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Poles were deported to Siberia in large numbers by the Russian Empire and then by USSR.
Many survivors of deportation ("Sybiraks") belong to the Sybirak Association - ow which anthem was written in 1990s by Marian Jonkajtys.
To this day Polish communities - descendants of the victims of persecution - exist scattered through Siberia and Kazakhstan.