Kierunkowy74
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Nowy singiel łotewskich #Nesen (w składzie perkusista #Tesa)
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Nowy singiel łotewskich #Nesen (w składzie perkusista #Tesa)
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Kierunkowy74
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#Russia MFA Maria Zakharova just went on another psychedelic trip declaring that it was #Lenin who gave #Poland independence in 20th century.[^1] The statement reads like a classic Armenian Radio joke:
- not Lenin, but Red Army
- not “independence”, but military invasion
- not “gave”, but tried to take it
As a reminder, immediately after Bolshevik came to power in 1917 they crushed all internal opposition[^2] and started what we would today describe as a classic imperial expansion to the West.[^3] They conquered #Estonia #Lithuania #Latvia #Belarus to meet serious resistance in #Ukraine supported by #Poland.
So they invaded Poland in 1919 but in 1920 lost at outskirts of Warsaw[^4] and finally signed a Treaty of Riga[^5] which was a compromise between exhausted Bolshevik and equally exhausted Poland, which, unfortunately dumped Petlura’s Ukraine in the process.
There’s one more interesting piece here: Russians occasionally use the story of “thousands of Russian prisoners murdered in Poland” in 1920’s as a “moral justification” for their Katyń Massacre in 1940.
The first detail they’re skipping is how exactly these prisoners appeared in Poland in the first place - they surrendered when Bolshevik failed their invasion.
The second detail they skip is that they chose to start invasion at the time of the largest European pandemic of influenza, when 25-50 million people died on the continent, including in Poland, including Soviet prisoners.
The third detail they skip is that 40% of the prisoners chose not to return to the world’s workers’ paradise and instead chose to stay in Poland or move to Europe, while Soviet historiography in #USSR of course counted them all as “dead” (for the cause).
https://www.mk.ru/politics/2025/12/16/zakharova-rasskazala-o-roli-lenina-v-stanovlenii-polshi.html (in Russian)
[^2]: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1922/bolsheviks-shooting-anarchists.html
[^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_westward_offensive_of_1918%E2%80%931919
[^4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War
#Russia MFA Maria Zakharova just went on another psychedelic trip declaring that it was #Lenin who gave #Poland independence in 20th century.[^1] The statement reads like a classic Armenian Radio joke:
- not Lenin, but Red Army
- not “independence”, but military invasion
- not “gave”, but tried to take it
As a reminder, immediately after Bolshevik came to power in 1917 they crushed all internal opposition[^2] and started what we would today describe as a classic imperial expansion to the West.[^3] They conquered #Estonia #Lithuania #Latvia #Belarus to meet serious resistance in #Ukraine supported by #Poland.
So they invaded Poland in 1919 but in 1920 lost at outskirts of Warsaw[^4] and finally signed a Treaty of Riga[^5] which was a compromise between exhausted Bolshevik and equally exhausted Poland, which, unfortunately dumped Petlura’s Ukraine in the process.
There’s one more interesting piece here: Russians occasionally use the story of “thousands of Russian prisoners murdered in Poland” in 1920’s as a “moral justification” for their Katyń Massacre in 1940.
The first detail they’re skipping is how exactly these prisoners appeared in Poland in the first place - they surrendered when Bolshevik failed their invasion.
The second detail they skip is that they chose to start invasion at the time of the largest European pandemic of influenza, when 25-50 million people died on the continent, including in Poland, including Soviet prisoners.
The third detail they skip is that 40% of the prisoners chose not to return to the world’s workers’ paradise and instead chose to stay in Poland or move to Europe, while Soviet historiography in #USSR of course counted them all as “dead” (for the cause).
https://www.mk.ru/politics/2025/12/16/zakharova-rasskazala-o-roli-lenina-v-stanovlenii-polshi.html (in Russian)
[^2]: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1922/bolsheviks-shooting-anarchists.html
[^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_westward_offensive_of_1918%E2%80%931919
[^4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War