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,‘Midway to Nowhere’, the luxury of this choice. To be more precise, those who had experienced Soviet misrule between 1939 and 1941 felt they had no option but to remain in exile, though refugees from western Poland, who had never lived under a communist regime, had fewer qualms about returning. The Balts, who had suffe

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Resettlement,civilian refugees in Africa, India and the Middle East, most of whom were the wives, parents and children of members of the Polish armed forces.. At the end of 1946 the first Baltic refugees travelled to Britain from DP camps in Germany and Austria. In their case, it was opportunism on the part of t

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Communities,nist rule in their home countries would, they were convinced, corrupt their nations’ cultural heritage. It was therefore their duty to preserve this heritage intact in anticipation of the day when they would return.

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,‘A Timeless and Magical World?’,e chaos and violence that followed. In her recent interviews with Latvian citizens deported to the Soviet Union during and after the Second World War and, much later, released to their country of birth, Vieda Skultans found that the narrators evoked a ‘timeless and magical world’ of childhood and yo

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Defeat, on 23 August 1939. These clauses provided for the division of Poland and the Baltic states into ‘two spheres of influence’, the German and the Soviet. Although war with the Soviet Union was part of Hitler’s long-term plans, he preferred not to have the Soviets opposed to him during his projected co

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