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Nope, just the post-soviet anti-communist government and the fascists. No modern historian genuinely believes the soviets ever committed genocide. The soviets did indeed attack Poland, but the Nazis committed the Katyn Massacre and the Holocaust, not the soviets.
You're confusing my point being about how the west loved the Nazis and the soviets hated them, with saying the soviets never attacked Poland. They did, and I never denied that, just soviet guilt in Katyn or claims of "genocide" by the soviets, which is fascist fiction.
The Soviets never agreed to invade Poland in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. They agreed to lines that the other should not cross in the advent of war, which the Nazis were well on their way to violate had the soviets not taken the areas Poland invaded and anexxed prior. Neither power expected the pact to hold, either, the soviets expected Nazi betrayal and the Nazis knew they were going to break the pact, both understood it as a measure to buy time, so any "agreements" weren't worth shit.
From this excellent post by comrade Anarcho-Bolshevik:
(Emphasis added.)
The decision to remember the conspiracy theory that the Soviets committed this atrocity is very much a political decision, not a logical one. It serves two purposes: anticommunism and Russophobia, both of which are still of use to the Western upper classes. That is why most anticommunists familiar with this atrocity are much less likely to be familiar with the fact that the Fascists exterminated millions of Poles in a settler‐colonial project inspired by earlier ones in North America and elsewhere.
For example, it was in the Pomeranian province that the Fascists exterminated at least 30,000 Polish civilians from October to November in 1939 alone, yet politically it is of very little use to the ruling class, so anticommunists choose to forget it. Tell me, how often, exactly, have you heard anybody discuss this slaughter? Can you name even one example…?
See also: A series of quotes corroborating the probability that the Fascists committed this massacre.
The idea that the soviets were behind the Katyn massacre, soviet genocide against Poland, and the idea that the soviets and Nazis agreed to attack Poland and split it together are all Nazi propaganda, yes. It's unsurprising that the current far-right Polish government is performing Nazi apologia and anti-communist mythmaking. I also already explained the forgeries.
You need to update your terminology. According anticommunists: genocide is just when communists do stuff. The more stuff we do, the more genocidaler it is. That’s the definition. The only correct definition, in fact. The Soviet reconstruction of Poland was an act of genocide, for example, but the IOF devastating over 90% of Gaza and massacring hundreds of thousands of civilians isn’t.
Oh of course, my bad, why didn't I consider that? /s
Simply saying "fact" doesn't make it so. If you actually read the Secret Protocol of Molotov-Ribbentrop, it speaks of spheres of influence, not territories to invade, which meant that if Nazi Germany invaded beyond the spheres agreed to then the agreement would be nullified. It was a measure to contain Nazi Germany and slow their assault, not an agreement to conquer all of Europe and split it up. There are no plans to invade anywhere mentioned in the Secret Protocol.
I am answering them, and you're dodging why you agree with Goebbels. The Nazis claimed the soviets killed the officers in 1940, but the bullets in the mass grave were German and dated at 1941, confirmed by the Polish Red Cross. The Nazis had many such mass graves.
Further, Poland is more far-right than the Russian Federation right now, venerates Nazis (as you yourself are doing right now by doing Nazi apologia), and is vehemontly anti-communist. Russia may be governed by right-wing nationalists, but at least it isn't upholding Nazis. Poland is one of the most bloodthirsty NATO members.