Russia has falsely claimed that it did not invade Poland in 1939, issuing the denial on the 86th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland.
Moscow’s foreign ministry posted a video to social media on Wednesday that offered its own distorted view of historical events, painting Warsaw as the aggressor in a conflict that saw Poland invaded from the west by Nazi Germany and from the east by the Soviets in September 1939.
The video referred to Moscow’s offensive into Poland as a “military operation”—language almost identical to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s take on his 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which he referred to as a “special military operation.”
In reality, on September 17, 1939, approximately half a million Soviet troops poured over the border into Poland, backed up by almost 5,000 armored vehicles and 2,000 aircraft, leaving Poland fighting a war on two fronts against insurmountable odds.
The video posted by the Russian foreign ministry attempts to justify the Soviet invasion by calling it a liberation of western Belarus and Ukraine, which it claims had been under “Polish occupation” since the end of the Polish-Soviet war in 1921.
Complex ethnic tensions flared in the region after the end of World War I and the collapse of the Russian, German (Prussian) and Austro-Hungarian empires, when Poland re-emerged as a multicultural independent state after spending 123 years under the rule of its neighboring powers.
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