The Polish armed forces are training citizen volunteers how to be armed partisans, firing rifles and donning gas masks.
That’s… not great. The program is apparently popular, so they are expanding its capacity so that every adult male receives the training.
Is that why Soviets attacked Finland in November of 1939 and invaded Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in 1940? One more thing, the Polish military inflicted heavy losses on German armor units and the after action reports from the German field commanders showed their deficiencies, which later proved to be 100% correct. The French and BEF fell apart faster on one front with better weapons and equipment than Poland dealing with two fronts.
Way to prove you haven’t read my whole comment. I already answered to why the soviets “carved Eastern Europe” including quotes from western politicians at the time who were very aware of the invasions of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (i.e. Churchill in 1944 or the US ambassador to the USSR in 1941). The Soviet politicians admitted as much:
“The Soviet Government, in concluding the Non-Aggression Treaty with Germany, first and foremost secured peace for our country for the foreseeable future. We have moved our defensive lines far to the west. …If the war in the West continues for a long time, we stand to remain apart from it and gain those extra months—or perhaps a year or more—to strengthen our defenses. The old frontier, which was indefensible, has been replaced by a new one, affording us far greater security in the event that war is forced upon us later” October 31, 1939 (Molotov and Stalin to the Supreme Soviet), Soviet Foreign Policy, 1939–1941: Documents and Materials (a Soviet-era collection).
Do you see any trace of “Russian nationalism and expansionism” in the words of Stalin (who btw was Georgian)? Any declarations of imperialist desire? Or exclusively a pragmatic push-to-the-west in the face of a Nazi invasion to, in the words of Stalin and Molotov, moving the defensive lines far to the west because the old frontier was indefensible?
That is wonderful, and I very much appreciate the Polish resistance against Nazism, both during and after the invasion. The Polish antifascist partisans were truly effective and an unquestionable help in the defeat of Nazism, my utmost respect to all of them. My point with my initial comment was not the denigration of Polish partisans, but simply to correct the history-erasure that supposes not talking about Soviets and the Red Army when it comes to the existence of a modern Polish state, instead of the colonial ashes of an entirely genocided Nazi colony.