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Between 1945 and 1949, just before the borders between East and West were sealed, some 150,000 Poles from the north of France returned home. Many only spoke French or had never been to Poland, very few had Polish citizenship. These miners left France at the moment of the coal battles, returning in convoys to "reconstruct Poland and take part in the building of socialism". They arrived in a country in ruins, at the worst moment of the Stalinist period, coming to Silesian lands still occupied by distraught German populations. A vast majority of them leaned to the left. The new government entrusted them with the key role in the mining towns of Silesia. These repatriates played a major role in the building of a workers' Poland.

France - 2000 - 51 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation Erwann Briand Image Amar Arhab Son Graciela Barrault Montage Éric Armbruster

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