[mrmeyer]

USSR killed 150-500k during and after the war and occupation of Poland. Sovietization was no picnic

[pierrem15]

From September 1939 to June 1941 the soviets deported about 1.2 million Poles to Kazakhstan, of whom approximately 600,000 died during transport or shortly thereafter.

It should be pointed out that the deportations to Siberia started already under the Tsars after the partitions.

The Poles I know are bitter about German atrocities, but respect the Germans for their cultural, scientific and economic achievements. For the Russians they have nothing but unbridled contempt.