| NOTE: This clip is bigger than usually for it's devoted to a painful anniversary: today, 72 years have passed since the Soviet invasion on Poland, on 17th of September, 1939. It was merely two weeks after Nazi Germany attack on Poland from the West - on the 1st of Sept. 1939 (the day regarded as the beginning of the 2nd World War) when Stalin, fulfilling Soviet obligations deriving from Molotow --Robentrop Pact of the 23rd Aug., 1939 -- attacked Poland from the East, without even declaring a war. That was act of extreme hostility and the violation of all international agreements about conducting military actions in Europe. It was a knife in the back for Poland -- the country already attacked by Germany and bleeding in desperate struggle with prevailing Third Reich power. It meant the death sentence to a Polish state. As result of Soviet aggression, Poland lost nearly half of its prewar area with 1,5 million Polish citizens living there -- with historical centres of Polish culture, such as cities of Lwów, Wilno, Grodno, Tarnopol, with treasures of art and libraries of a priceless singnificance for Polish history and culture, collected in thousands of castles, monasteries, churches or the residences of Polish landowners and aristocracy inhabiting through centuries the Eastern part Poland. These loses have never been repaired by the Soviet Union nor in any form were excudes crimes, that were committed on hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens by Red Army soldiers as well ... |
