On a day like today, on September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany began the invasion of Poland, starting World War II.<\/p>\n
The secret pact between Germany and the USSR to invade Poland<\/big><\/p>\n A few days later, on September 17, the USSR joined the aggression, invading the eastern fringe of Poland. Significantly, the communist parties<\/strong>, who had coined the term \"anti-fascism\" a few years earlier to express their rejection of movements such as German National Socialism, initiated a campaign to oppose the war, blaming from it not to the invaders, but to France and the United Kingdom<\/strong>, for having come to the aid of Poland and trying to sabotage the war effort of both countries to stop Hitler.<\/p>\n These slogans were launched by the communists during the invasion of Poland in September 1939<\/a> and also during the soviet invasion of Finland<\/a> two months later. In both cases they accused France and the United Kingdom of wanting to end the USSR<\/strong>, despite the fact that the French and British governments declared war on Germany but not on the Soviet Union, perhaps ignoring that < a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/09\/01\/les-unio-el-odio-a-la-democracia-un-revelador-telegrama-sobre-el-pacto-nazisovietico-de-1939\/\">the Russian occupation of eastern Poland had been previously agreed upon by Hitler and Stalin<\/a> in the so-called Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, signed on August 23, 1939.<\/p>\n The denial of that pact by the USSR and the slogans issued by Moscow<\/big><\/p>\n That pact was discovered in 1945, when the Allies found in Germany the documents of the secret protocol signed in 1939 by Germany and the USSR. The Soviet dictatorship continued to deny it until 1989.<\/strong> Still today in Russia it is still illegal to talk about that pact and affirm a historical fact<\/a>: that Germany The US and the USSR acted as allied powers<\/strong> between the signing of that pact in August 1939 and the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941. Today we also know that<\/strong> los Communist parties launched those slogans against France and the United Kingdom following express orders from Moscow<\/a>, issued on September 9, 1939 by Georgi Dimitrov, Secretary General of the Communist International.<\/p>\n History repeats itself in the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/big><\/p>\n It is difficult not to make parallels between the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the invasion of Ukraine in 2022<\/strong>, with the difference that the latter country has not been invaded by two different powers on two fronts. It is also very difficult not to see the similarities between the communist propaganda to demobilize Franco-British aid to Poland and the pro-Russian propaganda to demobilize Western aid to Ukraine<\/strong>. Both are based on the same guidelines: demonize the invaded country based on lies, demonize the countries that come to the aid of the invaded country - falsely presenting them as aggressors - and presenting the Russian invader as a victim<\/strong> to which has had no choice but to react to Western \"imperialism\".<\/p>\n What now remains to be revealed is how certain threads are moved<\/strong>. And I say \"how\" and not \"who\" moves them, because now it is as evident as in 1939 that pro-Russian propaganda follows the slogans of the Kremlin<\/strong>. The interesting thing will be to know the channels through which these slogans have circulated and the resources that have been used in them. Today we know that the Communist Party of the USSR financed parties communists from other countries with figures in the millions.<\/a> What seemed like a disciplined subordination to Moscow's slogans out of ideological fidelity was, in reality, the fruit of a shower of rubles. Today we also know that in countries like Slovakia<\/a> and Bulgaria<\/a> the Kremlin has paid propagandists<\/strong> to spread its influence in the West. It is only a matter of time before that same information comes to light in other countries.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n
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