Glyndower wrote:I think your draft topic should be against Communism not against Russia and certainly not against Poland.
My topic is formed like that due to examination requirements - we spend this subject disputing about how important was the influence of Poland and Russia (and from time to time - Lithuania, Jews and Germany) onto nation-building and culture of Ukraine and Belarus (with emphasis on region of Far Borderlands). That's why I'm going onto "Against" version - I just had to include the mainstream topic into my little one
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Oh, as I can see, the discussion is starting!
Glyndower - while researching, I struck the wall you write about. Frankly, most of authors seem to mistake units consisting of "citizens of USSR" (KONR -ROA especially). Well, I'm more than sure, that I also did that mistake - that's the con of not using original sources :]
John - these nations initially were quite "happy" to see Red Army marching in. But later on the attitude was changing quite rapid, thanks to severe politics of USSR. The same situation (more or less) repeated, when Germans came.
And - yes. Being a non-Polish ethnicity in pre-war II Rzeczpospolita (II Republic of Poland - more or less the same deal as with the numeration of "French Republics") was in most of cases a bad option. We (Poland) had no common line of ethnic policy - so each territorial administration had to make decisions on it's own - from quite a friendly attitude to the "reign of club" (more common). But, note: the case of minorities in pre-war Poland is more than complicated, really - there is no simple answer like: "it was not good then".
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