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Re: I'm a Russian Occupant [ENG Subtitles]
by
bitgeek
on 28/02/2015, 16:41:22 UTC
For the hundreds time: not Russian, but Soviet. Not Red Army, but Soviet Army. I feel very much compelled to revive a history sub-topic that I let slip on the Donetsk thread.

Second. Soviet Union pulled its military presence (after rebuilding much of Poland after WWII). USA never did so with West-Germany. In fact as soon USSR moved out of Poland USA moved in. Oh, the irony.

But for a start, for the general historical education, please read the following article:
http://stanislavs.org/the-sorrow-of-a-warsaw-woman-why-poland-is-not-happy-to-be-liberated-from-fascism/

In 1945-1948 Soviet Union was busy rebuilding Poland, sending there engineers, machinery, manpower. Soviet Union itself was still struggling with the aftermath of WWII by the end of 1950s, but all the "brotherly" countries of the Eastern Block were by that time rebuilt and in good shape.
I understand that it's not politically correct to say anything positive about Soviet Union in Poland and that history books are being busily rewritten to suite the demands of the new masters...

...during the Russian Civil War. Beginning in February 1946, the Red Army, along with the Soviet Navy, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces; taking the official name "The Soviet Army" (Russian: Coвeтcкaя Apмия (CA)/Sovetskaya Armija), until its dissolution in December 1991.
Soviet Army and Red Army all the same, unless I fail to see the difference here.

I read your article, you have an interesting view, but getting back to what you said above...

There were busy with a lot of things at the time, for example building monuments (http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/02/27/soviet-army-monument-banned-from-returning-to-warsaw-street) and renaming streets. They were changing school programs to teach Russian language and their own version of history, in which many Polish war heroes of the interwar period were banned. They were also establishing Security Service formed to resemble NKVD (the agents were even taught by Soviet agents) with the purpose of finding and removing nationalists and anyone opposing the new order.
I could go on and on about the good things the Russians (oh, sorry, Soviets) brought us and all the good memories they left behind when they left in 93.