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The number of Poles in Ukraine gradually increased over the centuries, but after World War II it drastically decreased as a result of Soviet mass deportation of the Poles in Ukraine to Siberia and other eastern regions of the USSR as well as a campaign of ethnic cleansing, carried out in the early 1940s by Ukrainian nationalists in western part of the country ( see: Massacres of Poles in Volhynia ).
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The unescorted, but armed, ship was carrying 1, 800 Italian POWs guarded by 103 Free Poles, 268 British military personnel from the Desert War in Egypt, and a number of civilians.
However, the plans resulted in an outcry from the German minority population of Opolskie, who feared that should their region be abolished, they would lose all hope of regional representation ( in the proposed Silesian Region, they would have formed a very small minority amongst a great number of ethnic Poles ).
# Many Poles living in emigrant communities ( for example in the USA ), whose families left Poland just after World War II, retain a number of minor features of Polish vocabulary as spoken in the first half of the 20th century that now sound archaic, however, to contemporary visitors from Poland.
Immigration to Panama are represented by ethnic groups in the 19th and 20th centuries: British and Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Russians or Ukrainians ( a large number are Jews ), U. S. Americans and West Indies / Caribbean ( esp.
The number of Poles as a percentage of the total population fell to just 0. 5 % after the reconstitution of Poland in 1918, when many returned home.
In early 1940, a large number of Poles were transferred to the Mauthausen-Gusen complex.
The number of Jews and Poles in the city were roughly equal, about five thousand each.
The Polish-speaking population concentrated in the south of the province ( Masuria and Warmia ) and all German geographic atlases at the start of 20th century showed the southern part of East Prussia as Polish with the number of Poles estimated at the time to be 300, 000.
During industrialization, many Germans from the countryside moved to large industrial cities and large number of Poles came to German cities to work as well.
The Poles objected on the grounds that their greater number, earlier arrival and greater financial contribution entitled them to preference.
Between 430, 000 and 500, 000 Jews are believed to have been killed by German Nazis at Bełżec, along with an unknown number of Poles and Roma ; only one or two Jews are known to have survived Bełżec and the war: Rudolf Reder and Chaim Hirszman.
It is also a center of Polish culture, with the considerable number of Poles living in Belarus, residing in the city and its surroundings.
* 1943: Polish resistance group Zagra-Lin in response to German atrocities against Poles successfully carries out a series of bomb attacks against capital of Nazi Germany, eliminating and wounding a number of citizens of Nazi state.
There is also a Polish minority in Russia which includes indigenous 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.
The Polish community in Norway has increased substantially and has grown to a total number of 120, 000, making Poles the largest immigrant group in Norway.
After the Germans were beaten and started to retreat towards the village, the Poles charged and took the village along with a large number of German prisoners.
The territories east of this line were incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR and Ukrainian SSR after staged referendums and hundreds of thousands of Poles and a lesser number of Jews were deported eastwards into the Soviet Union.
It was subsequently German policy that a small number of ( non-Jewish ) Poles, like other Slavic peoples, were to be reduced to the status of serfs, while the rest would be deported or otherwise eliminated and eventually replaced by German colonists of the " master race.
Various plans regarding the future of the original population were drawn, with one calling for deportation of about 20 million Poles to Western Siberia, and Germanisation of 4 to 5 million ; although deportation in reality meant many Poles were to be put to death, a small number would be " re-Germanized ," and young Poles of desirable qualities would be kidnapped and raised in Germany.
In all German geographical atlases published at the beginning of the 20th century, the southern part of East Prussia was marked as an ethnically Polish area with a number of Poles estimated at 300, 000.
According to differing research " the number of Poles who perished at the hands of the Germans for aiding Jews " was as high as fifty thousand.
Today the number of Jews, Germans and Poles is statistically insignificant, while the number of Romanians has decreased substantially.
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... At least 2, 505 people were sentenced for cannibalism in the years 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine, though the actual number of cases was certainly much greater.
While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.
Russia engaged in a number of bilateral disputes about gas supplies with Belarus and Ukraine which endangered gas supplies to Europe.
The collectivization policies resulted in economic disaster with severe fluctuations in grain harvests, catastrophic losses in the number of livestock, a substantial drop in the food consumption of the country's citizens, and the allegedly intentional Holodomor famine in the Ukraine.
In preparation for the Euro 2012 football championships being jointly hosted by Poland and Ukraine, a number of airports around the country will be renovated and redeveloped.
Countries that are home to a significant number of speakers of Uralic languages include Austria, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Ukraine.
A number of independent unions, which emerged during 1992, among them the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine, have formed the Consultative Council of Free Labor Unions.
The advantageous geographical position of Ukraine allows for the location of a number of International Transport Corridors on its territory, in particular:
* Oxana Malaya ( born 1983 ), a feral child found in Ukraine in 1991, who had spent most of her childhood life in the company of dogs, picking-up a number of dog-like habits.
This point of view was also confirmed by Yuri Shevelov's phonological studies and, although it is gaining a number of supporters among Ukrainian academics, it is not seriously regarded outside Ukraine.
The modern Ukrainian alphabet is the result of a number of proposed alphabetic reforms from the 19th and early 20th centuries, in Ukraine under the Russian Empire, in Austrian Galicia, and later in Soviet Ukraine.
The universities in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania published a number of books and monographs on Socionics, or on psychology, pedagogy and management, which socionics and its methods are devoted to specific topics.
Currently, Socionics is a topic of discussion and a way of thinking for a large number of people in post-Soviet states, especially in Russia, Ukraine and the Baltics.
In the second half of the 1990s, Telenor became involved in mobile operations in a number of countries: Russia ( 1994 ), Bangladesh, Greece, Ireland, Germany and Austria ( 1997 ), Ukraine ( 1998 ), Malaysia ( 1999 ), Denmark and Thailand ( 2000 ), Hungary ( 2002 ), Montenegro ( 2004 ), Pakistan ( 2004 ), Slovakia, Czech Republic, Serbia ( 2006 ).
Einsatzgruppe C carried out the Babi Yar massacre and a number of other mass atrocities in Ukraine during the summer and autumn of 1941.
In Russia and Ukraine, the national rail services operate a large number of night trains with private compartments containing seats convertible into sleeping berths.
The militant leader told the hostages that the attackers ( who identified themselves as a suicide squad from " the 29th Division ") had no grudge against foreign nationals ( about 75 in number from 14 countries, including Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the United States ) and promised to release anyone who showed a foreign passport.
It is not possible to estimate accurately the number of fluent speakers of Rusyn ; however, their number is estimated at almost a million, primarily living in Ukraine and Slovakia.
Further, Hnatyshyn undertook a number of state visits, including one to Ukraine, before his time serving at Her Majesty's pleasure ended on February 6, 1995.
While a number of T-80 MBTs were inherited by Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russia had possession of the majority of the tanks.
The photographic capabilities of the station were, therefore, extensive, and the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture had planted a number of specifically selected crops at test sites at Salsky in the Ukraine and Voronezh near Lake Baikal to examine the capabilities of the cameras.
In the third category we have a number of prominent individuals who are often not part of the mainstream Ukrainian culture but who have made a significant impact on music in Ukraine, while living outside of its borders.
Ukraine and its diaspora have also produced a great number of fine avant-garde composers with widely varying degrees of affinity with the folk idioms, such as
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