Post-WW2 Poland was a totalitarian state with stalinist terror. Soviets installed their puppet communist government and murdered anybody inconvenient - mostly p

Post-WW2 Poland was a totalitarian state with stalinist terror. Soviets installed their puppet communist government and murdered anybody inconvenient - mostly people who were connected to pre-WW2 government, army, guerilla fighter groups that fought against Germans or Russians during WW2, etc. For example Witold Pilecki, Polish guerilla group (AK) member who voluntered to get captured by Germans and put in Auschwitz camp to see what happens there. Then he wrote a report and escaped from the camp. After the WW2 he was captured by soviets, sentenced to deatch and executed (supposedly for speing for western powers). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki Leaders of these antinazi partizan groups from WW2 were invited after WW2 to Moscow with the supposed goal being to negotiate. When in Moscow they have been captured and sentenced to death in a show trial, and then executed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Sixteen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Sixteen Pre-WW2 Polish politician Mikołajczyk and a leader of one of the biggest parties - PSL (agrarian party) - returned from exile to Poland after WW2 and was allowed to have his party in elections (as an exception to appease Polish farmers - other parties were banned and over 30 000 people were imprisoned and executed just before the elections). The elections were falsified to absurd level, PSL was the most popular party by far, yet they got 10% of votes officially. Mikołajczyk escaped to London again and later to USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Miko%C5%82ajczyk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Miko%C5%82ajczy... There's thousand such examples. People were terrorized and kept silent out of fear for their lives. There were whole chapters of history you weren't supposed to talk about (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre ).