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License for release - Jan Plovajko

Plovajko's license for release from Gulag. Plovajko and many others were released as a result of an amnesty of Czechoslovakian citizens from 19 November 1942. License allows Plovajko to travel to Buzuluk where the Czechoslovakian units were being formed. (ÚSTR Archive)

Czechoslovak citizens and the Gulag

Information about Czechs and Czechoslovak citizens repressed in USSR

Jan Plovajko

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. Arrested entering the USSR in October 1940. Sentenced to three years in the Gulag in Norilsk. In 1943 released into...

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License for release - Jan Plovajko

Czechoslovak citizens and the Gulag

Jan Plovajko

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