The Russians liberated, then raped and pillaged, then subjugated Poland.
“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”
That is a giant half truth. The Soviets kicked out the Germans so THEY, the Soviets, could OCCUPY Poland and insure their puppets would get installed to run things there.
F_ck you, we can do what we want in our own country...
Sincerely, Poland...
The Russians stood by while the Nazis destroyed Warsaw. Russians were conquerors, not liberators.
My neighbor was a Lithuanian-born Pole who was still serving in the Polish Army when then the war started; he ended up being captured by the Germans and imprisoned for the duration. Then when the Russians invaded instead of being liberated he was shipped into Russia and imprisoned there. His wife, a brilliant woman who spoke 7 languages fluently, was imprisoned somewhere else. They each believed the other was dead.
Needless to say he hates communists, especially Russian and American ones. Russians for what they did to Poland, and ti Lithuania, and American ones for what they want to do to his beloved adopted country, America.
Fixed it.
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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