Hi, TX Hunter,
The fact is that dictatorships tend to exterminate their enemies, whether it is in the name of National Socialism or The People's Communism. Stalin killed far more of his own people than Hitler did, and Mao killed ten times as many as Stalin. All in the name of the greater good!
If you go by the Military Channel or the History Channel, you will learn that Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. You will NOT be told that the German armies did not cross the Russian border to do so, they merely crossed into the Russian sector of Poland. The Russian takeover of Eastern Poland as the Germans came in from the west has been deliberately ignored by most U.S. left-wing historians.
Then, in 1944, as the Polish underground fought desperately against the Germans, hoping every day for help from the Russians, Stalin deliberately stopped the Russian advance. His view was that it was better for the USSR if the Poles and the Germans killed each other. The more dead Germans, the easier Soviet armies would have it on the march to Berlin. The more dead Poles, the fewer freedom lovers to be exterminated after the Soviet conquest.
No, the Poles have no love for the Russians.
Jim