After they were forced to switch sides. Before, they did their own share of conquest and genocide in eastern Europe [1,2,..], and the Allies generously let them keep those countries after the war. But all is forgiven and forgotten if one ends up on the Right Side of History.
Here it comes, demonizing Russians at the price of rewriting history.
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was similar to pacts that every other European country had - including Poland[1]. Except that Poland had it since 1934 and USSR only since 1939. Stalin made it after realizing that Britain and France were playing him from April to August 1939 [2].
Polish march of the Red Army, liberating march of The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in soviet historiography, also Soviet invasion of Poland in modern historiography.
For some reason some people over here are very eager to 'prove' some weird fantasies.
The polish invasion is there. Not awful lot about it, just that Hitler and Stalin desided this is how it shall be and that sovieat army entered Poland on 17th.
In Sep 1939, after their pact, both Germany and USSR invaded Poland. One early USSR action (denied by the USSR until 1990) was
"a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD.... which was approved by the Soviet Politburo led by Stalin"
The Nazis pointed it out in 1943, the USSR blamed it on the Nazis. The (non-Russian) Allies played down the fact at the time. (Churchill is quoted as writing 'we should none of us ever speak a word about it.')
It seems hard to believe that with modern tech everywhere, such an act could happen again. Not so hard to believe that the same is true of a cover-up.
Eh. In those parts of europe Soviets/Russians was the evil. First, Soviets/Russians came in 1939. Atrocities started (Katyn, Rainiai, mass deportations to Gulag, pick your favourite). Then Nazis came as a new management and stopped those atrocities just to start their own. Few years later, Soviets rolled back in to resume what they started few years ago.
And then there's another can of worms of how Poland acted to it's neighbours in 1920.
Last time I checked, it was common knowledge that Hitler invaded Poland because we wouldn't agree to an ex-territorial corridor to Danzig. Of course that's simplifying a lot, but still, I don't see how a revolution in Russia factors into this. Auschwitz is also on Lenin? The mass grave of victims of German soldiers near my parents' house too?
Not to mention Russia basically re-invading Poland as the Nazis were defeated and then establishing communism there. They also famously paused their army across the river while the Nazis razed Warsaw to the ground.
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