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Originally Posted by volodya61

Yes, Gabriele .. I studied the history not only in the official Soviet sources of 80s.. and I know more about Pact than it's represented in wiki.. but if I remember correctly no one is called it aggression.. if it was aggression why didn't the Polish allies declared war on the Soviet Union?

Yes.. it sounds a bit better..

PS: In any case, I think that this subject is very complicated and has a lot of nuances that we do not know.. and will never know..

Yes, my friend it is very complicated.

Though admitting that both Nazi Germany and USSR were harsh regimes, I am obviously (or maybe not so obviously, but now you know it anyway) much more ideologically incline to excuse Soviet "mistakes" than Nazi ones, so to speak. Believe me, I am totally immune from all the ridiculous anti-communism and pro-capitalism propaganda that even in my country spread from the end of WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall (and which is still ridden by many anachronistic right-hand parties in Europe, including Italy).

Nonetheless we got to admit that, despite the fact that they were committed in the name of noble ideals, Soviet crimes weren't in many cases lesser fierce than the ones perpetrated by the worst dictatorships, and that your leaders betrayed the same ideals which had inspired the October Revolution. Admitting it costs to me almost as much as it probably does to you.

Talking more specifically about the Soviet invasion of Poland, I know about it only little more than it is written on the Wikipedia article or on school text books, but I remember having seen a documentary (and a couple of movies) describing the atrocities committed by Soviet occuping forces against the defenceless Polish population. What is more hideous, is that Soviet Regime tried to conceal them as Nazi crimes, when they weren't.

But this is bringing us too far. Our initial point was the Soviet invasion of Poland. Fierce or not, its happening and its being planned together with the Nazi beasts shortly before the war actually broke out, is an historical fact which cannot be denied.

Sorry for the off topic