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On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: . . . > Whatever Stalin thought he was achieving at the time, this massacre has > poisoned relations between Russia and Poland for decades. . . Of course it isn't like Russian-Polish relations were rosy before then. We can start way back before the 1790s partitions that resulted in Poland being completely wiped off the map, the majority becoming part of the Russian empire. We can jump forward to the Poland-Soviet Russia war of 1920-21, followed in later 20s and 30s with Stalin's pruning and purging of the Communist Party of Poland until he liquidated the leadership and finally dissolved it in 1938. This cleared the way for the Stalin-Hitler pact of August 1939 secretly dividing Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union and opening the way to WWII. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
