77 years ago, September 17, 1939, the Red army defeated the Polish – Soviet act on non-aggression and invaded the territory of the Republic of Poland, performing the agreement contained in a secret Protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The result of the Alliance between two totalitarian systems was cutting a lonely IV of Poland.
Cry one ran along the border/ And before zmilkł zagrzmiały works/ It’s the battle with the speed of storm/ Red Army wyruszała is one of the fragments of “September Ballads” Jack I’m. Kaczmarski, memory 17 September – a tragic day in the history of humanity Russian. 17 September 1939. about h 4.00, the Soviet Union not only defeated, contained in the Moscow non-aggression Pact from 1932, but struck the final blow to the defense in front of the III Reich to Poland.
Final blow
On the road about 1 million soldiers of the Soviet Union, suddenly became a few departments of the Protection Corps of the Borderland and small troops – including the Polish side in the East was less than 30 thousand. soldiers. In addition, the situation was complicated by the orders of the Commander-in-chief Rydza-Śmigłego, issued immediately after the Soviet aggression, which did not reach most of the Polish units. They sounded:
“the Soviet Union invaded. Ordered a General withdrawal to Hungary and abbreviated ways. With the Bolsheviks not to fight, if you attack them or attempt to disarm the troops. The task of Warsaw and cities, which are to be protected from the Germans, without any changes. The city, which suited the Bolsheviks must negotiate in the garrisons of Hungary or Romania."
on 17 September 1939. influencing the lands of the Commonwealth, the Red Army behaved as brutally as the German army. All forces of the red Army focused in three planes against the Commonwealth amounted to approx. of 1.5 million soldiers, more than 6 thousand tanks and about. 1800 aircraft. The Russians have committed many crimes-killing prisoners and civilians masakrując. A cruel fate awaited the inhabitants living in the territories occupied by the Russians, the intelligentsia was necessary to kill or suspended in the interior of Russia, closed schools and universities, ciemiężenie was so great that, of receivers, in two years the Germans were greeted as liberators.
Poles remember
Today in Warsaw and other cities the automobile will be the infamous anniversary. Before lunch the President Andrzej Duda will lay a wreath and light a candle in front of the Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East in Warsaw. In the evening at the same venue will host a celebration of the anniversary with the participation of DEFENSE Minister Anthony of Makarevicha and President of Warsaw Hanna, Gronkiewicz-waltz.
Source: 1939.pl/wprost.pl/rp.pl/wikipedia.pl
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