Posted on 01/28/2018 12:32:58 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
The Red Army's defeat of Nazi German forces on Polish soil in 1944-1945 remains a thorny issue in Russian-Polish relations.
Many Poles viewed the Red Army as an occupation force, not as liberators, as the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact had carved up Poland between two dictatorships.
Poland updated its "de-communisation" legislation, banning "totalitarian" symbols, which would include Soviet propaganda monuments.
The Russian foreign ministry condemned the new Polish "de-communisation" law as "an outrageous provocation", and warned of unspecified "consequences".
"The USSR paid the highest price to liberate Poland - on that country's soil, in battles with the enemy, more than 600,000 Soviet soldiers and officers died and were buried. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war, who died in Nazi concentration camps, also lie in Polish soil," the ministry said.
The Russian government has warned Poland that it will face sanctions if it removes monuments glorifying the Soviet victory in World War Two.
In 2007, Estonia's removal of a Red Army statue in its capital Tallinn sparked a violent protest by Russian speakers and a massive cyber attack on Estonian official websites. Russian hackers were blamed for that attack.
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Like Confederate monuments, Poland should let them stand to remind Poles of what the Soviets did to them so it doesn’t happen again.
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You should then say your articles: A, An and The.
Russians tend to leave them out. So, you should have said “...as if Russia was campaigning in THE Southwest...”.
I am from Alabama, but also from THE South, and viewed by a Russian, from THE West.
It can be tricky to catch the nuance.
By the way, I’m told the Russians got their name, “Rus” from the Norse, via the word “Ruotsi”, meaning “Oarsmen”. But I bet you know that!
They did a great job liberating Poland from the Polish in 1939.
These commie statues are in prominent places of honor. Soviets put them there to remind Poles that they’re now enslaved. Statues to show foreign dominance. Poles hate these statues and there is no danger of them forgetting that Soviet Union invaded and massacred them. It is Russian as*holes, who want these prominent statues of humiliation stay. Poles hate these. If Poles want to see commie statues they can always go to Seattle and see that f*cking Lenin there.
Hi.
I appreciate your viewpoint.
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