Here we go - another communist soldier that had nothing to do with the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and Poles.
"Hitler attacked USSR (not the other way around)."
Funny, but most people seem to think that WWII started when the Nazis and Russians invaded Poland. But I am sure your father, etc had nothing to do with inflicting any harm on the millions Ukrainians and Poles that resisted the Kremlin thugs.
Yes, it is always that way. I guess these millions died from falling on pointed sticks.
How convenient that you gloss over this. How convenient that you forget that your beloved Communist Army enforced a plague of genocide that wiped out 100 million in the last century.
It is WE that are through with this nonsense.
Listen, for the last time for a special case like you:
My grandpa did not invade Poland in 1939. He was 15 yrs old than. He was drafted in 1942, and wounded in 1943 when USSR fought a DEFENSIVE war against Nazi Germany. His own dad nearly died in Stalin prison during great purges of 1937-1938, but my great grandma was able to get him released from NKVD clutches because she was aquainted with someone who knew Kruschev. Great grandpa was lucky to get out of NKVD clutches alive, although he was lying on his stomach for many months--his back was bruised with torture. NKVD demanded that he signed a papers of being a "spy" for a number of foreign intelligence services.
Also My grandpa's uncle was a prisoner of GULAG. That's a typical story of millions and millions of those living under Soviet Regime.
Also, lots of Ukrainians who served (and died) in the Soviet Army were also survivors of the Ukrainian Holodomor of 1932-1933. For millions of Ukrainians, Russians, etc it was a tragic choice to fight against one exterminator while defending another exterminator, but that was a tragic historical circumstance.
What they were supposed to do--let Hitler "liberate" Ukraine and Russia from Bolsheviks and then let him "liberate" Ukraine from Ukrainians and Russia from Russians ? Stalin and Hitler are the world biggest butchers, but circumstances forced tens of millions under Stalin thumb to take up arms against Hitler MEANING THAT THEY ALSO ENDED UP FIGHTING FOR STALIN.
The democracies like US and UK were forced to ally with one monster Stalin to fight another monster Hitler. That was a TRAGIC HISTORICAL NECESSITY.
Did you get it--FINALLY ?