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    Default Polish communities in Eastern Europe

    Ethnic Poles outside of the borders of present-day Poland:

    1. Before WW2:

    South Kresy* - 2,249,703 Poles**** (1931 Polish census)
    North Kresy** - 1,663,888 Poles*** (1931 Polish census)
    Soviet Belarus - 97,498 Poles (1926 Soviet census)
    Soviet Ukraine - 476,435 Poles (1926 Soviet census)
    Lithuania - 202,026 Poles (1923 votes for Polish Party)
    Latvia - 59,374 Poles (1930 Latvian census)
    Estonia - 1,608 Poles (1934 Estonian census)
    Soviet Russia - 197,827 Poles (1926 Soviet census)
    Czech Silesia - 200,000 Poles (1939 Polish data)

    *Today Western Ukraine, before WW2 this area was part of Poland.
    **Today Western Belarus & South Lithuania, in Poland before WW2.

    ***This 1,663,888 included, by religion: 1,358,029 Roman Catholic Poles, 281,331 Orthodox & Greek Catholic Poles, 9,011 Jewish Poles, 15,517 other Poles. Non-Polish Roman Catholics were 154,449. The number of Orthodox and Greek Catholic Poles could be artificially inflated (same in South Kresy).

    ****Of whom 1,765,765 Roman Catholic Poles (data from Piotr Eberhardt):



    See also: https://konsnard.wordpress.com/2011/...icach-ukrainy/

    Total: ca. 5.1 million (or 4.4 million if counting only Roman Catholic Poles)

    2. After WW2:

    Belarus - 538,881 Poles (1959 Soviet census)
    Ukraine - 363,297 Poles (1959 Soviet census)
    Lithuania - 230,107 Poles (1959 Soviet census)
    Latvia - 59,774 Poles (1959 Soviet census)
    Estonia - 2,256 Poles (1959 Soviet census)
    Rest of the USSR - 185,967 (1959 census)
    Czechoslovakia - 66,540 Poles (1961 census)

    Total: ca. 1.5 million (according to unofficial estimates, more stayed there)
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    Here is a map of the areas in question:

    2 = South Kresy (now Western Ukraine)
    1a = North Kresy (now Western Belarus)
    1b = North Kresy (now South Lithuania)
    1.2 = Soviet Belarus (now East Belarus)
    2.2 = Soviet Ukraine (Central-East Ukraine)
    1.3 = pre-WW2 Lithuania + Memelland
    1.4 = Latvia as well as Estonia
    3 = Soviet Russia (rest of the USSR)



    Czech Silesia (areas west of Olza River):
    https://polona.pl/item/wojewodztwo-s...#info:metadata

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    Ethnic structure of some Polish Kresy cities before WW2 and today:



    ^^^
    Lvov was the 3rd largest city of Poland in 1931, after Warsaw & Łódź:

    https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasta...eczypospolitej



    Polish garrison of Lwów, under Gen. Władysław Langner, surrendered to the Soviet Red Army on 22.09.1939 afternoon:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%8...5%82aw_Langner

    The city was defended against Germans (since 12.09.39) & later against the Soviets with Germans (since 18/19.09.39):



    See also this thread:

    https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...of-Poland-1939

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    1938 film with English subtitles about the Jewish community of Lwów:

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    About 15% of citizens of Poland today (ca. 6 million people) declare full or partial Eastern ancestry.

    Distribution in modern Poland (by region) of Poles with ancestry from former Polish Eastern Lands:



    Sources: a 2012 survey by CBOS, 1950 census and Leszek Kosiński's publications from the 1960s.

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    Many Ukrainians and Belarusians have partially Polish ancestry from those communities.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peterski View Post
    Many Ukrainians and Belarusians have partially Polish ancestry from those communities.
    and Karta Polaka

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