Polish Campaign - Operations - September 1-14
Source: US ARMY
Posted on 09/18/2006 2:26:03 PM PDT by lizol
67th anniversary of the Soviet invasion on Poland
2006-09-17, 18:42
On September 17th 1939 the Red Army invaded Poland, breaking the anti aggression pact signed with Poland.
The Soviets attacked at 6 am.The Polish ambassador in Moscow was handed a note by the Soviet foreign ministry stating that the Polish government and the Polish state ceased to exist. In the years 1940-1941 over half a million Polish soldiers were taken prisoners and massive deportations of civilians took place.
The French just would not budge from their war plans.
Stalin's decision to deploy the Red Army so far west to protect his newly acquired territory would come back to haunt him in 1941.
I have mixed feelings on Pilsudski, he was so anti-Czarist that he refused to help the Whites against the Bolsheviks. Sikorski was the real hero of the "Miracle on the Vistula", but Pilsudski got the credit.
In to the 80's I still had history professors that denied the soviet invasion of Poland.
I've read about the change , but have never understood why- any ideas?
nice map! good find.
Need to pick the brains of those old guys who fought the USSR head on back in '39. That knowledge will come in handy not if but when the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (aka USSR-2) moves into conquest mode.
Soviets wanted to get all the Baltic states under their control, so they gave the Polish Lublin region to the Germans in exchange for Lithuania.
Ping
The Kennedy/Dodd waitress sandwich... on a global scale.
Tukhachevski deserves a ton of the credit or blame depending on one's perspective.
I see the swastika but where is the hammer and sickle?
LOL. Good analogy.
Good question
I guess they hoped no one would notice.
No doubt.
But it really looks, like the left was very influential among the media at that time already (it was published in September 1939).
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