After reading this topic, friends, you can silence your opponent in a dispute about the cruel USSR, a bloody regime and other nonsense that (absolutely not knowing history) are trying to pour into our ears Europeans and our compatriots converts to liberalism
What Eastern European Russophobes are silent about.
Food for thought:
Having received huge territories by the decision of the USSR, these countries call us occupiers. But what would the map of Europe turn into if you had not given the USSR thousands of kilometers of territories to the very countries that now call us occupiers. And will they give up these lands?
Wroclaw is one of the most touristic cities in Poland. Everywhere there are crowds of people with cameras, in expensive restaurants there is nowhere for an apple to fall, taxi drivers break the godless prices. The Wroclaw banner sways at the entrance to the Market Square - a real Polish charm. However, back in May 1945, Wroclaw was called Breslau and had not belonged to Poland for 600 years in a row. Victory Day, now referred to in Warsaw as the beginning of communist tyranny, added German Silesia, Pomerania, and 80% of East Prussia to Poland. No one stutters about this: that is, tyranny is tyranny, and we will take the land for ourselves.
Let's figure out what the map of Europe would look like now if our ex-brothers in the East were left without the help of the "occupiers"?
In 1945, Poland received the cities of Breslau, Gdansk, Zielona Góra, Legnica, Szczecin, - says Maciej Wisniewski, a Polish independent journalist - the USSR also gave the territory of Bialystok, with the mediation of Stalin we acquired the disputed city of Klodzsko with Czechoslovakia. We believe that the partition of Poland under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, when the USSR took Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, was unjust, but the transfer of Silesia and Pomerania to the Poles by Stalin was just, it cannot be disputed.
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It is fashionable now to say that the Russians did not liberate, but captured. An interesting occupation turns out if Poland received a quarter of Germany for free: moreover, hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers shed blood for this land. Even the GDR resisted, not wanting to give Szczecin to the Poles - the issue with the city was finally resolved only in 1956 under pressure from the USSR.
The Baltic states are also strongly outraged by the occupation. It is worth remembering: the present capital Vilnius was also presented to Lithuania by the USSR; the Lithuanian population of Vilnius was then 1%, and the Polish and Belarusian - the majority. The USSR returned to the republic the city of Klaipeda (Prussian Memel), which belonged to the Lithuanians in 1923-1939. and annexed by the Third Reich. Back in 1991, the Lithuanian leadership condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, but no one returned both Vilnius to Poland and Klaipeda in the FRG.
Ukraine, through the mouth of Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, declared itself a victim of Soviet aggression along with Germany, is unlikely to give the Poles its western part with Lvov, Ivano-Frankovsk and Ternopil (these cities were included in the Ukrainian SSR in 1939), Romania - Chernivtsi region (ceded to the Ukrainian SSR on August 2, 1940), and Hungary or Slovakia - to Transcarpathia, received on June 29, 1945.
Romanian politicians do not stop discussions about the justice of the annexation of Moldova by the Soviet Union in 1940.
Of course, it was forgotten long ago: after the war, it was thanks to the USSR that the Romanians got back the province of Transylvania, which Hitler took in favor of Hungary.
Bulgaria, through Stalin's mediation, retained Southern Dobrudja (formerly the possession of that very Romania), which was confirmed by the treaty of 1947. But now, not a single word is said about this in the Romanian and Bulgarian newspapers.
The Czech Republic has removed monuments to Soviet soldiers and announced that Victory Day marks the replacement of one dictatorship with another, says the Czech historian. - At the insistence of the USSR, Czechoslovakia returned the Sudetenland with the cities of Karlovy Vary and Liberec, where 92% of the population were Germans. The Western powers at the Munich conference in 1938 supported the annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany, only the USSR protested.
The Poles seized the Teshin region from Czechoslovakia and did not want to give it back after the war, insisting on a referendum. After the Soviet pressure on Poland and support for the Czechoslovak position, an agreement was signed, Teshin was returned to the Czechs, securing it with an agreement of 1958. Nobody says thank you for the USSR's help - apparently, the Russians owe only one fact of their existence. We have given away lands to everyone, we have not forgotten anyone - and now they spit in our faces for this.
Few people know about the pogrom that the new authorities committed in the returned territories. 14 million Germans were expelled from Pomerania and the Sudetenland. If the inhabitants of Koenigsberg (which became Soviet Kaliningrad) moved to the GDR for 6 years (until 1951), then in Poland and Czechoslovakia - 2-3 months, and many Germans were given only 24 hours to pack, being allowed to take only a suitcase of things, and hundreds of kilometers forced to walk.
It is not worth mentioning this, they note in the mayor's office of the city of Szczecin (Poland) - Such things spoil good relations with Germany.
They poke us with any trifle in the face, and it is a sin to offend the Germans. Personally, I am interested in justice in this matter. It has already reached schizophrenia: when a person in Eastern Europe says that the victory of the USSR over Nazism is liberation, he is considered a fool, a traitor.
Let's be honest. If the consequences of May 9, 1945 are bad, illegal and terrible, then the other actions of the USSR during that period are no better. Could the decisions of those who brought tyranny to your land be good? Therefore, Poland should give Silesia, Pomerania and Prussia back to the Germans, Ukraine should return its western part to the Poles, Chernivtsi - to the Romanians, Transcarpathia - to the Hungarians, Lithuania to abandon Vilnius and Klaipeda, Romania - from Transylvania, the Czech Republic - from the Sudetenland and Teshin, Bulgaria - from Dobrudzhi.
And then everything will be absolutely honest. But where there. They cover us for what the world is worth, they accuse us of all mortal sins, but they seized the Stalinist gifts with a stranglehold. Sometimes you just want to imagine: I wonder what would have happened if Hitler's USSR had been thrown exactly to its borders and did not look further into Europe?
What would now remain of the territories of those countries that, 73 years after the Victory, call their liberation by Soviet troops an occupation?
The answer, however, is extremely simple - horns and legs.
