Polish minority in Russia
- Polish minority in Russia
There are currently 173,000 Polish nationals living in The Russian federation. [http://www.perepis2002.ru/content.html?id=11&docid=10715289081463] This includes autochthonous Poles as well as those forcibly deported during and after World War II; the total number of Poles in what was the former Soviet Union is estimated at up to 3 million. [http://books.google.com/books?id=eR5oYvO1uFgC&pg=PA119&dq=3+million+ethnic+Poles+in+the+former+Soviet+Union&sig=Kdm4ndGC7XbDsOS8qiXjPlxC5k8]
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*Polish minority in the Soviet Union
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