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Stalin's Invasion of Poland
Between 300,000 and 1 million Poles were deported to slave labor camps in the Soviet Union. The Kolima system is where the great Russian writer Varlam Shalamov spent many years. It was also the temporary residence of a Romanian writer named Michael Solomon who wrote about his experiences there. One could see endless columns of prisoners marching in one direction or another like armies on a battlefield. A huge detachment of security officers, soldiers, and signal corpsmen with field telephones and motorcycles kept in touch with headquarters.