Without them you would have been speaking german. Be happy we saved your asses in World War 2.
Saved? Really?
Oh, when I read this I was at the point of boiling and I had to wait a considerable ammount of time before replying to avoid flaming your brains out, and that time has come.
What you're saying is complete, utter bullcr*p - it's a fallacy againts history and it's unacceptable by any standards. Germans were already retreating from Poland when the Red Army came after the failed attempt at conquering U.S.S.R. The Red Army did not "liberate" Poland and whoever taught you that is a complete moron - Poland was a country that just happened to be on the path to Germany which the Soviets planned to level with the ground. "Liberation" and "saving" implies that the Germans were pushed out of the country and Polish independence was restored - no such thing happened. They annexed Poland, then erased it from maps, leaving nothing but smoldering ruins, pillaging villages and cities and raping women. Your great grandfather was fighting in WWII? Good riddence, my grandmother was a little girl during it and she remembers the Red Menace rolling into her home town, raping women and cutting off their breasts so that they could no longer feed their children.
The Red Army was anything but professionals - they were randomly-picked people from all across the U.S.S.R. They knew nothing of honor or the art of war - they were simple people that were given guns. Simple people with simple minds who abused the fact that they were crossing through a country with no means of defence. Some of them were twisted f*cks that I mentioned earlier who took great pleasure in killing random people for no reason whatsoever, others were thieves who entered palaces and institutions and - listen to this, removed golden doorknobs and replaced them with copper or bronze ones.
There was nothing "glorious" about your so-called "saving" of Poland - the Germans were fleeing anyways. There were no substantial skirmshes, no resistance. The Red Army went through the defenseless Poland like a butterknife through butter. At first, the remnants of Polish army were supporting their actions and even helping them in driving the remaining Germans out of the country. Do you know how they were repaid for their service?
Officers ranking high and low, alongside with the Intelligence, that being professors etc. etc. were rounded up in forests and institutionally exterminated, then burried in mass graves in the thousands. Stalin knew that Poles are entirely capable of rebirth and revolution - the choice was made to erase Poland from existence, destroy everything that is Polish and bring in a new Communist order. The Western powers allowed this to happen despite the fact that innitially they wanted to help Poland regain independence... but you know what? Back then, nobody discussed with the U.S.S.R. If the U.S.S.R gave them a false promise that they will be peaceful as long as they get "something", "something" was given to them. The whole world trembled when they thought that one day the Red Cloud might be over their homes. People didn't respect your ancestors, they didn't thank them for driving the Germans away - they were fearful for their own lives each and every day. It was only thanks to our remaining diplomats that Poland re-emerged much, much later as the People's Republic of Poland, and even then we were directly under Moscow's paw.
Christians were being persecuted againts, also leading to certain... let's call them "violations" without mentioning the details. In the end, the nation was so petrified of their own neighbours, of the fact that someone might "rat" the family out that we ended up in a state of a quiet civil war between those who chose to enter the Party just for the safety of their families and those who fought againts the Party with all power that they could muster.
Of course this is a huge jump-cut - I'm not even mentioning half of it. My point is that what you were taught is pure propaganda - it's a lie the world agreed upon just so that they don't have to look at the uncomfortable truth.
Do you know
who liberated Poland?
The Poles. In 1989. We started off a chain reaction that caused "your" glorified empire to fall apart, and we've never been so proud of anything else in our history.
If your "idea" of "saving" is pillage, r*pe, murder, propaganda of lies and destruction of what you're actually saving then yes, your ancestors helped save Poland from the Germans. Thank f*ck for that.
Not that I'm hating on you or anybody else here - I just particularily dislike when people outwardly ask me to thank them for what was essentially an unimaginable crime.
Message to the Mods: I urge you not to remove this message. It's very much related to the actual happenings under Communist rule, and Jakub's case shows exactly how the commie propaganda works. He
actually believes that what happened was beneficial in any way to the affected nations, that the great Communist Party gave the nations they conquered a reason to exist, protection and care wheras the truth is as far from those as possible - the territories under Communist domain are being exploited for resources and labour, no matter how pretty it may look when described in a Red pamphlet and the lies propagated by Communist governments are written in blood of thousands of innoscent people. Point.