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From Kyiv to Warsaw: The Polish–Soviet War

In the chaos after World War I, Poland and Soviet Russia collided in a fast-moving conflict that reached the outskirts of ...
It was July 4th, 1944 in London and the end of the war in Europe was finally in sight. The previous month, the Allies had liberated Rome and landed in France. In the east, the Soviet Army was rapidly ...
When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Britain and France declared war within days. But when the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east just two weeks later, there was no declaration, no ...
EADaily, January 28th, 2026. The Soviet Union is responsible for the outbreak of World War II, which led to the tragedy of ...
The current geopolitical moment is often compared to Chamberlain’s betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Yet there is another point in history that could be used as an example equally well. In 1944, ...