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Not sure what you're claiming here: > And it ended similar: nationalist troops killed the people [...] though it was much worse in East Central Europe: Polish-

Not sure what you're claiming here: > And it ended similar: nationalist troops killed the people [...] though it was much worse in East Central Europe: Polish-Soviet War, Ukrainian War of Independence The Polish-Soviet War was not a war of "nationalists killing the people". It was a war to prevent the spread of communism and Soviet imperialism. Not only did Poles by and large reject communism (communist sympathy was higher in Germany, for example), and Soviet communism even more so, but Lenin saw Poland as the corridor through which the Red Army would need to pass to support revolution further West.

hackandthink 4y ago
The history of East Central Europe is very complicated and contested. Don't know whether there were obvious good guys in the aftermath of WW I. "He (Piłsudski) used military force to expand the Polish borders in Galicia and Volhynia and crush a Ukrainian attempt at self-determination in the disputed territories east of the Curzon Line, which contained a significant Polish minority." Lenin, Trotzki, Piłsudski killed a lot of people because of ideology and nationalism. These Mini-States look more sympathetic.