Ch. 14
WYKARCZOWANI ZZA BUGA
"UPROOTED FROM BEYOND RIVER BUG"
by Stanislaw Rymaszewski

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Following the tsarist exiles, Soviets excelled with mass deportations end cruelty

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Transport of convicts sentenced to hard labour.
" A stop" in the wilderness and ....  pa vagonam !   (back to the wagons !)

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At the penal colony destination. The gulag

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Lesoruby (the wood-cutters). Backbreaking toil at the lesozagotovka (timber-felling site)

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My mother - izvoshchik (the carrier)

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"Fun" by the river for us, Polish children

I think it shoud read:
Exploatation of Polish children to do dangerous work by the river, considered as "fun"

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Splavshchiki (raft-men) at a river-borne log jam

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At the barrack. "Feel yourselves at home...." - said the "hospitable" NKVD-man


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