Vladimir Putin's dictatorship continues to wholeheartedly embrace the lies repeated for decades by Soviet propaganda.<\/p>\n
Hitler and Stalin agreed to divide part of Europe in a secret protocol<\/big><\/p>\n This Wednesday, September 17, is the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of the eastern half of Poland in 1939<\/strong>. An invasion that was carried out in an agreement with Nazi Germany<\/a>, after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed on August 23, 1939<\/a>, which included a secret protocol by which Hitler and Stalin divided up Eastern Europe<\/strong>, agreeing on which part of Poland each of those totalitarian dictatorships would keep and awarding the USSR both Finland<\/strong> (invaded by Stalin on 30 from November 1939 such as Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Romanian regions of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina<\/strong> (invaded and annexed by the USSR in 1940).<\/p>\n This division of countries was embodied in a secret additional protocol to that pact<\/a>. The Western Allies found the documents of this secret protocol in Germany<\/strong> at the end of the war, finally revealing the alliance between Hitler and Stalin in 1939, but the USSR denied it and continued to deny it until August 1989<\/strong>, when Argumenty I Fakty, a publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, finally published the document<\/a> 50 years after it was signed, as part of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of openness.<\/p>\n The Kremlin's lies to justify the Soviet invasion of Poland<\/big><\/p>\n Despite these facts, Vladimir Putin's dictatorship has revived the lies of Stalin's propaganda<\/strong>. Today, at 2:31 PM CET, the Russian Foreign Ministry, via its Telegram channel, justified the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939<\/a>, claiming that on September 17 of that year, \"the Red Army launched a military operation in Poland\u2019s eastern regions, also known as the Red Army\u2019s Polish Campaign.\"<\/em> Significantly, the Kremlin is using the same terminology it uses to disguise its unprovoked aggression against Ukraine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In its message, a pamphlet lacking any historical rigor and concealing key facts<\/strong>, the Kremlin states the following:<\/p>\n \"Certain (pseudo)academic circles and mainstream media in the West<\/strong> intentionally promote an excessively biased interpretation of these events seeking to equate the Third Reich and the USSR and cast our country as an aggressor<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Kremlin also claims that the German invasion of Poland \"compelled the Soviet leadership to take decisive action aimed at eliminating the threats emanating from the Polish bridgehead seized by the Reich<\/strong>.\"<\/em> After a further round of propaganda, the Kremlin offers the following conclusion: \"the advance of the Nazi troops towards the western borders of our country was halted.\"<\/em><\/p>\n The joint German-Soviet parade in Brze\u015b\u0107 Litewski<\/big><\/p>\n In reality, it was all a farce previously agreed upon between Germany and the USSR<\/strong>, as revealed by the telegrams exchanged by both dictatorships at the time<\/a>. The idea that the Red Army invaded Poland to stop the Germans is graphically refuted by a fact that some continue to deny: the joint parade held on September 22 by Germans and Soviets in the Polish town of Brze\u015b\u0107 Litewski<\/a> (today Brest-Litovsk, Belarus), to celebrate their joint victory over Poland:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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