My personal favorite of those headlines is ‘Russians Keeping Pledge to Hitler’. Kudos to the editor. No nonsense, no euphemisms, no beating around the bush, no tip toeing around the aggressors’ feelings – just straight to the point.
We need this approach badly in today’s media instead of the ‘Putin’s war’ dangerous idiocy.
And here’s how the landgrab of Eastern Poland was justified
“re”unifying Eastern and “Western Ukraine” (what the Bolsheviks called the part of Poland they annexed) complete with “referendums” that proceeded ethnic cleansing.
Very little has changed.
After the Sovjet Union occupied Poland, it started a brief but intense war against Finland and conquered sizable parts of Finnish territory. Despite the major losses in the war against Finland, the Sovjet Union continued with the occupation of the Baltic states and the formerly Romanian territories of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina in June 1941.
In Russia, they try to erase this period of history, and therefore, according to the Russians, the Second World War started on 22 June 1941 when the Wehrmacht attacked the USSR.
The brutality of the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland, including massacres and widespread rapes, is a taboo subject in Russia nowadays under legislation adopted in May 2014 at Putin’s behest. The legislation allows criminal charges, punishable by up to five years of prison as well as large fines, to be brought against anyone in Russia who “spreads information on military and memorial commemorative dates related to Russia’s defense that is clearly disrespectful of society” or who “spreads intentionally false information about the Soviet Union’s activities during World War II.” Russian scholars who wish to investigate and write about sensitive topics, such as the collaboration of Russians with the Nazi occupiers or the atrocities committed by Soviet troops, are deterred from doing so lest they be sent to prison. Prosecutions and convictions have indeed occurred.
A historical fact the russians don’t like others knowing about to this day…
Oh fuck off, for a fraction of second I thought this is something from today and that I need to pack my bags ASAP.
“Russia enters war, it’ll shock you on whose side they’re fighting!”
They kept the annexed territories after the war an expelled roughly 1.1 million Poles who had been living there for centuries.
“Fierce battle rages in the west”?
Russia using the same „we have to protect Russians in another country“ excuse as today is chilling
This is fake.
Stalin would’ve never done that
Capitalist propaganda
“Five provinces occupied by white Russians” – they misunderstood the word Belarusians here.
THose regimes were pretty much the same, like comparing coke to pepsi
The OG Horseshoe Theory application here…..
What’s actually wild is that the Soviets claimed they invaded Poland to protect Ukrainians in eastern Poland. There was also no formal declaration of war. Sounds oddly familiar…
Holy molly, paddings was luxury those days.
We punished the Nazis, but not the Ruzzians, so here we are today dealing with the consequences!
and commies will pretend that liberals side with nazis 😭😂
I was banned from r/russia bc of this
My boyfriend
Horrible wordplay for Polish speakers, for whom “Extra!” means something like “Awesome!” or “Amazing!”
>*(…) it is the duty of Russia “to extend the hand of brotherly assistance to white Russian and Ukrainian peoples,” Premier and Former Commissar V.M. Molotov told the Russian people by radio. (…)*
>
>*”The soviet government wishes to bring the Polish peoples out of the misery into which they have been plunged by their unsuccessful leaders,” Molotov said.*
Mmm.
Kremlin: No! We were denazifying Poland with actual Nazis! Da! It was special anti-Poli… err… anti-fascist operation!
Never forget. Too many people are not aware of this
And many people still idealise the Soviet Union when, in my opinion, they did the most damage during and after WW2.
They’ve nazificated poland
A Russian women just told me in YouTube comments that Poland, the “Hyena of Europe” brought the war on itself. And Germany attacked Poland when they were allies since Poland took a piece of Czechoslovakia. The reason being that Poland was too greedy.
This narrative is alive and well in Russia.
Poland got absolutely screwed over at the conclusion of WWII.
I mean I’m not sure what else the Western Allies could have done (Look up Churchill’s “Operation Unthinkable” to see how insanely dangerous liberating Poland would have been) but there’s a bitter irony in the fact that the war started because Germany invaded Poland, but in the end Poland was just handed over to a different totalitarian empire.
Nazis and their Russian allies.
So you are telling me Russians supported Nazis?
No, no. The ‘great patriotic war’ didn’t start until ’41. You can ask any Russian and they’ll confirm! /s
Someone, anyone, please post this on r/UkraineRussiaReport
I’d love to see the Russian trolls squirm over reality.
Nooooo you don’t understand poor soviet union was forced and communism wasn’t that bad 🙁
I always wonder how the WWII would have played out if the Allies hadn’t supported the Russians with billions of dollars in aid, weaponry, intelligence etc. when they got back-stabbed by the Nazis. Russia was part of the Axis powers and opportunistically tried to gain a foothold in Europe proper by conquering the Baltics, Poland, parts of Finland.
Russia two-times its partners and Allies from WWI and sides with Germany. Then Germany back-stabs Russia.
And the Allies just forget Russia’s betrayal and give it crucial help to survive and fight off the German attack.
Only to then renew enmities with Russia and start the Cold War against her when the Nazis were defeated.
Some crazy shit!
That was a bad year for the country (not like any other after 1792 was good)
Damn you’re crazy, you’re brainwashing each other here, the anti-Russian propaganda is working well.
Huh. I thought it was Poland’s fault. I could’ve sworn I saw an interview about this recently.
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Source: [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-times-soviet-union-invades-p/33073031/](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-times-soviet-union-invades-p/33073031/)
My personal favorite of those headlines is ‘Russians Keeping Pledge to Hitler’. Kudos to the editor. No nonsense, no euphemisms, no beating around the bush, no tip toeing around the aggressors’ feelings – just straight to the point.
We need this approach badly in today’s media instead of the ‘Putin’s war’ dangerous idiocy.
And here’s how the landgrab of Eastern Poland was justified
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Sssr_polsha_1939_plakat.jpeg
“re”unifying Eastern and “Western Ukraine” (what the Bolsheviks called the part of Poland they annexed) complete with “referendums” that proceeded ethnic cleansing.
Very little has changed.
After the Sovjet Union occupied Poland, it started a brief but intense war against Finland and conquered sizable parts of Finnish territory. Despite the major losses in the war against Finland, the Sovjet Union continued with the occupation of the Baltic states and the formerly Romanian territories of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina in June 1941.
In Russia, they try to erase this period of history, and therefore, according to the Russians, the Second World War started on 22 June 1941 when the Wehrmacht attacked the USSR.
The brutality of the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland, including massacres and widespread rapes, is a taboo subject in Russia nowadays under legislation adopted in May 2014 at Putin’s behest. The legislation allows criminal charges, punishable by up to five years of prison as well as large fines, to be brought against anyone in Russia who “spreads information on military and memorial commemorative dates related to Russia’s defense that is clearly disrespectful of society” or who “spreads intentionally false information about the Soviet Union’s activities during World War II.” Russian scholars who wish to investigate and write about sensitive topics, such as the collaboration of Russians with the Nazi occupiers or the atrocities committed by Soviet troops, are deterred from doing so lest they be sent to prison. Prosecutions and convictions have indeed occurred.
A historical fact the russians don’t like others knowing about to this day…
Oh fuck off, for a fraction of second I thought this is something from today and that I need to pack my bags ASAP.
“Russia enters war, it’ll shock you on whose side they’re fighting!”
They kept the annexed territories after the war an expelled roughly 1.1 million Poles who had been living there for centuries.
“Fierce battle rages in the west”?
Russia using the same „we have to protect Russians in another country“ excuse as today is chilling
This is fake.
Stalin would’ve never done that
Capitalist propaganda
“Five provinces occupied by white Russians” – they misunderstood the word Belarusians here.
THose regimes were pretty much the same, like comparing coke to pepsi
The OG Horseshoe Theory application here…..
What’s actually wild is that the Soviets claimed they invaded Poland to protect Ukrainians in eastern Poland. There was also no formal declaration of war. Sounds oddly familiar…
Holy molly, paddings was luxury those days.
We punished the Nazis, but not the Ruzzians, so here we are today dealing with the consequences!
and commies will pretend that liberals side with nazis 😭😂
I was banned from r/russia bc of this
My boyfriend
Horrible wordplay for Polish speakers, for whom “Extra!” means something like “Awesome!” or “Amazing!”
>*(…) it is the duty of Russia “to extend the hand of brotherly assistance to white Russian and Ukrainian peoples,” Premier and Former Commissar V.M. Molotov told the Russian people by radio. (…)*
>
>*”The soviet government wishes to bring the Polish peoples out of the misery into which they have been plunged by their unsuccessful leaders,” Molotov said.*
Mmm.
Kremlin: No! We were denazifying Poland with actual Nazis! Da! It was special anti-Poli… err… anti-fascist operation!
Never forget. Too many people are not aware of this
And many people still idealise the Soviet Union when, in my opinion, they did the most damage during and after WW2.
They’ve nazificated poland
A Russian women just told me in YouTube comments that Poland, the “Hyena of Europe” brought the war on itself. And Germany attacked Poland when they were allies since Poland took a piece of Czechoslovakia. The reason being that Poland was too greedy.
This narrative is alive and well in Russia.
Poland got absolutely screwed over at the conclusion of WWII.
I mean I’m not sure what else the Western Allies could have done (Look up Churchill’s “Operation Unthinkable” to see how insanely dangerous liberating Poland would have been) but there’s a bitter irony in the fact that the war started because Germany invaded Poland, but in the end Poland was just handed over to a different totalitarian empire.
Nazis and their Russian allies.
So you are telling me Russians supported Nazis?
No, no. The ‘great patriotic war’ didn’t start until ’41. You can ask any Russian and they’ll confirm! /s
Someone, anyone, please post this on r/UkraineRussiaReport
I’d love to see the Russian trolls squirm over reality.
Nooooo you don’t understand poor soviet union was forced and communism wasn’t that bad 🙁
I always wonder how the WWII would have played out if the Allies hadn’t supported the Russians with billions of dollars in aid, weaponry, intelligence etc. when they got back-stabbed by the Nazis. Russia was part of the Axis powers and opportunistically tried to gain a foothold in Europe proper by conquering the Baltics, Poland, parts of Finland.
Russia two-times its partners and Allies from WWI and sides with Germany. Then Germany back-stabs Russia.
And the Allies just forget Russia’s betrayal and give it crucial help to survive and fight off the German attack.
Only to then renew enmities with Russia and start the Cold War against her when the Nazis were defeated.
Some crazy shit!
That was a bad year for the country (not like any other after 1792 was good)
Damn you’re crazy, you’re brainwashing each other here, the anti-Russian propaganda is working well.
Huh. I thought it was Poland’s fault. I could’ve sworn I saw an interview about this recently.
MAGAS have no problems with that.
Once a nazi always a nazi