• IT APPEARS THAT RSL (RETURNED SERVICEMEN LEAGUE), THE ORGANIZERS OF ANZAC MARCH IN SYDNEY, SHOW MISUNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY (to say the least) AND APPROVE DOUBLE STANDARDS.
  
• RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAD NOTHING IN COMMON WITH FIGHT FOR LIBERTY AND DEMOCRACY THAT WE COMMEMORATE IN ANZAC DAY MARCH.

1939 - 1941 : SOVIET- NAZI  FRIENDSHIP

• In 1939, the Soviet Union rejected an offer from the Allies (Great Britain, France and Poland) to form an alliance against Hitler's continuing aggression in Europe. Instead, the Soviet Union signed a Friendship Treaty with Germany which included a secret Soviet-Nazi collusion to divide Poland and Eastern Europe between Germany and the Soviet Union. This Russian back-up gave Hitler free hand to start the Second World War.
  
• Accordingly, in September 1939, in support of Hitler's invasion of Poland from the west, triggering the war with England, France, Australia and India, the Red Army attacked Poland from the east. Two months later, the Russians also invaded Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Bessarabia (Moldavia).
  
• 25,700 Polish officers retreating eastwards with their troops from the German attack, were taken prisoner by the Russians, and six months later they were all individually executed in Russian prisons and buried in KATYN forests.

September 1939.
A Red Army commander of the Soviet tank is being welcomed by Nazi officers in the Polish town Brest on the river Bug, where both armies met. It became a border town on the new Soviet-German border that divided occupied Poland.

These Russian officers may now be marching in the Anzac Day March.

• For the first two years of the war the Russians supported the Nazis against the Allies : militarily, politically and economically. While Australian, British and Polish soldiers, airmen and sailors were loosing their lives in the West, the Russians supplied Hitler with food, oil, petrol, timber, and war materials, as well as disseminated anti-western propaganda.
  
• This lasted until June 1941, when ever-victorious Hitler decided not to share Europe with Stalin, betrayed his partner in crime, and invaded the Soviet Union itself, advancing with lightning speed right up to Moscow and Stalingrad.
  


1941 : THE SOVIETS BECOME AN ACCIDENTAL, UNRELIABLE AND UNCOOPERATIVE  ALLY
• After German attack, the Russians unexpectedly found themselves on the same side as the Allies. But they did not join us to help our cause. Their sole aim remained the survival of the communist dictatorship and ideology, not the victory of freedom and democracy in Europe and Russia.
  
• Those intentions became clear already early in 1944 when the Russians, advancing on the eastern war front, approached their pre-war border in Europe.
  
• When the Red Army crossed into occupied Poland in 1944, the Polish Underground Army cooperated with the Russians in the fight against Germans and contributed greatly to the victories at Vilnius, Lvov and Lublin only to find themselves surrounded and disarmed by their Soviet "comrades in arms" and arrested. All were accused of supporting the democratic Polish government in-exile in London, labeled by Soviets as enemy "bourgeois and capitalist" government, and were deported to labour camps in Siberia. Their commanders were shot.

• On 1st August 1944, with the Russian forces now at the outskirts of Warsaw on the east bank of the Vistula river, the Polish Homeland Army, responsible to Polish Government in-exile in London, and all civilians took arms against the Germans. It was the WARSAW UPRISING. Heroic street-fighting involving the whole population, using the sewers as lines of communication and escape, under heavy bombardment, lasted for over two months.
  
• The Russians halted, letting the fighting continue between the ill-equipped Polish Homeland Army and the German garrison. They awaited until Warsaw was destroyed and Polish underground army defeated.
  They also refused to allow Allied planes which were dropping supplies in Warsaw to land and refuel on Polish airfields already under Russian control.
  
  There were Australians among the Allied plane crews. Twenty operations were carried out by Australians using Halifaxes and Liberators. Due to Soviet plane landing refusal the airmen had to risk death, flying back 11 hours non-stop over German territory on limited fuel.
  
• W/O Murray Alexander Baxter, an Australian airman, died in Warsaw together with the whole crew on 15th August 1944 while conducting a supply drop in support of the Polish Uprising. An Australian navigator F/lt. Alan Mcintosh had flown three Warsaw missions. According to his report, many Soviet night fighters and heavy anti-aircraft fire, assisted by searchlights, engaged the Allied aircraft over the Russian side of the Vistula River where the Red Army stood poised, watching with gratification the Germans eliminate a problem for them — a problem of possible Polish Independence.
  
• The fighting continued for 66 days. 250,000 people died. The city was completely destroyed. The Russians did not give any help. The surrender took place on 2nd October 1944. After surrendering, the Homeland army soldiers and many civilians were sent by Germans to concentration camps, some were executed, and Warsaw was razed to the ground.
  
• The defeat of Warsaw Uprising destroyed the military and political democratic institutions of the Polish underground and left the way open for a Soviet takeover as they were planning. Poland was already part of Russia's post war communist expansionist plans in Europe.
  
• The Russians awaited another 3 months before moving in on 17 January 1945 to occupy the ruins, calling that day "the liberation of Warsaw".

1945 : RUSSIA EMERGES AS A RUTHLESS OCCUPIER, NOT AN ALLY IN LIBERATION AND DEMOCRACY

1. by creating a communist East Germany , falsely named German Democratic Republic ("democratic" Soviet style)
2. by blockading and starving Berlin to get the Allies out, with an objective to communize the whole of Germany (did you see documentary on TV about "Berlin Airlift"?)
3. by erecting the Berlin Wall and shooting the escapees to the West
4. by descending "the iron curtain" on Central and Eastern Europe
5. by enslaving Eastern European countries for 50 years
6. by continuously provoking and actively pursuing the Cold War