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>>Желающие могли уехать в Польшу, кто-то и остался, например, МЕЧИСЛАВ СТАХЕВИЧ (MIECZYSLAW STACHIEWICZ), который, отлетав свой тур оф дьюти, выучился в Англии на архитектора и остался там жить и работать.
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> https://warsstories.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/the-polish-pilot_rus.pdf
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Далеко не все уехали в доминионы. Многие остались:

https://www.fmreview.org/resettlement/blaszczyk

From March 1948, the Home Secretary announced that applications for British citizenship would be accepted from Polish ex-servicemen and Poles were granted the right to become naturalised British citizens. In the end, the Poles emerged as dedicated contributors to the rebuilt British economy. Those who obtained secondary or higher education found profitable and sometimes prestigious posts in the British labour market and made successful professional careers. Their different culture and tradition, along with the shared traumatic wartime experience, slowly came to be seen as assets contributing to community life. The Committee’s aim of adapting Polish exiles to a new life was slowly being achieved. As one local newspaper article of the time said, “Their assets and pastimes may differ, but that very difference is an asset to the joint community of the town.