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Originally Posted by Lunatock
The Polish Army was doing well defending Poland from the third reich. What really contributed to the conquest of Poland was soviet troops swarming into Poland from the east.
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Hi Lunatock, Polish were defeated completelly when Soviets entered Eastern Poland..... they did not risk anything then....
It is wrong to say that Poland may have had chance to withstand if Soviets did not invade. After bloody campaign of 1919-20, Red Army was quite of high oppinion on Poles.... hence they waited until Poles collapsed completelly and then invaded. Look, Soviets start invasion on Septembe 17th, when Warsaw was encircled, main part of polish army was encircled near Vistula and some remains were defending on Romanian border.... Already then fragmented Polish army was doomed and Stalin was afraid that he would lose his peace pie... so he russhed into a defeated country....
That is why there any major battle against Soviet troops which captured around 300,000 prisoners. We all know that 22,000 of them (mostly officers) were executed in 1940 while remaining were either joined to Red Army or released....