First of all, let's talk about the most popular so-called Soviet occupation of large areas of Poland. Poland once flourished in the Middle Ages, occupying a large area of land inhabited by Eastern Slavs, including Ukrainians and Belarusians. Later, Tsarist Russia joined forces with Prussia and Austria to carve up Poland, which led to Poland's demise and most of its territory was annexed by Russia. However, the actual living boundary between Poland and Dongsi Lady is relatively clear. At the Paris Peace Conference, Kerry Duhamel Du Monceau and others determined the temporary boundary line of eastern Poland according to the principle of national self-determination: from Suvoki in the north, passing through the eastern Biavistock region, going south along the Bouguer River, and passing through Brest to Nemirov. Later, because British Foreign Secretary Coulson asked the Soviet Union to recognize this boundary line, it was called the Coulson Line. As we all know, an important content of the Paris Peace Conference is to oppose Soviet Russia, so he adopted the policy of supporting Poland and other countries. Curzon line can only benefit Poland, not the Soviet Union. But later, Poland took advantage of the imperialist countries' interference in Soviet Russia and sent troops to occupy a large area of eastern Soviet Russia. The Red Army once counterattacked Warsaw, but it was defeated in the end, so we have to admit the reality that Poland occupied western Ukraine and western Belarus.
1939 After the outbreak of World War II, Poland collapsed rapidly and the government fled abroad. The Soviet Union took the opportunity to recover the territory east of curzon line, which was directly under the East Slavic residential area in history. At Yalta Conference, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to use curzon line as the eastern border of Poland. At the same time, they proposed that the Soviet Union cede Lviv and Lviv oil fields. Stalin pointed out that curzon line itself was beneficial to Poland and unfavorable to the Soviet Union: "This line (curzon line) was not drawn up by the Russians, but by Kousong and Kerry Duhamel Du Monceau. At that time, the Russians were not invited, and the division of this line went against their wishes ... Are we Russians not even as good as Cousin and Kerry Duhamel Du Monceau? In this way, we can't go back to Moscow and explain to the people. They will say that Stalin and Molotov are not even as reliable as Cousin and Kerry Duhamel Du Monceau in defending Russian interests. Therefore, we cannot agree to the proposal to adjust the boundary line. " However, because Poland was a member of the anti-fascist camp in World War II and suffered heavy losses, and the atmosphere of pan-Slavism was also popular in the Soviet Union at that time, Stalin agreed to flee five to eight kilometers in favor of Poland in several regions.
In fact, what is really controversial is not the eastern border between Poland and the Soviet Union, but the western border between Poland and Germany. Before World War II, the western boundary between Poland and Germany was decided by a referendum in 1920. Although Germany and Poland are not satisfied, they basically reflect the actual distribution of nationalities in the two countries. However, one of the themes of Yalta and other conferences in the late World War II was to punish Germany, so the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union agreed to cut part of Germany's territory to Poland. However, the specific propositions of the three countries are different. Roosevelt and Churchill advocated that the Oder River was the boundary in the western part of Poland, while Stalin advocated that the border of Poland should be further extended to the Sinis River on this basis. Even Poland itself is divided on this issue. The pro-Anglo-American Polish government in exile pointed out in the Plan on Poland's Border after World War II: "Our goal is to merge Gdansk, East Prussia and Upper Silesia into Poland, change the western border and make Poland directly enter the Baltic Sea." "Unrestricted territorial claims (referring to the Sinis River as the boundary) are detrimental to Poland's international image. In the eyes of the British, Poland is insatiable. " On the other hand, the pro-Soviet Polish Workers' Party emphasized the Sinis River as the boundary: "The territories in the west and along the Baltic Sea should be returned to Poland, and the German Polish territory occupied by German force must be returned to Poland." Due to the serious differences between the two sides, a compromise was finally reached at the Potsdam meeting, that is, Poland temporarily managed the disputed territory according to the Soviet plan, and the final border demarcation issue was left to the future peace conference: "The heads of government of the three countries reiterated their position that the demarcation of Poland's western border should be resolved at the peace conference. The heads of government of the three countries agreed that before the final demarcation of the western border of Poland, the former eastern territory of Germany, that is, the confluence of the Baltic Sea west of Swinmand along the Oder River to the western section of Nice River, and the border from the western section of Nice River to Czechoslovakia, including the part of East Prudhu and the former Danzig Free Zone, which were decided not to be under the jurisdiction of the Soviet Union at this meeting, were under the jurisdiction of the Polish government. " Historically, the Federal Republic of Germany has always rejected the western border of Poland, and it was not until 1990 that Germany was unified that it finally recognized the division of the western border of Poland.
Even if we simply compare the territory acquired by Poland with the territory lost, there is no problem that Poland suffers losses. On the surface, the territory returned by eastern Poland to the Soviet Union is 6.5438+0.8 million square kilometers, which is larger than the 6.5438+0.3 million square kilometers seized by Germany in the west. But this simple numerical comparison can't reflect the actual gains and losses. Because the territory returned by Poland to the Soviet Union in the east is barren except for the Lviv oil field, and the industry and agriculture are underdeveloped, and the land seized from Germany in the east includes not only the most important grain producing area in Germany, but also Silesia, a famous industrial base in Europe. On the whole, the lost territory of Poland is far less valuable than the gained territory. Therefore, Churchill said, "It would be sad if Polish geese were stuffed with so much German feed and got indigestion." .
Looking at the demarcation of Poland's border after World War II, we can find that Poland only returned most of the territory occupied by the Soviet Union to the Soviet Union, and took the opportunity to seize a large area of land in Germany as compensation. In fact, Poland was one of the biggest beneficiaries of World War II. If there is anything wrong with Stalin, it can only be out of compensation for Poland's huge losses and pan-Slavism in World War II. It not only supported Poland to occupy a large area of German territory, but even ceded part of the Soviet Union's own territory to Poland. Therefore, Stalin, who was very popular in the historical circle, took the opportunity to occupy a large area of Poland in World War II and completely reversed black and white.
The problems in the three Baltic countries are similar. Historically, among these three countries, Estonia and Latvia have never established any country except Lithuania, which was once founded briefly. In the 18th century, tsarist Russia seized the land of these three regions from Poland and Sweden respectively. By the beginning of the 20th century, these three regions had formed an inseparable whole with the Eastern Slavs. During the October Revolution, the three Baltic countries established Soviet regimes respectively, and they are also willing to respond to Lenin's call to establish new reunification on the basis of national self-determination. However, due to the interference of the Allies, the Soviet regimes of the Three Kingdoms were subverted and became puppet regimes against the Soviet Union and * * * under the control of the Allies, similar to the "puppet Manchukuo" fostered by Japan. During World War II, Stalin supported the three countries' revolution and helped the three countries to establish Soviet regime before joining the Soviet Union, which only restored the normal historical state during and before the October Revolution. What about aggression and expansion?
Therefore, Stalin's so-called establishment of the Eastern Front is "Soviet aggression and expansion", which is completely the result of the anti-Soviet and anti-* * propaganda of the media in imperialist countries, which is completely inconsistent with historical facts.