Some 13.5 million Polish citizens who fell under the military occupation were made Manufacturing into new Soviet subjects following show elections Change_of_leadership conducted Action by the NKVD secret police in the atmosphere of terror , the results of which were used Using to legitimize the use Using of force .

The Soviet NKVD sent Sending hundreds of thousands of people from eastern Poland to Siberia and other remote parts of the Soviet Union in four major waves of deportation between 1939 and 1941 .

Operation West was conducted Action in West Ukraine by the Soviet NKVD and targeted Aiming the families of suspected UPA members .

Of the 19,000 adult males deported Removing by the NKVD deportees , most were sent Sending to coal mines and stone quarries in the north .

None of the people deported by the NKVD received Receiving any farms or empty homes to live in .