D.. the Russian secret police. canvassed the communities to get out the vote. This they. did far more persuasively than the most enthusiastic party workers in an American election. Those who had failed to vote were threatened with deportation or other reprisals. But just to make certain of the results. the cautious Russians themselves appointed the tellers who counted the votes. Neither the Russians nor the Poles were very much surprised when the popular assemblies elected under these circumstances voted at once and unanimouslyby a show of handsfor the incorporation of western Byelorussia and western Ukraine into the Soviet Union.
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