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It is estimated that the number of Poles living in Russia at the end of the first world war totalled about 3 million. They included long-settled inhabitants, i. a. exiles and their families, as well as prisoners and students attending Russian schools of high learning. The majority was composed of wartime refugees who had been evacuated during the first stage of the war. The number of Poles serving...