On this day in 1939, the USSR invaded Poland from the east. The Soviet invasion came weeks after Germany invaded from the West, and was part of the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which divided eastern Europe into Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence and partitioned Poland between the two countries. Within weeks of the Soviet invasion, Poland was completely defeated.
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Vatniks coming to explain how this was actually”saving Poland” in 3,2,1…
Never forget 1939-1941!
The Soviet Union simply took what belonged to them, Poland should not have attacked Ukraine in the 20s.
Oh, that isn’t important.
Better to remind each day about volyns massacre.
I’m sorry, what? It wasn’t aliens from the planet Sovietia, it was and are Russians.
In case you’re interested… I grew up in the USSR, and this is how we were taught about it. In the school history books it was just a few short paragraphs.
The story went like: ‘In 1939 Poland ceased to exist. The Russian army liberated former Russian lands and saved the people living there.’
As kids, of course, we didn’t question it.
How it was narrated in PRL’s schools?
URA! URA! URA!
Just a small clarification – there was no Poland as a state on that day. There was only the territory that Germany was conquering.
You have mistake in you header, it should be like this:
“On this day in 1939 – USSR invades Poland **FROM UKRAINE**”
Wow, history really knows how to kick you in the feels.
Jokes on you all, the newest tankie trend in explaining USSR imperialism is that it was good because it was better to be conquered by USSR than Germany. And once you point out the terror that was occuring in both, then they switch to “ok, then they deserved it”.
Tankies stating that an imperialist power invading its neighbours and collaborating with the nazis is good actually in 3 2 1
Poor fella Poland. They did nothing wrong neither in Gdansk since ww 1,nor in Slovakia in 1938 to make it coming. Jesus of Europe (not Hyena at all).