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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 The old frontier, which was indefensible, has been replaced by a new one, affording us far greater security in the event that war is forced upon us later” October 31, 1939 (Molotov and Stalin to the Supreme Soviet), Soviet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.
Why the consistent conflating of the Soviet Union and "Russians"? Almost as if your argument here is coming purely from Russophobia, and not from the material and historical analysis of a country with 300 million people, approximately only half of which were Russian. Stalin himself was Georgian, and his successor Khruschyov was Ukrainian.
Oh I see, so it's just Russophobia. Should have guessed it. If you're Polish, I'm sorry that you've been brainwashed by the nationalist far-right into hating the people who contributed most to the elimination of Nazism in your homeland, which if you remember correctly, exterminated millions of your kind. But hey, you can overcome it. I'm Spanish and I overcame the worst parts of the Islamophobia and Arabphobia that our institutions regurgitate onto us, so you can do it too!
As someone from Spain (country where the fascists actually won the war and remained in government for 40-odd years), I actually wish we had had a neighboring communist country who helped us out of fascism, instead of capitalist countries whitewashing our ACTUALLY fascist authoritarian regime. Btw, the Soviet Union was the ONLY country in the world to sell weapons to antifascists in Spain during our civil war against fascism, and they sent troops to teach my people to use planes and tanks against fascists. I wonder why they did that?