Sending aid from India to Polish citizens deported to the USSR had been inaugurated in a bold humanitarian mission organized by the Polish consulate in Mumbai (Bombay) and the Polish Red Cross delegation. A convoy of trucks carrying 60 tons of material aid departed from Mumbai on 11 November 1941, and arrived safely in Ashgabat on 30 December, having crossed the mountainous Soviet-Iranian border. In May 1942, another such transport was successfully completed along the same route.
This convoy paved the way from Ashgabat (USSR) to Mashhad (Iran) and, after Moscow had given consent to take children away, the mission also enabled the return transport of trucks to be used for the evacuation of Polish orphans from the USSR.
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