I'm sorry, but this reads like "Russians fought for Belarusian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Ruthenian lands". Looks quite strange at least about Ukrainians (whi

I'm sorry, but this reads like "Russians fought for Belarusian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Ruthenian lands". Looks quite strange at least about Ukrainians (which were half as many as Russians). Do you think they stayed home? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_All-Union_Census_of_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_All-Union_Census_of_the_... Meanwhile Poland occupied ethnic Ukrainian territories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Ukrainian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Ukrainian_War (east of future Curzon line). This helped Bolshevik to overthrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic Of course Bolshevik never intended to stop until all Europe is in fire. That's Poland who started the war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Offensive_(1920) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Offensive_(1920) > Piłsudski also said: Closed within the boundaries of the 16th century, cut off from the Black Sea and Baltic Sea, deprived of land and mineral wealth of the South and South-east, Russia could easily move into the status of second-grade power. Poland as the largest and strongest of new states, could easily establish a sphere of influence stretching from Finland to the Caucasus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Soviet_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Soviet_War I can't see Poland in good light here - same imperial attitude, same old flows in ethnic politics. Same as Russia. As for the pact > The terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939 provided for the partition of Poland along the line of the San, Vistula and Narew rivers which did not go along Curzon Line but reached far beyond it and awarded the Soviet Union with territories of Lublin and near Warsaw. Yet > Soviet Union annexed all territories east of the Curzon Line plus Białystok and Eastern Galicia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line PS: I've replied only because I wanted to display that the comment is heavily biased (way more than other "western" countries) towards minimizing its own misdeeds, and portraying them as innocent, normal or justified.