| Balts For the similarly named ethnic group inhabiting northern Pakistani Kashmir, see Balti peopleThe Balts or Baltic peoples (People who live by the Baltic Sea), defined as speakers of one of the Baltic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family, are descended from a group of Indo-European tribes who settled the area between lower Vistula and upper Daugava and Dnieper rivers on the southeast shore of the Baltic Sea. Balts
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| Gulag Gulag or GULAG was the government agency that administered the penal labour camps of the Soviet Union. Gulag is the Russian acronym for The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies (лавное Управление Исправительно-Трудовых Лагерей и колоний; Glavnoye Upravlyeniye Ispravityel'no-Trudovih Lagyeryey i koloniy) of the NKVD. Gulag
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| Joseph Stalin Joseph_Stalin
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| Janusz Zajdel Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (August 15, 1938 in Warsaw July 19, 1985 in Warsaw) was a prominent Polish science fiction author. He died from cancer.Zajdel is a precursor of social and dystopian fiction. In his works, he envisions totalitarian states and collapsed societies. Janusz_Zajdel
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| Masuria Masuria (; ) is an area in northeastern Poland famous for its lakes and forests. Masuria
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| Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, colloquially named after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, was an agreement officially titled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and signed in Moscow in the early hours of August 24, 1939 (but dated August 23). Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact
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| Polish contribution to World War II The European theater of World War II opened with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. The Polish Army was quickly pushed back. In keeping with the terms of the Secret Additional Protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Germany informed the Soviet Union that its forces were nearing the Soviet interest zone in Poland and so urged the Soviet Union to move into its zone. Polish_contribution_to_World_War_II
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| Armia Krajowa The Armia Krajowa (the Home Army, literally translated as the Country's Army), abbreviated "AK", was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland. It was formed in February 1942 from the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Struggle) and over the next two years absorbed most other Polish underground forces. Armia_Krajowa
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| Armia Krajowa Talk:Armia_Krajowa
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| Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (, December 5, 1867 May 12, 1935) was Chief of State (1918Second Polish Republic. From mid-World War I he was a major influence in Poland's politics, and an important figure on the European political scene. He is considered largely responsible for Poland regaining independence in 1918, after a hundred twenty-three years of partitions. Józef_Piłsudski
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| Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz (, ) is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers, with a population of 360,142 (June 2008), agglomeration more than 400 000, which makes it the 8th biggest city in Poland. It has been the co-capital with Toruń of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously the capital of the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship (1947-1998) and before that, of the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1945-1947). Since 1999 it is also the seat of Bydgoszcz County. Bydgoszcz
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| Eastern Bloc Eastern Bloc, Communist Bloc or Soviet Bloc were used to refer to the former Communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, including the countries of the Warsaw Pact, along with Yugoslavia and Albania, which were not aligned with the Soviet Union after 1948 and 1960 respectively. Eastern_Bloc
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| Jedwabne pogrom The Jedwabne pogrom (or Jedwabne massacre) () was the mass murder of Jewish residents of Jedwabne in German Nazi occupied Poland that took place on July 10, 1941, during World War II. The responsibility sensu stricto was ascribed to approximately 40 non-Jewish ethnic Polish men from or around the town of Jedwabne. Jedwabne_pogrom
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| Royal Prussia Royal Prussia (; ; ) was a province of the Kingdom of Poland from 1466 and then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1772. Royal Prussia included Pomerelia, Chełmno Land (Kulmerland), Malbork Voivodeship (Marienburg), Gdańsk (Danzig), Toruń (Thorn), and Elbląg (Elbing). Royal_Prussia
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| Okay Okay, (frequently abbreviated as OK) is a colloquial English word denoting approval, assent, or acknowledgment that has been a loanword from English for many other languages. As an adjective it means 'adequate', 'acceptable' ("this is okay to send out"), often in contrast to 'good' ("the food was okay"); it also functions as an adverb in this sense. Okay
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| Battle of Warsaw (1920) Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920)
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| Allies Talk:Allies
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| Invasion of Poland (1939) Invasion_of_Poland_(1939)
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| History of Poland (1939–1945) The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses the German invasion of Poland through to the end of World War II. On September 1, 1939, without a formal declaration of war, Germany invaded Poland. Germany's pretext was that Polish troops had allegedly committed "provocations" along the German-Polish border, which was actually a staged attack by the Germans. History_of_Poland_(1939–1945)
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| Polish–Soviet War Polish–Soviet_War
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