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Very good background, thank you for replying. They tried to capture Warsaw. Budyonny's thugs were brutal as well. But it is interesting that somehow Budyonny m
by rdtsc 6y ago
Very good background, thank you for replying.
They tried to capture Warsaw. Budyonny's thugs were brutal as well. But it is interesting that somehow Budyonny managed to be a hero in the end after technically losing the war.
Another aspect of course is that it set the stage for Russians try to "recapture" Poland, and made a deal with the Nazi Germany to "split it" between themselves in 1939. That's when the Soviet secret police committed a lot atrocities there.
- Shivetya 6y agoWell eventually they do take all that territory and more in their "liberation" of Poland and more from Germany though they love to have the world ignore the annexations of Latvian countries and attempt to take Finland when they opened WW2 with Germany. So of the two aggressor states that started WW2 they gained a lot of what they were after and left the world with decades of oppression.
- fuoqi 6y agoOh, it's very convenient to forget the fact that Poland has occupied Czechoslovakia territory in 38 as part of the Munich Agreement supported by the "free" world. "Hyena of Europe" is a really good description in my opinion. Even before WW2 Poland has shamelessly invaded Ukraine and Belarus during the civil war in an attempt to implement its Intermarium imperialistic vision. You reap what you sow.