“We were completely disoriented, we had no idea about the Ribbentrop-Molotow pact. We did not know if they [the Soviet army] were coming to join us in our fight against the Germans or if this was a new attack. When we started to fight and the Soviet planes started to drop bombs on us, it became clear what was going on [...]” says 70 years later Stanislaw Matkowski [, Polish Army] whose unit was stationed on the Polish-Soviet border.
“It became apparent that all that was needed was an initial attack of the German Army and, after that, the attack of the Soviet [army]; in order to leave nothing of [Poland,] this monstrous bastard of the Treaty of Versailles ...". Excerpt from the Soviet Prime Minister Vyacheslav Molotov's speech to the Supreme Soviet on September 31, 1939 about Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland.
An appeal issued by the Communist International on October 7, 1939 - that is the 22 Anniversary of the October Revolution - described the Soviet-Nazi invasion of Poland as “an example of cooperation of socialist nations against Anglo-French imperialism.”
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