In this episode of The Debrief, we are in the newly opened Sybir Memorial Museum in the city of Białystok, which aims to highlight centuries of Russian and Soviet deportations to Siberia.

Host John Beauchamp speaks to the Sybir Museum’s head of education, Dr Piotr Popławski.

The Sybir Memorial Museum in Białystok, which opened on the anniversary of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland on 17 September 1939, is the largest and most important institution dealing with deportations to Russia and later the Soviet Union.

At its centre are not the political forces that led to the deportations but rather the experiences of its victims.

In this week’s review:

• Poland will consider French investment in nuclear plant - official
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• Researchers to create ‘library of historic smells’

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