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I can see it in my browser and my phone, but sure. It's a poll showing how in 1945, 55% of French people claimed the USSR freed them from Nazism. In 2015 it's 25%. That's exactly propaganda.
When you are ready to spend 10% of the time you spend shitting on communism and the USSR, actually shitting on the Nazism which carried out actual genocide in your country, I'll be ready to talk with you. I'm sorry that the Polish foundational myth is based on Russophobia and anti-communism, it's impossible to have meaningful discussions of 20th century socialism with most polish people.
https://lemmy.saik0.com/post/911795/3275325
feel free to actually address it at your leisure. But you've shown that you're crazy anyway. So I don't think anyone has high hopes for you.
I shit on both Nazis and Russia. Both then and now.
I used that link not from a Reddit thread, I just know the graph and the easiest way for me to find it was to google-image-search it, and it's the first link that I could copy-paste, since it's more productive imo to link a graph than an entire study, since it's a comment section and not a scientific article.
So basically, your whole argument is, "the graph is kinda sus and I don't trust the source, probably russian propaganda, I hate Russia and I hate Nazis". Not the strongest rebuttal in my opinion.
Regardless. Notice how your phrase isn't "I hate Nazis and I hate the USSR and I hate the modern Russian government". You can make the distinction between Germany and Nazis, but you can't make the distinction between the Russian governments at different times and the nation as a whole. This proves further my point that your hatred is more Russophobia than actual historical criticism of the actions of governments.
Suddenly you only go as far back as WW2, not to the German-occupied regions of Poland before and during WW1. We forget about those because they weren't Russian, don't we? Those pesky friendly Germans in western Poland, who cares, nothing happened before Nazism, the important thing are the evil Russians. But of course we remember the Poland under the Russian Empire! Because that actually aligns with the contemporary Polish foundational myth!
Never mind that the Bolsheviks granted Poland the legal right to secede in 1917 immediately after the October revolution, and Poland used that power to immediately proceed to invade the similarly recently independent Ukraine and even some soviet lands because of nationalist conceptions of historical borders. It's somehow all the fault of Russians after all, isn't it? Much better to forbid communist parties in Poland while you have literal Nazis in parliament using fire extinguishers against Jewish symbols!
No... and not even close. The graph led me to the study which has obvious flaws... But even IGNORING Those flaws... they themselves put up an argument of why the sentiment could have been this way... and it was because of the French leadership.
Nope, I can make that distinction. The difference here is that both in the past and present they're monsters. During Communism they shit on Poland, and now they threaten Ukraine... our neighbors. I don't NEED to make the distinction because it's both cases. Where as with Gemany I have to make the distinction as they're not currently ruled by the Nazi party.
No... That's the context of this thread. I kept with the context. The fact that you have to keep shifting goal-posts and cannot continue the discussion under the same pretenses is a huge red flag.
So in 1945... what happened to Poland... since they legally succeeded from the USSR they were a free country again right? https://archive.org/details/polandsholocaust00piot/page/88/mode/2up Or did Russia actually completely fuck Poland (again) by undermining it's legitimacy? Removing all previous influences and pulled them into the Soviet Union. Going so far as to kill thousands for no fucking reason other than they weren't communist.
Nah, that just historic revisionism that pro-Russian people spout all the time. You seem to love changing time-frames all the time. So here... let's end this stupidity.
Which time do you want to talk about how Russia tried to fuck Poland? I've traced my roots back to the 1500s... I can possibly talk about a number of these wars.
But it's a general trend that Russia goes out of it's way to Fuck the Polish people. Yet somehow this is Russophobia! Yeah get out of here.
Great, now you're not talking even of Russia as a country, but of Russians as a people, and calling them universally monsters, whether they're peasants under the Russian Empire, workers in the Soviet Union, or citizens under the Russian Federation. Nice way to show everyone here that yes, your whole point here is Russophobia, not legitimate and credible analysis of history and societies.
Again, as I said, impossible to discuss with most Polish people, you're not arguing from reason but from nationalism and racism. Good night, and good luck
Nope again... Here's the real context. We were talking about Russian governments. I stated that I didn't need to make a distrinction, as it was clear that I was talking about the Russian government both past and present as I then outlined several issues that the government is the only actor in, not the people themselves.
Try again.
And yet you've failed to address ANY concern I've brought up. Conveniently ignoring every premise I've brought up to counter your bullshit.
Uh huh... That's absurdly funny as I'm actually a dual citizen. I've made no assumptions about you or your statuses, and yet you've made plenty about mine. But somehow I'm nationalist and racist. Look in the mirror. All you've done is attributed nonsense to me based on limited information, classical "racism".
Lets simplify this. Answer either one of these items... Remember both are cited questions.
Edit: Keep in mind I even took the BEST of your comments... You seem to be under some belief that the USSR never committed atrocities and genocide levels of damage to Poland. You're already wrong.
In 1945, the soviets installed a friendly communist government in Poland, while granting it again the right to be an independent country, kind of proving that the objective from the start wasn't "to conquer Poland because Russians are so evil", but to not have enemies in their borders. There were purges of anticommunists as everywhere else in the soviet block.
Now I'll ask you: in 1989 and forwards, with the Solidarity movement. Do you believe that's a grassroots movement which spawned purely in Poland, with the only goal of freedom and democracy, and wasn't in any way influenced by other countries? Hint: USA? The 1989 "revolution" was completely autonomous and legitimate and now Poland is finally a completely free state?
Funny how the purported opinion of polish citizens about Russia isn't affected by propaganda, but the french polls are somehow.
I never claimed anything like that. I'm aware of the Katyn massacre and the purges of anticommunists in the USSR on a widespread level, just not particularly against Poland.
Sorry, only Polish people actually believe that. There's no international body as far as I know which makes any claim of genocide towards Polish by the USSR.
Alright we're done. You can't even keep your own shit straight.
So not a country with it's own freedom at all then. I thought you said they were free. Imagine telling a country it's free when the USA installs whatever government it chooses.
Man oh man. I'm so glad that the Katyn massacre affected other countries other than Poland! Feel free to tell the class how this wasn't "particularly against Poland".
For those who don't know...
So basically the death count of Palestine right now... which has been labeled a genocide by the UN and multiple other parties. This is JUST that one event. Not including the USSR's "anticommunist purge". Which is estimated to have killed more than 100,000 Poles and Deported Millions more (most of them likely dying as population of Siberia and other places they were sent to didn't see a matching population boost).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_repressions_of_Polish_citizens_(1939%E2%80%931946)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Poles_(1944%E2%80%931946)
Oh and before you say something really fucking stupid...like "Poland wanted to be soviet controlled".
Why would they want to be Soviet controlled when they specifically broke ties with Russia over the Katyn massacre?
No it's not funny at all. It's expected that normal people wouldn't know about every military operation that occurred during WW2. Specifically the US landing at Normandy and other similar operations. When I talk about the opinion of my family it's first hand experience of how they lived. There's a distinct difference in how you would expect a person to know about the events.
And before you comment again...
Fucking 6 million Poles died in WW2. 1/6th of that was Russia.
Millions of poles died to Soviet hands. Mostly on foreign soil that they were forced to. Imagine causing 1/6th of the total losses of a war and then claiming that the Soviets were a godsend!. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_Poland
But nah! Totally not Genocide at all! And Russia hasn't even owned up to some extent that they did it! I'm sorry, you're fucking wrong and this conversation is done.
I will let you know the same will be for any other country that was under soviet occupation.
It is one of life's great mysteries. Never to be solved. We just cannot connect the dots!