By the end of the Polish Defensive War, the Soviet Union took over 52.1% of the territory of Poland (circa 200,000 km2) with over 13,700,000 citizens. In total, the Soviets killed tens of thousands of Polish prisoners of war.
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Mr. RUSSELL WORKING,
Journalist
I suppose that you did not have enough time to learn these facts about the Soviet “liberation” of Poland… Here a few facts about how the Soviet communist regime “liberated” Poland from about 2 million of Polish citizens—by mass executions of Poles, and in the Soviet Gulags.
Before the WWII Stalin ordered the Great Terror in Soviet Russia. During the “Polish Operation” that began in August 1937—111,091 Poles accused of espionage for Poland were shot.
Until World War II, Stalin’s regime was by far the more murderous of the two. Nazi Germany began to kill on the Soviet scale only after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in the summer of 1939 and the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland that September.
On September 17, 1939 the Soviet Union started its invasion of Poland. By the end of the Polish Defensive War, the Soviet Union took over 52.1% of the territory of Poland (circa 200,000 km2) with over 13,700,000 citizens. In total, the Soviets killed tens of thousands of Polish prisoners of war. Many of them, like General Józef Olszyna-Wilczynski, captured, interrogated and shot on 22 September, were executed already during the 1939 campaign. On 24 September, the Soviets killed forty-two staff and patients of a Polish military hospital in the village of Grabowiec, near Zamosc. There were many more of such Soviet cruelties and atrocities.
About 500,000 Poles were arrested and imprisoned by the Soviet communists before June 1941, including civic officials, military personnel and other “enemies of the people”—like the clergy and the Polish educators: about one in ten of all adult males.
About 200,000 Polish civilians were killed between 1939 and 1941, with each regime responsible for about half of those deaths. This figure includes about 50,000 Polish citizens shot by German security police and soldiers in the fall of 1939, the 21,892 Polish citizens shot by the Soviet NKVD in the Katyn massacres of spring 1940, and the 9,817 Polish citizens shot in June 1941 in a hasty NKVD operation after Hitler betrayed Stalin and Germany attacked the USSR.
In 1940 and the first half of 1941, the Soviets deported a total of more than 1,200,000 Poles in four waves of mass deportations. The first major operation took place on February 10, 1940, with more than 220,000 people sent in cattle trains to northern European Russia. The second wave of 13 April 1940, consisted of 320,000 people sent primarily to Kazakhstan. The third wave of June–July 1940 totaled more than 240,000. The fourth and final wave occurred in June 1941, deporting 300,000. Upon resumption of Polish-Soviet diplomatic relations in 1941, it was determined (based on Soviet information) that more than 760,000 deportees had died – a large part of those dead being children, who had comprised about a third of the deportees.
The Germans shot more than a hundred thousand civilians during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944—after the Soviets urged the locals to rise up and then declined to help them.
The Stalin’s Communists installed as “Polish” government in Poland by the Soviet murderers from NKVD after the WW II, continued the mass killing of Polish patriots!
The Soviet Union had much influence over internal affairs and foreign affairs, and Red Army forces were stationed in Poland (1945 – 500,000; until 1955 – 120,000 to 150,000, until 1989 – 40,000). Therefore the People’s Republic of Poland has been described as a satellite state of the Soviet Union.
And you called it as “liberation”!
Shame on you!
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Data on Soviet war crimes and atrocities from:
1. Timothy Snyder “Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Killed More?”
2. Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946)
Mr. Russell Working already answered my comments:
rworking
Mr. Working pisze, że nigdzie nie użył słowa "wyzwolenie" (liberation)… Oraz, że Polacy okropnie cierpeli w czasie władzy Sowietów. A także, iż zgadza się ze wszystkim co napisłem…