how 10 million refugees found homes after World War II
- Written by Oleg Beyda, Lecturer in Russian History, The University of Melbourne
A displaced Russian family preparing to return home, August 1945.Signal Corps Archive, United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsA disaster. That was the fitting word for the Europe that emerged immediately after 1945, covered in soot from cities turned to ashes. Life had collapsed.
Victorious but struggling to find their footing on the...





