I see a lot of angry Russians in this thread. You shouldn't be ashamed, you have such a beautiful history of shooting unarmed prisoners in the back of the head (1940), just like ISIS is doing now.
It wasn't about unarmed prisoners, but about deserters.
Enacted by Djugashivi/Stalin - a Georgian.
And now this practice is encated by law in modern Ukraine.
PoWs in USSR got better rations than the Soviet citizens. Get your history strait - historical accuracy is not optional thing to serve your needs.
I'm on your side of the argument but I have to point out he could be referring to the Katyn massacre by the NKVD, where thousands of the most educated Poles - officers, doctors, etc. - were rounded up, and executed many with a bullet to the back of the head. (Although I believe, many more were put out on barges then sunk).
The Soviets blamed this crime on the Germans for decades, and many Poles have not forgiven "Russia" for this national catastrophe. Nor has Russia properly apologized or taken responsibly for this, or any of their atrocities against Poland in WWII. Just trying to shed some light on Poland's seemingly pro-banderite stance, but not justify it in any way.
Sorry, but it cuts both ways. The Poles also love to lay themselves out on the Battle of Praga in 1794 that was followed by a massacre of the civilian population by Alexander Suvorov's troops. But they forget to mention the slaughter of over half of the Russian garrison in Warsaw a few months earlier, when about 2,000 Russian soldiers had been mercilessly killed. You may ask what the hell the Russian troops were doing in Warsaw back then? This is a good question, but then I may well ask you what the Poles were doing in Moscow in 1612?
Yes I was talking about Katyn. Russians denied responsibility for this until the 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eefn1FyXC9w
Recently some new NKVD orders came to light.
http://www.polskieradio.pl/beb140df-b78c-4035-a4ae-44eee61f8750.file
In the years 1937-38 A lot of Poles living in the territory of the Soviet Union were captured and murdered, just like Jews in Germany at that time, not to mention the Russian attack in 1939, which was called in Poland a backstabbing and was never forgotten. Russia even maintained missile bases and kept troops in Poland until the bitter end of socialism, which by many has been viewed as passive occupation.
The relationships between Poland and Russia have never been good, and they got much worse during Putin's reign.
That said, if I met a Russian in a bar I'd rather drink with him than start a fight, so there's no hate here.
hey super genius, why can't you concentrate on your personal history, how your own slaved under the thumb of the ctrl+p team? too hard? or simply following the doctrine? haha, pikers.