Did the Soviet Union Invade Poland in September 1939?September 17 2009 at 11:10 AM No score for this post chornyvolk (Login IGORM) MODERATORSDid the Soviet Union Invade Poland in September 1939?
(The answer: No, it did not.) Grover Furr Did the Soviet Union Invade Poland on September 17, 1939? Why ask? “We all know” this invasion occurred. “You can look it up!” All authoritative sources agree. This historical event happened. Here’s a recent article in The New York Review of Books (April 30, 2009, p. 17) by Timothy Snyder, Yale University professor, academic expert in this area — and fanatic anticommunist — who just has to know that what he writes here is, to put it politely, false: Because the film (although not the book)* begins with the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 rather than the joint German-Soviet invasion and division of Poland in 1939… the Soviet state had just months earlier been an ally of Nazi Germany… (* “Defiance”) “Behind Closed Doors” (PBS series 2009): “After invading Poland in September 1939, the Nazis and the Soviets divided the country as they had agreed to do in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact” http://www.pbs.org/behindcloseddoors/in-depth/s
