[wetphoenix]

~You definitely should read about Yalta, Tehran and Potsdam. ~

Yes, I know all of the above. It doesn’t hurt my point at all, actually just opposite.
It means that Soviet activity in Europe was according to treaties, in which US and Britain were participants.
It actually makes their actions more legitimate than of the Clinton’s and Obummer’s regimes regarding Yugoslavia and Middle East.

~Yeah, they were so utterly leftist that Soviets had to keep hundreds thousands of their soldiers in Poland all that time...~

So what? United States has troops in many countries and it is not to suppress locals. Would you argue presence of local commies in Poland? You literally make no sense this way.
And you probably forgot that it was Polish 2nd Army manned by nearly 30 thousand Polish men which spearheaded the Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Oh, wait...I said Warsaw Pact. What country has a capital named like that?

[gadrael]

It means that Soviet activity in Europe was according to treaties, in which US and Britain were participants.

It only means that countries like Poland had nothing to say about their own future after a war.

So what? United States has troops in many countries and it is not to suppress locals. Would you argue presence of local commies in Poland? You literally make no sense this way.

Tens of thousands of polish officers were murdered by Soviets, millions of poles died during war, another tens of thousands couldn't return after fighting on west front. There weren't much people left in poland who could oppose red army and their puppets. But despite of all that, many Poles were fighting against commies many years after the war. It were not so easy to oppose communism, when you could be imprisoned or killed without any sentence by commies backed by hundreds thousands of soviet guns, and yet poles managed to destroy this system.

If anyone is interested in objective look at this (well.. as objective as Englishman can be) , I really recommend "God's Playground" by Norman Davies, there is very interesting part about second war and communism in Poland.