The Polish question and the USSR during World War II

ISBN-13: 9786208676087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 140 str.

Moisés Wagner Franciscon

Opis

For decades, official Western historiography has reverberated Churchill's claims that Stalin prevented the Soviet advance on Warsaw in order to see the destruction of the Levant. The Soviet version, and the facts that reinforce it, have been available since that time. But they were not taken into account, which only happened with the end of the Cold War and the rivalry with the USSR. In the same way, the invasion of Poland in the West was taken as an alliance between communism and Nazism, when they were only sharing spheres of influence, reversing the Versailles borders and normalizing trade. The Red Army was also seen as a war machine controlled by inefficient political agents blinded by ideology - when Soviet cinema itself echoed the reforms that re-established tsarist hierarchy and tradition. Official history and Soviet cinema shed light on mythologizations on both sides.