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The Flight and expulsion of Poles from the USSR describes the dramatic decrease of ethnic Polish populations, from October 1917 to World War II and the postwar era, in lands to the east of the boundaries of present-day Poland. They began to emigrate from this area during the unrest of the October Revolution. In 1943-1944 the news of the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, in Eastern Poland in 1945, and in the aftermath of World War II, caused many survivors to try to escape. The final expulsion of ethnic Poles from the eastern territories was designed by Soviet leaders. This action was accepted by the US administration and UK government, during the Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam meetings, in the hopes of bringing peace in postwar Europe. Poland obtained the so-called Recovered Territories as compensation for loss of Eastern Poland, which caused Polish-German tensions. ==Russian Civil War and Polish–Soviet War== The unrest of the Soviet Revolution and Russian Civil War motivated ethnic Poles to emigrate to Poland after it established independence during the First World War.〔(Rodacynasyberii.pl )〕 Many Polish politicians, generals, writers, artists and composers were born in the Russian Empire (outside the Congress Poland/Vistula Land) and migrated to Poland in its 1918-1939 borders : *Józef Piłsudski - politician *Władysław Raczkiewicz - politician *Stefan Frankowski - commodore *Adam Mohuczy - counter admiral *Władysław Raginis - Battle of Wizna commander *Jerzy Giedroyc - journalist *Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz - writer *Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz - writer *Czesław Miłosz - poet *Melchior Wańkowicz - writer *Karol Szymanowski - composer Future writer and painter Witkacy, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, participated in the Revolution. He emigrated to Poland with anti-revolutionary feelings. After the German and Soviet 1939 invasions, he committed suicide.〔(Daniel C. Gerould, ''Witkacy: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz As an Imaginative Writer,'' (1981) )〕 Writer Paweł Jasienica, born in Russia, moved to Central Poland after the Revolution. He later lived in Grodno (now Hrodna in Belarus) and Wilno (now Vilnius in Lithuania), and after WWII moved to the new Poland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flight and expulsion of Poles from the USSR」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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