By the end of the Polish Defensive War, Soviet Union has annexed 52.1% (circa 200,000 km²) with the population over 14,700,000.
Polish schoolchildren as young as 10 or 12 who laughed at Soviet propaganda posters were sent to prisons for at least 10 years. The prisons soon got harshly over crowded with detainees suspected of anti-Soviet activities and the NKVD had to open dozens of ad hoc prisons sites in almost all towns of the region. The arrests led to forced resettlement of large categories of people( kulaks, Polish civil servants, forest workers, university professors or osadniks, for example) to the Gulag labour camps.
According to recent(2009) estimates by IPN, around 150,000 Polish citizens died as a result of the Soviet occupation. The number of deportees was estimated at around 320,000.
Polish schoolchildren as young as 10 or 12 who laughed at Soviet propaganda posters were sent to prisons for at least 10 years. The prisons soon got harshly over crowded with detainees suspected of anti-Soviet activities and the NKVD had to open dozens of ad hoc prisons sites in almost all towns of the region. The arrests led to forced resettlement of large categories of people( kulaks, Polish civil servants, forest workers, university professors or osadniks, for example) to the Gulag labour camps.
According to recent(2009) estimates by IPN, around 150,000 Polish citizens died as a result of the Soviet occupation. The number of deportees was estimated at around 320,000.