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The country’s small Russian community can still pay homage to its own heroes undisturbed. On 9 May, its members gathered at the Soviet military cemetery in Warsaw, where an estimated 22,000 Red Army soldiers lie buried...Sergei Andreev, Russia’s ambassador to Poland, looked on. Andreev was defiant. “Poland and the Polish nation exist today on this land thanks to the Red Army’s victory in that war, at the cost of the lives of those 600,000 soldiers and officers who died here,” ..

Whoooo boy, where to begin....

First of all Mr. Andreev....YOU STARTED THE WAR, by agreeing to carve up Poland with Hitler. No Non-Agression Pact, Hitler doesn't invade Poland. You knew signing that Pact meant that you and Germany would carve up Poland.

Shall we also talk about Katyń, and killing off Polish officers, who just might have been put to use to liberate their country, thus sparing the lives of more of your Red Army Comrades. But let's not kid ourselves, Stalin wasn't concerned at all about the losing lives of his own soldiers, all that mattered was dominance of Poland.

Then of course, your Red Army troops urging the AK to rise up in Warsaw, only to watch them get butchered, while your Precious Red Army sat and did nothing on the other side of the Vistula.

“Poland and the Polish nation exist today on this land thanks to the Red Army’s victory in that war, at the cost of the lives of those 600,000 soldiers and officers who died here,” ..

Ah yes, the same Red Army that tried to wipe out Poland in 1920 and annex it to the Soviet Union.

One of the biggest bits of bs during the Cold War was the notion of the Red Army storming out of the old Soviet Union through Poland and into East Germany with their Warsaw Pact allies for whatever reason to smash the evil Western capitalists and all that when the reality was the Russians were scared to death of that ever being the case. They knew, certainly Russian officers knew the moment their troops had the chance they would have murdered them and went running for the border. Heck, the average Russian soldier was never taught to read a map. And as far their ‘’allies’’? If their own troops didn’t kill them the Poles weren’t going to fight for Ivan. They’ve have killed Russians in a heartbeat. East Germans would have too. And then the Poles and Germans would have gone at it. I don’t think most Americans understand the level of animosity the peoples of Eastern Europe have toward each other. I’m sure it has lessened over time since the collapse of The Soviet Union but memory is a persistent thing and revenge often bides it’s time. War slumbers , but always keeps one eye open.