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late January 1946

Poland in the East. Colonel Stanislav Pluto’s Polish 34th Infantry Regiment surrounds the village of Zawadka Morochowska, entirely ethnically Ukrainian. They then carry out a massacre, killing at least 56 people, and order the survivors to flee to Ukraine. The village is almost wiped off the map. Zawadka Morochowska is just one case among thousands across Eastern Europe, where the end of the war is also seen as an opportunity to settle old grievances.