[the_Watchman]

I visited the Warsaw uprising museum several years ago with a small group of Polish university students. One of them said that his parents and Uncle had fled Warsaw by train heading east when the Germans invaded from the north at Gdansk. As they got off the train at the border, the Russian troops were arriving by train from the east. His family took the next train west back to Warsaw. Clearly the attack on Poland was coordinated.

The Russians also have to explain their invasion of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania at the same time.

When I was in school I used this time in history as a litmus test for history books. The liberal ones would gloss over Stalin’s alliance with Hitler.

[icwhatudo]

"The Russians also have to explain their invasion of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania at the same time."

and Finland too.

They invade Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Finland...but they were not the aggressors?

[dfwgator]

I visited the Warsaw uprising museum several years ago with a small group of Polish university students. One of them said that his parents and Uncle had fled Warsaw by train heading east when the Germans invaded from the north at Gdansk. As they got off the train at the border, the Russian troops were arriving by train from the east. His family took the next train west back to Warsaw. Clearly the attack on Poland was coordinated.

Reminds me of a scene from the movie, "Europa, Europa", where Poles and Jews are crossing the river heading East to escape the Nazis, they encounter Poles coming from the East telling them that the Soviets have invaded. The Gentiles turn around and head back to the Nazis, while the Jews kept going towards the East.