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Oh fuuuuck of. There are books based on actual KGB archives that were opened up. Rape of Berlin is well described. There are books about the actual bordelos attached to armies. Western armies. Soviet officers had army wives. Apparently they still do.
There are countless accounts of people prefering Nazi soldiers to soviets. It is THE reason central and easter Europe hates russia.
No data on rapes my ass. But pleeenty of data that soviets single handedly saved the world from Nazis.
Get a grasp.
Wow, so the released KGB archives show the tapes. I wonder what would happen if the Americans or the English did that too!
Hatred of Russians by eastern Europeans is due to 30+ years of anti-communist propaganda. The fact that poles hate the USSR which liberated more than the very Nazis who genocided millions of them, shows this. And it wasn't the case 40 years ago.
Polls in France after WW2 showed 70%+ of people saying it was the USSR who saved them from Nazism. Nowadays, it's 70% Americans. That's what Hollywood and propaganda do.
Yup, propaganda. Sure.
Yes. Propaganda.
No, you see, your grandparents did not encounter both Nazis and soviets. Your parents did not live under communist rule. And most of all you cannot even pin point results of current day ramifications of: 1. Occupation period, 2. Communism.
Totally, propaganda. It is sooo good that they even brainwashed your parents into thinking like they lived in bad communist state. It is so good it feels like there is a rift between generations.
Totally. And would not you know, they also did that in the Baltics and Czech.
Their link shows some infographic in french, for me. I have reposted it.
I can see it in my browser and my phone, but sure. It's a poll showing how in 1945, 55% of French people claimed the USSR freed them from Nazism. In 2015 it's 25%. That's exactly propaganda.
When you are ready to spend 10% of the time you spend shitting on communism and the USSR, actually shitting on the Nazism which carried out actual genocide in your country, I'll be ready to talk with you. I'm sorry that the Polish foundational myth is based on Russophobia and anti-communism, it's impossible to have meaningful discussions of 20th century socialism with most polish people.
I used that link not from a Reddit thread, I just know the graph and the easiest way for me to find it was to google-image-search it, and it's the first link that I could copy-paste, since it's more productive imo to link a graph than an entire study, since it's a comment section and not a scientific article.
So basically, your whole argument is, "the graph is kinda sus and I don't trust the source, probably russian propaganda, I hate Russia and I hate Nazis". Not the strongest rebuttal in my opinion.
Regardless. Notice how your phrase isn't "I hate Nazis and I hate the USSR and I hate the modern Russian government". You can make the distinction between Germany and Nazis, but you can't make the distinction between the Russian governments at different times and the nation as a whole. This proves further my point that your hatred is more Russophobia than actual historical criticism of the actions of governments.
Suddenly you only go as far back as WW2, not to the German-occupied regions of Poland before and during WW1. We forget about those because they weren't Russian, don't we? Those pesky friendly Germans in western Poland, who cares, nothing happened before Nazism, the important thing are the evil Russians. But of course we remember the Poland under the Russian Empire! Because that actually aligns with the contemporary Polish foundational myth!
Never mind that the Bolsheviks granted Poland the legal right to secede in 1917 immediately after the October revolution, and Poland used that power to immediately proceed to invade the similarly recently independent Ukraine and even some soviet lands because of nationalist conceptions of historical borders. It's somehow all the fault of Russians after all, isn't it? Much better to forbid communist parties in Poland while you have literal Nazis in parliament using fire extinguishers against Jewish symbols!
Great, now you're not talking even of Russia as a country, but of Russians as a people, and calling them universally monsters, whether they're peasants under the Russian Empire, workers in the Soviet Union, or citizens under the Russian Federation. Nice way to show everyone here that yes, your whole point here is Russophobia, not legitimate and credible analysis of history and societies.
Again, as I said, impossible to discuss with most Polish people, you're not arguing from reason but from nationalism and racism. Good night, and good luck
I will let you know the same will be for any other country that was under soviet occupation.
It is one of life's great mysteries. Never to be solved. We just cannot connect the dots!
In 1945, the soviets installed a friendly communist government in Poland, while granting it again the right to be an independent country, kind of proving that the objective from the start wasn't "to conquer Poland because Russians are so evil", but to not have enemies in their borders. There were purges of anticommunists as everywhere else in the soviet block.
Now I'll ask you: in 1989 and forwards, with the Solidarity movement. Do you believe that's a grassroots movement which spawned purely in Poland, with the only goal of freedom and democracy, and wasn't in any way influenced by other countries? Hint: USA? The 1989 "revolution" was completely autonomous and legitimate and now Poland is finally a completely free state?
Funny how the purported opinion of polish citizens about Russia isn't affected by propaganda, but the french polls are somehow.
I never claimed anything like that. I'm aware of the Katyn massacre and the purges of anticommunists in the USSR on a widespread level, just not particularly against Poland.
Sorry, only Polish people actually believe that. There's no international body as far as I know which makes any claim of genocide towards Polish by the USSR.