THE SATELLITES: Purges & Deportations

Intelligence reports, refugees' accounts, dispatches by correspondents in neighboring countries, and the Communists' own news services spelled out a grim story of events in Russia's satellites.

Poland. Nine high military staff officers, four of them generals, several of them for mer members of the anti-nazi Polish underground, are on trial, charged with spying for the West. A tenth is in jail. Deportation of "unessential" people from towns to rural areas is causing widespread unrest and desperate efforts to escape (see below). In Warsaw an estimated 40,000 former government workers, doctors, lawyers, and small businessmen have been ordered deported by...

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