The Polish-Russian Dispute Over What Happened In 1939

NYTIMES OP-ED.
"In the Polish-Russian dispute over what happened in 1939, rival myth-making is being driven by domestic political calculations on both sides.
...it does need to be acknowledged that while Soviet victory in World War II imposed a dreadful Communist system on Poland, it also saved Poland from what would have been its infinitely more ghastly fate under Nazi rule — which we know from Hitler’s plans for the systematic destruction of the Poles as a national community."