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> Meanwhile I'll remind you that Felix Dzerzhinsky[0], who created the predecessor of KGB for Lenin, was a Pole born in Russian Poland

And? You seem to be commenting like I claimed that Poles are nation of saints.

And from "Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin and leader of Soviet secret police" description it is clear he was awful and evil human being.

Letting such person to end in position of authority and create not one secret police but three of them is utter failure of society in which he was living (Russian one).

Though it is noteworthy that likely most evil people of Polish origin (and maybe Poles if they were really Poles) did this in position of authority of Russian state. Not Polish one.

> If you don't cooperate with USSR against Hitler, having signed non-aggression pact with Hitler just 4 years earlier[2], don't be upset that USSR finally signed its own non-aggression pact with Hitler

non-aggression part was not a problem, the problem was in secret part about cooperation

Poland and no point signed treaty with Hitler to jointly dismember Russia, while Russia signed treaty with Hitler to jointly dismember Poland (and other countries)

(yes, I know about Zaolzie)



>And?

And "Lenin et all" included these Polish gentlemen which casts some doubt regarding you claim about "salivating at subjugation of Poland".

>in secret part about cooperation

There is nothing about cooperation in the secret part[0]. Just that Hitler stops at approximately the Curzon Line and doesn't take the territory that Poland grabbed from the corpse of Russian Empire. In fact, Soviet troops didn't move into Poland until German troops stopped advancing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...




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