Reply To: Poland 1939 – Preparing for 80th Anniversary of World War II

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Thanks this that @avernos. I have seen a few like that.

The strongest argument I have seen is an elaboration of this one.  To prevent further suffering of the Polish people forced their hand to act.  They did not require permission of the Polish government as act the time the government was not functioning and as such Poland did not exist as a country.

OK that was an interesting view point of the facts at the time of the Russian intervention/ invasion.  But this argument totally falls over when you look at the secret inclusions of their peace  treaty with Germany dividing up Poland between them months before the German invasion.  This makes it premeditated and a stab in the invasion of a hapless country brought to is knees from the German invasion.

Under communist control the poor Poles could not even mention the Russian invasion without three risk of being arrested as a dissident. Further any returning veteran is arrested under the pretext of being a western spy or dissident.

This its where my heart really reaches out to the Polish people.  They were never allowed to publicly grieve for the love ones lost or build a memorial for them,  being told it never happened and they are confusing their loss with the German invasion.  Having never lived under such conditions I can’t really know what it is like being told how to think and what to think about something you know to be false.

I don’t hold anything against the people or the government of the ex Soviet Union of today but I wish that they would at least admit to what Stalin did back then.  In my dreams I wish they would start a friendship society and help pay for a memorial for the veterans.  It would go a long way towards healing the wound.