And Anders' army
The Polish emigrant government was created on September 30, 1939 in Angers (France). It consisted mainly of political figures who pre-war years actively colluded with Hitler, intending with his help to create “Greater Poland” at the expense of the territories neighboring states. In June 1940 it moved to England. On July 30, 1941, the USSR concluded a mutual assistance agreement with the emigrant Polish government, according to which Polish military units were created on the territory of the Soviet Union. In connection with the anti-Soviet activities of the Polish government, on April 25, 1943, the USSR government broke off relations with it.
From the Cambridge Five, the Soviet leadership received information about the plans of the British to bring them to power in post-war Poland. politicians, opposed to the Soviet Union, and recreate the pre-war cordon sanitaire on the USSR border.
On December 23, 1943, intelligence provided the country's leadership secret report Minister of the Polish Exile Government in London and Chairman of the Polish Commission for Post-War Reconstruction Sejda, sent to the President of Czechoslovakia Benes as official document Polish government on issues of post-war settlement. It was entitled “Poland and Germany and the Post-War Reconstruction of Europe.” Its meaning boiled down to the following: Germany should be occupied in the west by England and the USA, in the east by Poland and Czechoslovakia. Poland should receive land along the Oder and Neisse. The border with the Soviet Union should be restored according to the 1921 treaty. Two federations should be created in the east of Germany - in Central and South-Eastern Europe, consisting of Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania, and in the Balkans - within Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and possibly Turkey. The main goal of uniting in a federation is to exclude any influence of the Soviet Union on them.
It was important for the Soviet leadership to know the attitude of the allies to the plans of the Polish émigré government. Although Churchill agreed with him, he understood the unreality of the Poles’ plans. Roosevelt called them “harmful and stupid.” He spoke in favor of establishing the Polish-Soviet border along the “Curzon Line”. He also condemned plans to create blocs and federations in Europe.
On Yalta Conference in February 1945, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin discussed the fate of Poland and agreed that the Warsaw government should be "reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic figures from Poland and Poles from abroad" and that it would then be recognized the legitimate provisional government of the country.
Polish emigrants in London greeted the Yalta decision with hostility, declaring that the Allies had “betrayed Poland.” They defended their claims to power in Poland not so much by political as by forceful methods. On the basis of the Home Army (AK), after the liberation of Poland by Soviet troops, the sabotage and terrorist organization “Liberty and Freedom” was organized, which operated in Poland until 1947.
Another structure that the Polish exile government relied on was the army of General Anders. It was formed on Soviet soil by agreement between the Soviet and Polish authorities in 1941 in order to fight against the Germans together with the Red Army. To train and equip it in preparation for war with Germany, the Soviet government provided Poland with an interest-free loan of 300 million rubles and created all the conditions for conducting recruitment and camp exercises.
But the Poles were in no hurry to fight. From the report of Lieutenant Colonel Berling, later the head of the armed forces of the Warsaw government, it turned out that in 1941, shortly after the first Polish units were formed on Soviet territory, General Anders told his officers: “As soon as the Red Army saves under the pressure of the Germans, which will happen in a few months, we will be able to break through the Caspian Sea to Iran. Since we will be the only armed force in this territory, we will be free to do whatever we please.”
According to Lieutenant Colonel Berling, Anders and his officers “did everything to delay the period of training and arming their divisions” so that they would not have to act against Germany, terrorized Polish officers and soldiers who wanted to accept the help of the Soviet government and take up arms go against the invaders of your homeland. Their names were entered in a special index called “card file B” as Soviet sympathizers.
The so-called “Two”, the intelligence department of Anders’ army, collected information about Soviet military factories, state farms, railways, field warehouses, location of Red Army troops. Therefore, in August 1942, Anders' army and family members of military personnel were evacuated to Iran, under the auspices of the British.
On March 13, 1944, Australian journalist James Aldridge, bypassing military censorship, sent correspondence to the New York Times regarding the methods of the leaders of the Polish emigrant army in Iran. Aldridge reported that he had been trying for more than a year to make public the facts about the behavior of Polish emigrants, but Union censorship prevented him from doing so. One of the censors told Aldridge: “I know this is all true, but what can I do? After all, we recognized the Polish government.”
Here are some of the facts that Aldridge cited: “In the Polish camp there was a division into castes. The lower the position occupied by a person, the worse conditions in which he had to live. Jews were separated into a special ghetto. The camp was administered on a totalitarian basis... Reactionary groups waged a ceaseless campaign against Soviet Russia... When over three hundred Jewish children were to be taken to Palestine, the Polish elite, among whom anti-Semitism flourished, put pressure on the Iranian authorities so that the Jewish children would be denied transit ... I heard from many Americans that they would willingly tell the whole truth about the Poles, but that this will lead to nothing, since the Poles have a strong “hand” in Washington on the sidelines..."
As the war drew to a close and Polish territory was largely liberated by Soviet troops, the Polish government in exile began to build up the potential of its security forces, as well as develop a spy network in the Soviet rear. Throughout the autumn-winter of 1944 and the spring months of 1945, while the Red Army launched its offensive, striving for final defeat German military machine on Eastern Front, Home Army under the leadership of General Okulicki, former boss Anders army headquarters, was intensively studying terrorist acts, sabotage, espionage and armed raids behind Soviet lines.
Here are excerpts from the directive of the London Polish government No. 7201-1-777 dated November 11, 1944, addressed to General Okulitsky: “Since knowledge of the military intentions and capabilities ... of the Soviets in the east is of fundamental importance for anticipating and planning further developments of events, you must ... transmit intelligence reports to Poland, according to the instructions of the intelligence department of the headquarters.” Further, the directive requested detailed information about Soviet military units, transport, fortifications, airfields, weapons, data on military industry etc.
On March 22, 1945, General Okulitsky expressed the cherished aspirations of his London superiors in a secret directive to Colonel "Slavbor", the commander western district Home Army. Okulitsky's emergency directive read: “If the USSR wins over Germany, this will threaten not only the interests of England in Europe, but the whole of Europe will be in fear... Taking into account their interests in Europe, the British will have to begin mobilizing the forces of Europe against the USSR. It is clear that we will in the forefront of this European anti-Soviet bloc; and it is also impossible to imagine this bloc without the participation of Germany, which will be controlled by the British.”
These plans and hopes of the Polish emigrants turned out to be short-lived. At the beginning of 1945, the Soviet military intelligence arrested Polish spies operating behind Soviet lines. By the summer of 1945, sixteen of them, including General Okulitsky, appeared before the Military Collegium Supreme Court USSR and received different terms conclusions.
Based on the above, I would like to remind our powers that be, who go out of their way to seem like “podpunks” next to Polish gentry, a characteristic given to the Poles by the wise Churchill: “The heroic character traits of the Polish people should not force us to close our eyes to their recklessness and ingratitude, which over the course of a number of centuries caused them immeasurable suffering... We must consider it a mystery and tragedy of European history that the people capable of any heroism, individual representatives who is talented, valiant, charming, constantly displays such shortcomings in almost every aspect of his state life. Glory in times of rebellion and sorrow; infamy and shame during periods of triumph. The bravest of the brave have too often been led by the foulest of the foul! And yet there have always been two Polands: one fought for the truth, and the other grovelled in meanness" (Winston Churchill. Second World War. Book 1. M., 1991).
And if, according to the plans of the American Pole Zbigniew Brzezinski, it is impossible to recreate the Soviet Union without Ukraine, we should not forget the lessons of history and remember that in the same way, without the western lands of Ukraine, the construction of the IV Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is impossible.
Poland intends to raise the issue of receiving war reparations from Germany to international platforms. This was announced last Sunday, September 24 Chairman of the ruling Law and Justice party(PiS) Jaroslaw Kaczynski. In an interview with the magazine Sieci Prawdy (Network of Truth), he stated:
“We have every chance of reparations; I see no legal grounds for refusal. Poland's arguments should be heard louder in Europe. I am satisfied with the rejection of the trend that forced us to recognize Poland as almost an ally of Germany ( This refers, first of all, to the participation of pre-war Poland in the division of Czechoslovakia. — S.D.). Even in Germany we have heard voices saying that they will not pay because they do not want or cannot pay, but the Polish arguments exist and matter. It is important that this matter becomes public. Therefore, it is necessary to act consistently, dividing all actions into stages. Now is the stage of the Sejm, which means it’s not a stage yet official speech Polish state", Kaczynski said, recalling that President Andrzej Duda I already raised this issue in a conversation with presidentGermany Frank-Walter Steinmeier. According to the chairman of PiS, “the issue needs to be carefully prepared, this issue needs to be made into a problem in the international level, and later move on to more specific actions.”
According to Kaczynski, Poland suffered not only human but also enormous material losses in World War II. “Germany needs to be reminded of trains full of looted works of art, valuable objects, but also things of less value, ordinary property of Poles,” says the PiS leader. — The feeling of impunity of the occupiers led to the fact that they committed on a massive scale crimes and other than those officially recognized as crimes. Poland cannot agree to reduce all the evil and all the crimes of World War II to the Holocaust,” Kaczynski said.
This whole “reparations campaign” began back in July, when at a party (PiS) conference Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that “Poland never refused compensation for the Second World War, and those who think so are mistaken.” The call of the party leader was immediately taken up by his comrades - Deputy Prime Minister Cornel Morawiecki And ministerNational Defense AnthonyMacherevich, who began to detail exactly what reparations Poland is entitled to, and in what specific way they are going to collect them. She also contributed her “five cents” PPrime Minister Beata Szydlo:
“Poland talks about justice. Poland is talking about what needs to be done,” she said. — We are victims of the Second World War. We are victims who have not yet been compensated in any way. Reparations should be a reminder of justice, that Poland belongs. If we are talking about voices that criticize this position, that have a different opinion, then they must first of all look at history and remember what happened on Polish soil during the Second World War,” said the head of government, and as proof of the seriousness of her intentions, she voiced total amount The reparations that Germany must pay to Poland are 258 billion pre-war zlotys or, in terms of the exchange rate on August 1, 1939, 48.8 billion USD (this figure was derived by experts from the Analytical Bureau of the Sejm (Biura Analiz Sejmowych).
Let me briefly remind you: the issue of reparations to Germany for damage caused during the Second World War was decided in 1945 at conferences in Yalta (February 4-11, 1945) and Potsdam (July 17-August 2, 1945), in which they accepted participation of the leaders of the victorious countries: from the USSR - Joseph Stalin, from Great Britain - Winston Churchill, from the USA - Franklin Roosevelt(in Yalta) and Harry Truman(in Potsdam).
Poland's reparation claims were to be satisfied by the USSR from its share (it was planned that Poland would receive 15%; in August 1945, the amount of reparations was agreed upon between the USSR and Poland and secured by a corresponding agreement). The remaining members of the anti-Hitler coalition were supposed to receive reparations from the Western occupation zones. But the USSR’s share was formed through reparations from both zones of occupation - Western and Soviet.
In May 1946, the Western powers refused to pay reparations to the USSR from their occupation zones. Thus, Poland received only a share of reparations from Soviet zone occupation. After the formation of the German Democratic Republic on October 7, 1949, the governments of the Polish People's Republic and the USSR agreed in August 1953 to refuse to collect reparations from the GDR.
The issue of German reparations in favor of Poland was completely closed on September 12, 1990, with the signing of the state Treaty on the Final Settlement in relation to Germany (also known as the “2+4 Treaty”), concluded between the GDR and Germany, as well as the USSR, Great Britain, and the USA and France. Since during its preparation Poland did not make any demands for reparations, it was agreed that this treaty would block all subsequent demands for reparations.
Now the head Polish Foreign Ministry Witold Waszczykowski- also a member of PiS - shouts at all corners: “In 1953, the Polish government was a communist colony, and therefore all its decisions are invalid. In general, there are a number of doubts about whether these decisions have any significance in international law».
Let's say. But what about 1990, noble sir? After all, at the time of the signing of the “Treaty 2+4”, the communist Polish People’s Republic had already sunk into oblivion a year ago and at the helm was a government led by premiere by Tadeusz Mazowiecki And Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Leszek Balcerowicz? Ah, they were then completely absorbed in the "radical transformation" political institutions and organs local government, liberalization of prices and privatization of state property,” as a result of which they had no opportunity to be distracted by anything else. Well, those who didn’t make it in time are late, as the German authorities announced to the Cabinet of Beata Szydlo:
“The German government considers the issue of war reparations for damage caused to Poland during the Second World War closed,” she said. Deputy Federal Government Spokesperson Ulrike Demmer. — Berlin is certainly responsible for the Second World War morally, politically and financially, but the issue of German reparations to Warsaw was finally settled in the past, politically and legal level».
But despite such a rebuke, the Polish cabinet continues its “onslaught.”
Ukrainian, vilely killed on April 16, 2015 in Kyiv writer and journalist Oles Buzina back in September 2008, he published an article on his website “How the Poles and Hitler divided Czechoslovakia.” The article began like this:
“In the mythology of World War II there is one clear scoundrel - Hitler, and numerous victims of his criminal tendencies. But for some reason Poland got into the role of the very first (and perhaps the main!) of them. How many tears have been shed by Polish historians over the treacherous attack of the Wehrmacht on their defenseless “oichizna”. How many films have been made about noble Polish officers! How many songs have been written about beautiful lancers with lances who went to last trip for tanks Guderian to the cry of their Baseks and Maryseks!
Alas, it's only fake sheepskin an insolent Polish hyena, who rushed to rob someone else's property, was left without a tail and raised a whine all over the world. By the way, it was not I who was the first to call Poland a “hyena”, but a great humanist, democrat and a bit of an imperialist (how could we not?) Winston Churchill. It is he, the most charming Winnie the Pooh of British political thought, who expressed himself in his memoirs about the current “Euro-lawyer” of Ukraine: “Poland is the same Poland that just six months ago, with the greed of a hyena, took part in the robbery and destruction of the Czechoslovak state!”
The indignation of a cognac and cigar lover is easy to understand. He recalled the security guarantees in the event of a German attack that the Polish government demanded from Great Britain in the summer of 1939. premiere of Rydz-Smigly, who had just taken part together with the Germans in the division of Czechoslovakia."
And here’s what Sir Winston Churchill, the “Winnie the Pooh” of British political thought, wrote about Poland back in 1938:
“The heroic character traits of the Polish people should not force us to close our eyes to their recklessness and ingratitude, which over the course of several centuries caused them immeasurable suffering. In 1919, this was a country that the Allied victory, after generations of partition and slavery, had transformed into an independent republic and one of the major European powers. Now, in 1938, because of such an insignificant issue as Teshin ( meaning Cieszyn Silesia — S.D.) the Poles broke with all their friends in France, in England and in the USA, who had returned them to a single national life and whose help they were soon to need so badly. We saw how now, while the reflection of the power of Germany was falling on them, they hastened to seize their share in the plunder and ruin of Czechoslovakia. It must be considered a mystery and tragedy of European history that a people capable of any heroism, some of whose representatives are talented, valiant, and charming, constantly displays such shortcomings in almost all aspects of their public life. Glory in times of rebellion and sorrow; infamy and shame during periods of triumph. The bravest of the brave have too often been led by the foulest of the foul! And yet, there have always been two Polands: one fought for the truth, and the other groveled in meanness” (quoted from Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Book 1. M., 1991, p. 147).
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Nevertheless, the Poles, in the words of the famous satirical writer Mikhail Zoshchenko, “harboured rudeness” and, when the Germans demanded the Sudetenland from Prague, they decided that the right opportunity had come to get their way. On January 14, 1938, Hitler received Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Beck. “The Czech state in its current form cannot be preserved, because it represents, as a result of the disastrous policy of the Czechs, Central Europe unsafe place - communist hotbed", - said the leader of the Third Reich. Of course, as stated in the official Polish report on the meeting, "Mr. Beck warmly supported the Fuhrer". On September 27, a repeated demand followed. Anti-Czech hysteria was whipped up in the country. On behalf of the so-called “Union of Silesian Insurgents” in Warsaw, recruitment into the “Cieszynski” was launched completely openly. volunteer corps" The formed detachments of “volunteers” were sent to the Czechoslovak border, where they staged armed provocations and sabotage.
So, on the night of September 25, in the town of Konské near Třinec, the Poles threw hand grenades and fired at houses in which Czechoslovak border guards were located, as a result of which two buildings burned down. After a two-hour battle, the attackers retreated to Polish territory. Similar clashes occurred that night in a number of other places in the Teshin region. The next night the Poles raided railway station Freeshtat, fired at her and threw grenades at her.
On September 27, throughout the night, rifle and machine gun fire, grenade explosions, etc. were heard in almost all areas of the Cieszyn region. The bloodiest clashes, as reported by the Polish Telegraph Agency, were observed in the vicinity of Bohumin, Cieszyn and Jablunkov, in the towns of Bystrice, Konska and Skrzechen. Armed groups of “rebels” repeatedly attacked Czechoslovakian weapons depots, and Polish planes violated the Czechoslovakian border every day.
The Poles closely coordinated their actions with the Germans. Polish diplomats in London and Paris insisted on an equal approach to solving the Sudeten and Cieszyn problems, while the Polish and German military agreed on the line of demarcation of troops in the event of an invasion of Czechoslovakia. At the same time, one could observe touching scenes of “combat brotherhood” between German fascists and Polish nationalists. Thus, according to a report from Prague on September 29, a gang of 20 people armed with automatic weapons attacked the Czechoslovak border post near Grgava. The attack was repulsed, the attackers fled to Poland, and one of them, being wounded, was captured. During interrogation, the captured bandit said that in their detachment there were many Germans living in Poland.
As is known, Soviet Union expressed his readiness to come to the aid of Czechoslovakia, both against Germany and against Poland. In response to September 8-11 Polish-Soviet border the largest military maneuvers in the history of the revived Polish state were organized, in which 5 infantry and 1 cavalry division, 1 motorized brigade, as well as aviation. As one would expect, the “reds” advancing from the east were completely defeated by the “blues”. The maneuvers ended with a grandiose 7-hour parade in Lutsk, which was personally received by the “supreme leader” Marshal Rydz-Smigly.
In turn, with Soviet side On September 23 it was stated that if Polish troops enter Czechoslovakia, the USSR denounces the non-aggression pact it concluded with Poland in 1932.
As mentioned above, on the night of September 29-30, 1938, the infamous Munich Agreement. In an effort to “pacify” Hitler at any cost, England and France cynically surrendered their ally Czechoslovakia to him. On the same day, September 30, Warsaw presented Prague with a new ultimatum, demanding immediate satisfaction of its claims. As a result, on October 1, Czechoslovakia ceded to Poland an area where 80 thousand Poles and 120 thousand Czechs lived. However, the main acquisition was the industrial potential of the captured territory. At the end of 1938, the enterprises located there produced almost 41% of the pig iron produced in Poland and almost 47% of the steel.
As Churchill wrote about this in his memoirs, Poland “with the greed of a hyena she took part in the robbery and destruction of the Czechoslovak state”. An equally flattering zoological comparison is given in his book by the previously quoted American researcher Baldwin: “Poland and Hungary, like vultures, tore off pieces of a dying divided state.”.
Today in Poland they are trying to forget this page of their history. Thus, the authors of the book “The History of Poland from Ancient Times to the Present Day,” published in Warsaw in 1995, Alicja Dybkowska, Malgorzata Zaryn and Jan Zharyn managed not to mention at all their country’s participation in the partition of Czechoslovakia:
“The interests of Poland were indirectly jeopardized by the policy of concessions by Western states to Hitler. So, in 1935 he introduced universal military service in Germany, thereby violating the Versailles agreements; in 1936 Hitler's troops occupied the Rhineland demilitarized zone, and in 1938 his army entered Austria. The next target of German expansion was Czechoslovakia.
Despite the protests of its government, in September 1938 in Munich, France, Great Britain and Italy signed a treaty with Germany giving the Third Reich the right to occupy the Czech Sudetenland, inhabited by a German minority. In the face of what was happening, it became clear to Polish diplomats that now it was the turn to violate the Versailles regulations on the Polish issue.”.
Of course, is it possible to be indignant at the participation of the USSR in the “fourth partition of Poland” if it becomes known that they themselves are in the dust? And Molotov’s phrase about Poland as an ugly brainchild, so shocking to the progressive public Treaty of Versailles, it turns out, is just a copy of Pilsudski’s earlier statement about "the artificially and monstrously created Czechoslovak Republic".
Belarus expressed extreme concern about the intention of right-wing radicals in Poland to hold a new march in the border town of Hainowka. This was stated by the press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Mironchik.
Minsk is alarmed by the “memory march” aimed at glorifying the “damned soldiers.” This is the name given in Poland to militants of the terrorist nationalist underground who acted after the liberation of Poland in the interests of Western intelligence services. In addition to terrorist acts against representatives of the PPR authorities, employees law enforcement and military personnel of the Polish Army and Soviet army, they also carried out genocide on national and religious principles, killing Rusyns, Ukrainians, Belarusians and Lemkos, Orthodox and Uniates.
“One of the figures to whom they want to honor is the leader of the gang, Romuald Rice, nicknamed Brown, he is a war criminal,” Mironchik said at a briefing, recalling that a similar march was already held last year.
“Rice is responsible for dozens of Belarusian villages burned along with their inhabitants, hundreds of killed and maimed civilians, including children, women and the elderly. They were destroyed or mutilated only because they belonged to the Belarusian ethnic group and had the Orthodox religion,” the press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry emphasized.
Mironchik noted that in Polish city Gainovka, where the majority of the population has Belarusian roots, “descendants of the victims of Bury’s crimes are still alive.”
It's not just that. The choice of the nearest border area with Belarus for provocation is a direct challenge and message of Polish extremists neighboring country talking about claims on her western lands.
Let us recall that nationalists carry out similar actions on the border with Ukraine, as a sign of “disagreement” with its sovereignty over Galicia and Volyn. So you can remember the “March of the Eaglets of Przemysl and Lviv,” which takes place in the city of Przemysl, bordering Ukraine, under the slogans “Death to Ukrainians” and “Przemysl and Lviv are always Polish.”
Poland is becoming one of the main destabilizing factors in Eastern Europe, threatening the security of the region. This country not only creates a situation of conflict with most of its neighbors, but also clearly expresses territorial or financial claims against some of them.
They are trying to “justify” claims to something else in Poland various kinds speculation on historical topics, interpretation of the past in the spirit of radical nationalism. The recently adopted amendment to the law on the Institute of National Remembrance, which introduces criminal liability for denial of a crime, serves these purposes. Ukrainian nationalists and accusations of Poles being complicit in the Holocaust. If, with the help of a ban on the study of Polish collaboration, Warsaw is trying to protect itself from potential lawsuits for the complicity of Polish citizens in the extermination of Jews, then everything is not so simple with Bandera’s followers.
The point is that this legislative norm is aimed not only, and not so much at perpetuating the memory of the victims of ethnic cleansing carried out by the UPA during the Second World War on Western Ukraine, but also to “justify” Warsaw’s “rights” to the “Eastern Crosses” territories “watered with Polish blood.” This is how Polish extremists call the ancient Russian lands of the Galicia-Volyn principality, now part of Ukraine.
Let us recall that these territories came under the control of Warsaw after the defeat of the Western Ukrainian War in 1919. people's republic, and Poland imposed a brutal police regime on them, subjecting indigenous people discrimination based on nationality and religion. Russian and Ukrainian language were banned, the lands of non-Poles were en masse alienated and transferred to the “siegers” (Polish colonizers of the region). Thousands of people of the Orthodox and Uniate confessions were thrown into concentration camps under far-fetched pretexts. The gendarmes, lancers and “siegers” unleashed real terror against the non-Polish population - mass floggings of entire villages and “exemplary” rapes of women and children became the favorite instrument of “pacification” (“pacification” - that’s what the Poles called a set of punitive actions to suppress civil disobedience on Russian lands ).
All these crimes of the Polish authorities, which fully fall under the definition of “genocide,” further worsened the already difficult Polish-Ukrainian relations, and created the preconditions for the tragedy called the “Volyn Massacre.”
Of course, the atrocities of the gendarmes and “siegers” in no way justify the crimes of the UPA “rezuns” against women and children, but they say that the Poles deny historical truth, strive to present their rather predatory state as an innocent victim of everyone around them.
Let's also return to the “damned soldiers”. Their “fight for freedom” was no different from the methods of Derlivanger’s grenadiers or Bandera’s executioners. In order not to be accused of bias, let us quote the veteran of the Home Army, Stefan Dembski, who in his acclaimed book “Executor” describes in detail the everyday life of “fighters against the communist dictatorship”:
“...we chose villages where Polish population, because thanks to this it was easier for us to finish off the Ukrainians. There was no pity, no apology in these actions. I couldn't complain about my comrades either. Only “Twardy,” who had personal grievances against the Ukrainians, surpassed himself. When we entered a Ukrainian house, our “Vilusko” became literally insane... “Louis” and I mostly stood under the doors and windows, and the semi-conscious “Tvardy”... rushed at the petrified Ukrainians and cut them into pieces... Once three Ukrainian families gathered in the same house, and “Tvardy” decided to finish them off “fun”. He put on the hat he found on the shelf, took the violin from the table, and began to play it. He divided the Ukrainians into four groups and, at the sound of music, ordered them to sing “Here is a hill, there is a valley, in the valley there will be Ukraine...”. And under the threat of my pistol, the poor fellows sang, even as the glass in the windows shook. It was theirs The last song. After the end of the concert, “Twardy” got to work so quickly that “Louis” and I ran into the hallway so that we wouldn’t be mistakenly stabbed to death...”
The march in Gainowka suggests that the current Polish Nazis consider themselves successors and continuers of the work of these bloody maniacs, and are ready to implement their methods in relation to neighboring peoples– Belarusians, Ukrainians, Russians, Lithuanians. And hatred of the Germans today is again being intensively cultivated in Poland, which has made its state ideology the doctrine of the national exclusivity of the Poles and the universal guilt of those around them before them.
At one time, Winston Churchill called Poland “the hyena of Europe.” However, this rather accurate description did not frighten the Anglo-Saxons at all and did not prevent them from using the anger, greed and stupidity of the Polish leadership to incite another war in Europe.
Today, the Poles, who have forgotten nothing and learned nothing, seem to be trying to be used in a similar way.
— 20.03.2012
This video proudly walked around the Internet for several days.
There was no need to guess about its purpose a lot of work. The commentators were lethargic.
And the enthusiasm of the “fake film makers” somehow quickly faded away.
Haven't had it yet Soviet state that military power in 1939, to show it off at parades!
And the tactics of “intimidation” are not in honor of the Russians!
Reminds me of that fake
Well, that's a decent answer...
HYENA OF EASTERN EUROPE
"THE STATE MAKES THE NATION, AND NOT THE NATION MAKES THE STATE"
Jozef Piłsudski
We (Poland) could find a place on the Reich side almost the same as Italy
and, for sure, better than Hungary or Romania.
As a result, we would be in Moscow, where Adolf Hitler with Rydz-Smigly would host the parade
victorious Polish-German troops"
(Polish professor Pavel Wieczorkiewicz).
Post about the “Soviet-German parade” in Brest in 1939 - video fake
This “parade” supposedly “proves” that the USSR was a “loyal ally of Nazi Germany”
and meanly tortured the kind and fluffy Poles.
The pact between the USSR and Germany of 1939 has been in use for almost half a century
“black propaganda” to prove the thesis about “Russia’s aggressiveness”,
and as a basis for constant arrogantly boorish “claims” against it from Poland. 
Hitler and Polish Foreign Minister Beck
Consider Poland from 1933 to 1939, when the Nazis became the dominant force in Germany.
This post will prove that the USSR’s position towards Poland in 1939 was completely justified.
The Polish elite, right up to September 1, 1939, planned to do exactly the same thing with the USSR,
what the USSR did with it later - dismemberment and subsequent destruction and hoped
to a military alliance with Hitler's Germany.
The Polish leadership behaved in exactly the same way towards its neighbors - Lithuania and Czechoslovakia.
Until the very last moment, the Polish leadership did not stop the closest contacts
with the German Nazis and made far-reaching plans for a “war with Russia.” 
Hitler-Pilsudski Pact
In 1934 German Nazis and the Polish leadership concluded
"Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and Poland"
also called the Pilsudski-Hitler Pact.
It, just like the Soviet-German Pact of 1939, contained the principles of non-intervention
into each other’s internal affairs and stipulated by the so-called. "areas of interest" in Europe,
in particular in Czechoslovakia and the Baltic states.
photo from the signing of the pact.
Goebbels and Piłsudski
The first photo with J. Pilsudski, Beck in Warsaw. Other photos of his visit to the city of Krakow in June 1934. 
It is clear here that it was a warm meeting with flowers, with an interesting cultural program in museums,
historical places, with a banquet attended by famous Polish statesmen. 
Here is a photo of the dinner party in honor of Joseph Goebbels with the Polish Sejm
with the participation of deputies and Polish leaders. 
After Piłsudski's death friendly relations two states did not end:
On January 31, 1938, the head of the Nazi police visited Warsaw General Dalyuge,
in September 1938 – General Zamorsky(chief of the Polish police)
was invited by Nazi friends to the congress of the National Socialist Party of Germany,
took place in Nuremberg. On December 15, the German Minister of Justice visited Warsaw Herman Frank,
and on February 18, 1939 - head of the SS and chief chief of the Gestapo Heinrich Himmler.
Polish Foreign Minister Beck in Germany:
The Polish delegation laying flowers at the eternal flame to the fallen German soldiers
Poland and Czechoslovakia
The most clearly aggressive plans of the pre-war Polish elite are visible in the example
relations of the Polish leadership towards Czechoslovakia.
Immediately after World War I, territorial dispute between Poland and Czechoslovakia
worsened in Cieszyn Silesia.
This area, around which the dispute erupted, is rich in coal,
was the most industrialized region in all of Austria-Hungary.
An armed conflict began, and in 1920, Czechoslovak President Tomas Masaryk declared,
that if the Cieszyn conflict is resolved not in favor of Czechoslovakia, his country will intervene
in the recently started Russian-Polish war.
Poland, frightened by the prospect of a war on two fronts, made concessions.
what happened in Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1938 in chronological order.
Beck and the German generals
February 23, 1938.
Beck, in negotiations with Goering, declares Poland’s readiness to take German interests into account
in Austria and emphasized Poland's interest "in the Czech problem."
August 11, 1938- in a conversation with Lipsky, the German side expressed understanding
Poland's interest in Soviet territory Ukraine.
September 19, 1938- Lipski brings to Hitler's attention the opinion of the Polish government,
that Czechoslovakia is an "artificial entity" and supports Hungarian claims
in relation to the territory Carpathian Rus'.
September 20, 1938- Hitler tells Lipsky that in the event of a military conflict
Poland and Czechoslovakia because of the Cieszyn region, the Reich will side with Poland, which is beyond the line
German interests, Poland has completely free hands, what he sees solution to the Jewish problem
by emigrating to the colonies in agreement with Poland, Hungary and Romania.
September 24, 1938. Newspaper "Pravda" 1938. September 24. N264 (7589). on S.5. publishes an article
"Polish fascists are preparing a putsch in Cieszyn Silesia."
Later, on the night of September 25, in the town of Konskie near Třinec, the Poles threw hand grenades at
and fired at houses in which Czechoslovak border guards were located, as a result of which two buildings burned down.
After a two-hour battle, the attackers retreated into Polish territory.
Similar clashes occurred that night in a number of other places in the Teshin region.
September 25, 1938. The Poles raided the Frishtat railway station,
They fired at her and threw grenades at her.
September 27, 1938. The Polish government makes a renewed demand
about the “return” of the Teshin region to her.
Throughout the night, rifle and machine gun fire was heard in almost all areas of the Teshin region,
grenade explosions, etc. The bloodiest clashes, as reported by the Polish Telegraph Agency,
were observed in the vicinity of Bohumin, Teshin and Jablunkov, in the towns of Bystrice, Kon'ska and Skrzechen.
Armed groups of "rebels" repeatedly attacked Czechoslovak arms depots,
Polish planes violated the Czechoslovak border every day.
In the newspaper "Pravda" 1938. September 27. N267 (7592) an article is published on page 1
"The unbridled impudence of the Polish fascists."
September 28, 1938. Armed provocations continue.
In the newspaper "Pravda" 1938. September 28. N268 (7593) On S.5. article is published
"Provocations of Polish fascists."
September 29, 1938. Polish diplomats in London and Paris insist
on “an equal approach to solving the Sudeten and Cieszyn problems”, Polish and German military
agree on the line of demarcation of troops in the event of an invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Czech newspapers describe touching scenes of “combat brotherhood” between German fascists
and Polish nationalists.
A Czechoslovakian border post near Grgava was attacked by a gang of 20 people armed with automatic weapons.
The attack was repulsed, the attackers fled to Poland, and one of them, being wounded, was captured.
During interrogation, the captured bandit said that in their detachment there were many Germans living in Poland. 
This photo is for every Polish home!
Touching handshake between Polish Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigła and German attaché Colonel
Bogislawa von Studnitz at the Independence Day parade in Warsaw on November 11, 1938
December 28, 1938. In a conversation with a counselor at the German Embassy in Poland
Rudolf von Schelia with the newly appointed Polish envoy to Iran J. Karszo-Sedlevsky, the latter declares: “The political perspective for European East clear.
In a few years, Germany will be at war with the Soviet Union, and Poland will support,
voluntarily or forcedly, Germany in this war.
It is better for Poland to definitely take the side of Germany before the conflict,
since the territorial interests of Poland in the west and the political goals of Poland in the east,
primarily in Ukraine, can only be achieved through a previously reached Polish-German agreement.
He, Karsho-Sedlewski, will subordinate his activities as the Polish envoy in Tehran to the implementation of this great Eastern concept, since it is necessary in the end to convince and motivate also
Persians and Afghans play an active role in future war against the Soviets."
Goering in Poland
The attitude of pre-war Poland towards Russia
Polish position, towards Russia and the hopes of the Polish elite for the German Nazis,
as documents show, it was not a spontaneous decision, it was formed over the years.
Even during the visits of “Nazi No. 2”, G. Goering, to Warsaw in 1935 and 1937
The parties reached an agreement that Poland will support Germany's demands to lift restrictions
in terms of weapons and the idea of the Anschluss of Austria.
Germany, in turn, expressed its readiness, together with Poland, to counteract
policy of the Soviet Union in Europe.
In a conversation with Marshal Rydz-Smigly, Goering stated that “Not only Bolshevism is dangerous, but Russia as such”
and that “in this sense, the interests of Poland and Germany coincide.” 
Goering and Polish President Moscicki hunting in Belovezhskaya Pushcha
August 31, 1937 The Polish General Staff issued directive No. 2304/2/37, which states,
what's the ultimate the goal of Polish policy is “the destruction of all Russia”,
and one of the effective tools for achieving it is named inciting separatism
in the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia
using, in particular, military intelligence capabilities.
It would seem that in the threatening situation into which Poland was crawling,
the priorities would have to be different.
And in general, what does this have to do with the security of the country? Caucasus?
Nevertheless, it was planned to concentrate personnel, operational and financial
resources to strengthen work with Caucasian emigration of a separatist persuasion, having as
the ultimate goal of destabilization using all forces and means, including instruments of secret war,
internal political situation in this part of the Soviet Union, which
during the war it becomes the deep rear of the Red Army.
These are the approaches and absolutely groundless hopes for a German-Polish anti-Soviet alliance
and led to the fact that the Anglo-French-Soviet negotiations between the military delegations had to be curtailed
just a week before the start of the war, the first victim of which was Poland.
Therefore, the telegrams of the Polish ambassador in Washington, who,
Having the instructions of his government, he assured US Secretary of State K. Hull that Warsaw did not see itself as a threat from Germany.
Moreover, he was irritated that some American politicians
consider the Soviet Union and its army to be the only force that can resist the Wehrmacht
in the event of Germany starting a war (telegrams from E. Pototsky to the Foreign Ministry on November 8 and December 15, 1937).
In October 1938, Ambassador in Berlin Yu. Lipsky, in an upbeat tone, informed Minister Yu. Beck about
“more than favorable” attitude of the top officials of the Reich towards Poland and about highly appreciated its policies by the Fuhrer personally. 
Friendly visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nazi Reich, adviser to Adolf Hitler
By foreign policy, Standartenführer SS Joachim von Ribbentrop to Poland. 
From Angola to Antarctica
Polish policy outside the “eastern territories” was no less “peaceful.”
The “plans for Polish colonies” looked especially absurd and grotesque.
Poland seriously believed that its status great power”requires colonies in Africa and Asia,
so that it’s “like everyone else!”
For this purpose, in October 1930, either a government or a public organization was created
The Maritime and Colonial League (Liga Morska I Kolonialna), of which almost a million Poles – future colonists – became members. The Poles rushed to look for empty lands suitable for arable land and seize them,
how did it happen in Brazil, Liberia and Mozambique.
Friendly visit of the Italian fascist Gian Galeazzo Ciano to Poland.
February 1939.
IN Angola they began to develop farmland, but plans to create plantations
was not destined to come true - the Portuguese government, concerned about such an unexpected development of events,
complicated immigration procedures in the colonies, and also began to focus quite
a lot of unnecessary attention to Polish settlers.
As a result most of Polish planters were forced to leave Angola after 1938.
Concerning, Madagascar, then Foreign Minister Beck begged from France
permission to use this island for the resettlement of Polish Jews at the request of “world Jewry”.
Work began to boil and an important delegation visited the island.
However, Madagascar was not destined to become the second Israel - the war began,
which buried these plans.
Poland was keenly interested and Antarctica- in Washington just before the war
the Poles were persistently interested in how the Americans would perceive their appearance on this continent.
In Poland itself, public holidays began to be organized - Sea Week and Colonial Days,
where the Poles were instilled with a taste for colonialism.
Poland pestered the League of Nations with a request to transfer part (up to 9%) to Poland
German colonies (due to the fact that Poland was partially the “successor” of Germany in terms of territories) -
Togo and Cameroon"which no one needs anyway."
The result of the entire campaign 1936-37 appeared issued by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
"Colonial Theses of Poland".
The leadership of the USSR in August 1939 acted deliberately and correctly.
He hit his enemy with the weapon that he planned to use against Russia - an agreement with Germany.