Boroda, I guess you really like your country.
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"I never say that Soviet soldiers were angels, but the picture you draw is a complete nonsence. Anyway, Germans could avoid any sufferings that followed the foreign occupation if they didn't attack USSR and other countries."
Recent evidence suggests that the Russians were planning to invade Germany in the Spring of 1942. Hitler just beat them to the party. In fact, the way Russian equipment was stockpiled in Poland just in order to be used the next year helped the Germans in causing even more damage to the Russian war machine. So, it was just a question of time, and who would be the aggressor.
The Russians invaded Poland also, don't forget that. The Russians invaded Finland. Beautiful and cunning politics? Naa, sheer brutal greed and landgrabbing. So in my eyes they did not differ a lot from the Germans.
Now there have been some issues of open or sencored history, and propoganda. Do the russian history books mention the mass murders of thousands of polish officers in Katyn forest (spelling?).
The Polish books under the communist reign did not. However, the Polish people still knew. Same accounts for the Jewish rebellion in Warsaw, where the red army halted its advance while the SS troops cleared out the Jews. Not in the books so much, but the people still know it. There was just so much stuff hidden under the red carpets of russia.
I like so many others here am not so well familiar with the russian lifestyle, neither today, nor before the fall of the iron curtain. However I have many friends that lived on the "other" side, and from them I know that it was very far from the open and "free" societies that the people of western europe take for granted. Communism may have its good points, but it totally lost the race in comparison with the western way.