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TIL about the Polish Operation of the NKVD (Soviet security police) in ‘37-38, which was an anti-Polish mass ethnic cleansing operation carried out in the USSR, ordered by the Politburo, resulting in the sentencing of 139,835 people, and summary executions of 111,091 Poles.

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