and blamed the Soviets.
		At the moment I want to establish whether or not the Polish dead, originally buried in Katyn are in fact still buried in Katyn Forest, or have otherwise been disposed of by Soviet Power.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Troy/1791 (876 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tribute to Polish officers killed by NKVD in Mednoye 02.09.2006 Ceremonies are being held in Mednoye, Russia, commemorating the memory of Polish police officers murdered there by the Soviet NKVD in 1940.
		The Polish War Cemetery in Miednoje Bishop Ryszard Karpinski The War Cemetery in Miednoje in Russia (about 200 km north of Moscow) is one of three cemeteries, beside Kharkov in Ukraine and Katyn in Russia, which are called 'Katyn cemeteries'.
		Some 22 thousand Polish prisoners of war are believed to have been killed there and in a number of nearby locations by the Soviet NKVD police in the spring of 1940.The World Day of Remembrance of Katyn Victims commemorates the date of the discovery of the mass graves by the Nazis in 1943.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=nkvd (2593 words)

	Wendy Goldman \| Stalinist Terror and Democracy: The 1937 Union Campaign \| The American Historical Review, 110.5 \| The ...
		"Order 00447" for "mass operations" in July 1937 set target numbers for the imprisonment or execution of criminals, clergy, former kulaks, and other "hostile elements." It was followed by "Order 00485," which led to the mass roundup of Polish nationals, and "Order 00486," which mandated the arrests of wives of men convicted of counterrevolutionary crimes.
		The discovery of the "mass operations" encouraged some historians to conceptualize the terror more narrowly as "a series of centrally directed punitive actions." In attributing the terror almost solely to Stalin and his close supporters, they discounted the influences of local officials, social tensions, and institutional conflicts in spreading repression.
		The NKVD then moved in, made arrests, and ensured the removal of Rubel', the regional committee chairman.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/110.5/goldman.html (11497 words)

	Poland and Polish Forum
		It is worth mentioning that the Bykovnia pits did not say their „last world” and may provide still a lot of valuable information, since the Ukrainian authorities plan to carry out further exhumations there.
		There were found in Bykovnia numerous objects, belonging undoubtedly to the Polish citizens, among others, the uniforms, military caps, “knee-boots”, Polish coins (including their issue of 1939), and also the objects manufactured in Poland or in the Western Europe.
		In 1997, the Ukrainian authorities carried out exhumations in the neighborhood of the former NKVD prison in Vladimir in Volhynien in order to check information disclosed by the local population on burial of Stalin’s regime victims at that place.
	pub10.bravenet.com /forum/775788990/show/889035 (957 words)

	The Polish Air Force in Italy - Rimini - Spitfires 318 Squadron
		The Polish Air Force in Italy - Rimini - Spitfires 318 Squadron
		In Britain, the Poles' two fighter squadrons were increased to seven (302, 303, 306, 315, 316 and 317) and a further one was formed in Italy (318).
		The Poles flew a night fighter squadron (307), a fighter-reconnaissance squadron (309), two bomber squadrons (300 and 305), a Coastal Command bomber squadron (304), an artillery observation squadron in Italy (663) and a special duties flight (formerly 301 bomber squadron redesignated as 1586 Flight).
	www.polishsoldier.co.uk /polishquestion.htm (4121 words)

	The Paragraph
		But the common thread from the bloody invasion of Iraq in 2003 through Abu Ghraib to Haditha is that Bush cavalierly sent young Americans into a complex and frightening conflict with false and alarmist rhetoric ringing in their ears.
		Additional campaigns of repression were carried on against social groups which were believed or were accused, for ulterior political motives, to have opposed the Soviet state and the politics of the Communist Party.
		National operations of NKVD: A series of national operations of the NKVD was carried out during 1937-1940, justified by the fear of the fifth column in the expectation of war with “the most probable adversary”, i.e., Germany, as well as according to the notion of the “hostile capitalist surrounding”, which wants to destabilize the country.
	theparagraph.com /page/3 (5109 words)

	brother brick
		I had to have an operation to get it cut out.
		It’s finished and I must admit that some of the most polished songwriting I have done is on that album.
		Lest you might think that he’s talking about some Shoes-type polish or something, be assured that Challenger 7 unleash buckets full of guitar licks that will drive the most rock happy fans wild, and they are only less rock oriented in relationship to Brother Brick.
	www.nkvdrecords.com /brobrick.htm (6759 words)

	Palgrave Macmillan : Catalogue Page
		The second section of the volume looks at mass operations of the secret police (NKVD) against social outcasts, Poles and other 'hostile' ethnic groups.
		Mass Operations of the NKVD, 1937-38: A Survey; B.McLoughlin
		The Fictitious 'Hitler-Jugend' Conspiracy of the Moscow NKVD; H.Schafranek & N.Musienko
	www.palgrave.com /products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403939039 (303 words)

	Stalin's Terror; High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union:Edited by Barry McLoughlin and Kevin ...
		Social Disorder, Mass Repression and the NKVD during the 1930s
		Mass Operations of the NKVD, 1937--8: A Survey
		The Fictitious ``Hitler-Jugend'' Conspiracy of the Moscow NKVD
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=1403901198 (268 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)