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Did Poland bring on its own destruction in 1939? [71]
Define normal!
You get up. Eat breakfast. Take a shower. Go to work. Come back. Eat dinner. Annoy kids. Read. Listen. Go to bed. Notice the absence of any anti-government activities or associations. So secret meetings, no memos or manifestos, no spying for the Americans, either.
but it doesn't mean that Poland wasn't occupied by the Soviet Union.
How could a man from Mars know that Poland was "occupied" by the Soviets? He couldn't because we couldn't, either. But he would know instantly that Poland was occupied by the Germans.
I don't deny that Poland was under Soviet control. With the Americans close by, they would be stupid not to stay in Poland. I object to using the terms that are forever connected with the Germans. Like occupation. Just as I object to the term Nazis as an attempt to whitewash the criminality of the entire nation that cheerfully supported the war - until Stalingrad.
Again, nobody in Poland ever used the term 'Soviet occupation" or even German occupation. It was okupacja. There was no need to add "German" as it was self-evident and the only one known to the Poles.
If you said "during occupation", nobody sane would ask which one did you mean - German or the Soviet.Yes, there are different shades of occupations. Soviet "occupation" of Poland was such that the use of the word diminishes and insults the victims of the real occupation by the barbarians.