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> These days saying "Union invaded Poland" in public gets you killed in Russia. This surprised me. What's the officially sanctioned version of history?

baybal2 7y ago
> What's the officially sanctioned version of history? To hear the official version, you have to ask first, and that either gets you a jail term for "denial of historical facts (of course, without stating which facts)" or you will just go missing to be found in separate body parts a month later.
- foobarian 7y ago
  > or you will just go missing to be found in separate body parts a month later. My communist ancestors would call this "getting swallowed by the night"
- vkou 7y ago
  This is complete nonsense. The Russian government cares about one thing - perpetuating the Russian government. Nobody in it cares about 80-year-old history.
konart 7y ago
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Польский_поход_Красной_армии_(1939) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Польский_поход_Красной_армии_(... >Польский поход Красной армии (17—29 сентября 1939 года), в советской историографии освободительный поход РККА, в современной историографии также советское вторжение в Польшу Polish march of the Red Army, liberating march of The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in soviet historiography, also Soviet invasion of Poland in modern historiography. For some reason some people over here are very eager to 'prove' some weird fantasies. I even bothered to find a scanned copy of a moder school text book. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6jSNt06CW1HQlM5ekpUWDVfdUU/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6jSNt06CW1HQlM5ekpUWDVfdUU... The polish invasion is there. Not awful lot about it, just that Hitler and Stalin desided this is how it shall be and that sovieat army entered Poland on 17th.

baybal2 7y ago

> What's the officially sanctioned version of history? To hear the official version, you have to ask first, and that either gets you a jail term for "denial of historical facts (of course, without stating which facts)" or you will just go missing to be found in separate body parts a month later.

foobarian 7y ago
> or you will just go missing to be found in separate body parts a month later. My communist ancestors would call this "getting swallowed by the night"
vkou 7y ago
This is complete nonsense. The Russian government cares about one thing - perpetuating the Russian government. Nobody in it cares about 80-year-old history.

konart 7y ago

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Польский_поход_Красной_армии_(1939) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Польский_поход_Красной_армии_(... >Польский поход Красной армии (17—29 сентября 1939 года), в советской историографии освободительный поход РККА, в современной историографии также советское вторжение в Польшу Polish march of the Red Army, liberating march of The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in soviet historiography, also Soviet invasion of Poland in modern historiography. For some reason some people over here are very eager to 'prove' some weird fantasies. I even bothered to find a scanned copy of a moder school text book. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6jSNt06CW1HQlM5ekpUWDVfdUU/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6jSNt06CW1HQlM5ekpUWDVfdUU... The polish invasion is there. Not awful lot about it, just that Hitler and Stalin desided this is how it shall be and that sovieat army entered Poland on 17th.