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You know,
1. Eastern Poland (and this included Warsaw) used to be in the Russian Empire, before being seized by the Central Powers forces early in WWI. Lenin officially recognised independence of EVERYONE in the former Empire, but you know, it was *wink wing nudge nudge*, and when the Russian Civil War was over only Poland, Finland, and the Baltic states managed to get away from Moscow. You know, this Soviet Union thing?
2. Polish forces were heavily involved in the fighting in Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania (against the Reds and also various other forces, because the situation was fluid and also everyone wanted to get independence).
3. Red Army invaded Poland (just re-created in 1918) and almost got to Warsaw in 1920.
The Reds even called the Polish Army "White Poles". The "Red Poles" were in the Red Army, or in the Cheka (later known under various names such as GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, KGB, FSB, etc.), like its founder, Felix Dzerzhinsky.
The pic is members of Russia's Internal Troops (VV) crack Dzerzhinsky Division in 2011. "Bloody Felix" arguably killed more Russians than any other Pole in history, but the Russians still greatly honor him because they're such a maniac nation.
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