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At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union annexed most of the territories it had invaded in 1939. Some parts of eastern Poland occupied by the Nazis in 1939 with an area of 21,275 square kilometres (8,214 sq mi) and 1.5 million inhabitants near Białystok and Przemyśl were returned to postwar Poland. [31]
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west.
- 17 September-6 October 1939
- Soviet victory
- Poland
Although some historians debate that the war started in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China, it is generally accepted that the war started in 1939 with the German invasion of Poland, and that the war ended with the surrender of Japan after the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
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Polish troops react to Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland, 1939, colourized ... Related History meme History Memes History Humanities & Law Internet Culture Internet ...
Nov 5, 2009 · On September 17, 1939, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov declares that the Polish government has ceased to exist, as the U.S.S.R. exercises the “fine print” of the Hitler-Stalin...
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In the Soviet invasion of Poland, the Red Army intervenes in the German-Polish war on the German side, beginning its advance towards the German-Soviet demarcation line agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
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On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans living in Poland. They also falsely claimed that Poland was planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle and dismember Germany.
