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Echoes of Starobilsk Camp: Ukraine’s Reckoning With a Soviet Crime

The Starobilsk camp, originally a Ukrainian Orthodox monastery in the Luhansk region, was repurposed by the Soviet NKVD in 1939 to imprison nearly 3,900 Polish officers under brutal conditions. Today, it stands as a site of profound historical significance for both Poles and Ukrainians.

Starobilsk monastery

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The General’s Fatal Order

After the Soviet attack on Poland on September 17, 1939, the first major city reached by the Red Army was Vilnius. The short-lived defense of the city is told in the film “The Fatal Order. Vilnius 1939”, (“Fatalny rozkaz. Wilno 1939”) which was shown on Polish Television and TV Belsat (in Belarusian), and can currently be viewed (in Polish) on the Internet.

Polish soldiers in Vilnius. Photo from the movie

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