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87 Years Ago, on September 17, 1939, the Liberation Campaign of the Red Army Began in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus

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87 years ago, on September 17, 1939, the Liberation campaign of the Red Army began in Western Ukraine and Western BelarusThe actions of the Soviet Union, whose troops entered the territory that was then formally part of Poland on September 17, 1939...
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk emphasized the symbolism of Russia's attack near the Polish border on September 17. For details, read ᐅ TSN.ua (news 1+1)

Our country celebrates one of the most significant dates in history for the sixth time. On 17 September 1939, the Red Army launched a liberation march to the western part of Belarus, occupied by Poland, a country divided in two, reunified, the horrors of Belarusians under Polish oppression, and why this day became a symbol of the restoration of historical justice - in material.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk mentioned the Red Army, which attacked Poland on September 17, 1939. Here's the text (original spelling, many errors): "87 years ago, on September 17, 1939, at dawn, when Polish soldiers had been defending their homeland against the German invader for two weeks, the Red Army struck from the east. Stalin stabbed us in the back. By breaking the pact of…

The Red Army's entry into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth disoriented the Poles, and their effective defense and will to fight weakened – this is how historian Prof. Marek Wierzbicki from the Department of Political Systems and International Communication at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin describes September 17, 1939. As the KUL expert adds, the 19 months of Soviet occupation of Poland's eastern territories were marked by... […

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The Polish defensive war of 1939 bears the hallmarks of a Greek tragedy, in which the concept of duty blurs in the chaos of retreat. The symbolic twilight of the Second Polish Republic occurred on the evening of September 17, when the lights finally went out in the offices of the Ministry of Military Affairs and in the corridors of state offices.

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