Przestrzeń śmierci – przestrzeń przetrwania. Obrazy środkowoazjatyckich republik sowieckich w polskiej literaturze zesłańczej i łagrowej

Abstract

The main objective of the article is to reconstruct the everyday life of Poles in exile, deported during the Second World War to the Soviet Muslim republics in Central Asia. Polish deportees were sent to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Most memoirs and fictional texts are dedicated to Poles in Kazakhstan, and only some of them refer to the everyday life in Uzbekista; there are, in fact, no works on the life in exile in Kyrgyzstan. In all the texts we find images of everyday life in exile and reports on relationships, often contradictory, between Poles and Asians. The spectrum of Polish attitudes ranged from hatred to friendship and compassion. What united Poles and Asians was the belief in one God and the anti-communist stance.