Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Chapel and https://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst694.html

My first thought was "Why do the refugees need to be shiny?"

1.2 that's beautiful
"Chiocchetti died in his home village of Moena but a Requiem Mass was held for him in his chapel on Orkney."

I've been randomly reading South American history on the internet late at night and while I shouldn't be surprised to not know things I haven't yet learned, holy shit did I not know a lot of complicated history.

Like when Paraguay made it mandatory for Europeans to race mix. Or anything at all about the Guyanas other than Jonestown.

There were thousands of Polish refugees in India during the war and for some time afterward. They arrived via Central Asia and Iran.

The Uganda story is fascinating, and looking through the several layers of narration, you can just see that young Barbara had a very Polish childhood, spread across improbable countries.

5 there was a large community of Polish refugees in Iran that stayed there during and after the war too