“In June 1940, shortly before France capitulated, the Polish government-in-exile moved its headquarters to London and steered and controlled the Polish Home Army from there. In 1944, this resistance movement numbered approximately 350,000 armed fighters
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin backed Polish communists only. While the Home Army started the uprising in Warsaw, the Red Army halted on the opposite bank of the Vistula River without intervening in the fighting. A victory for the Home Army, which would probably have led to the instalment of an anti-communist government, was not in Stalin’s interest. – Stalin’s desire to decide Poland’s postwar borders and government, however, also played an important role since it guided his decision not to provide sufficient aid to the Polish Home Army. “
Kapanash on
Liberation so generous it required secret police.
BackgroundRich7614 on
Yeah, the Soviets were pretty much the Russian Empire with a new coat of paint and acted as such despite what they claimed to believe in.
In many ways the Soviet Union was the last great, traditional, Colonial Empire, and one of the most brutal and repressive in history, at that.
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“In June 1940, shortly before France capitulated, the Polish government-in-exile moved its headquarters to London and steered and controlled the Polish Home Army from there. In 1944, this resistance movement numbered approximately 350,000 armed fighters
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin backed Polish communists only. While the Home Army started the uprising in Warsaw, the Red Army halted on the opposite bank of the Vistula River without intervening in the fighting. A victory for the Home Army, which would probably have led to the instalment of an anti-communist government, was not in Stalin’s interest. – Stalin’s desire to decide Poland’s postwar borders and government, however, also played an important role since it guided his decision not to provide sufficient aid to the Polish Home Army. “
Liberation so generous it required secret police.
Yeah, the Soviets were pretty much the Russian Empire with a new coat of paint and acted as such despite what they claimed to believe in.
In many ways the Soviet Union was the last great, traditional, Colonial Empire, and one of the most brutal and repressive in history, at that.