Behold, now is the Poland. What happened in the early '20s with the Russian prisoners after the end of the Soviet-Polish war. Is the democratic Marshal Pilsudski gave them to die of starvation in the camps?
Or what happened with German civilians in the 1945-46 years in the territories of Germany, who were transferred to Poland?
I'm sorry Andrey, but you're pushing it.
You're blaming Poles for high mortality rate in prison camps during Polish-Bolshevik war of 1919-1920. This issue surfaced right after Mikhail Gorbachev admitted that the Soviet Union was responsible for Katyn massacre of over 21 thousand Polish citizens in 1940 (including 10 thousand of military/police officers). Certain Soviet groups tried to justify that genocide by improper treatment of POWs by Polish military during the mentioned war (propaganda). They claimed the POWs were executed on purpose, which was corrected by "Krasnoarmiejcy w polskom plenu w 1919–1922 g. Sbornik dokumentow i materiałow" (Moscow 2004) by prof. Waldemar Rezmer, prof. Zbigniew Karpus (both from Nicolas Copernicus University in Torun), prof. Gennadij Matvejev (Moscow University) and many archivists from Poland and Russian Federation. This position is over one thousand pages and contains 338 source documents from Polish and Russian archives. According to it, the cause of death of the prisoners were illnesses like cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever and flu. This is very sad, but the camps were overcrowded, so it was near to impossible to maintain proper hygienic conditions inside them. And that's not only a problem of Polish POW camps. Such things happened in every POW camp of any nation. And please do remember that Poland in 1919-1921 has just regained its independence. Only to be attacked by Bolscheviks. The national administration was still crawling. You blame Piłusudzki for starving those POWs. The first World War has just ended, the famine was everywhere throughout the Europe. Do you really think that Red Army POWs who tried to invade our country were supposed to have higher priority in getting the food than civilians or the Polish army? Was our country the aggressor or was it the newborn Soviet Union?
Then you mention the expulsion of Germans and again blame the Poles for high mortality rate during its course. Let me tell you this Andrey, from 14 million German citizens that were expelled from the lands that were joined to Poland (after the Potsdam treaty), ca. 473 thousand died: 200,000 were deported to USSR and never returned, 60,000 died in Polish camps, 40,000 died in Soviet camps and 120,000 died from genocide done by Red Army. And while there might have been some executions done by Polish forces like in Nieszawa or Aleksandrów Kujawski, according to IPN (Institute of National Remembrance) those executions were supposedly carried out by MO (Citizens' Militia or Civic Militia) and UB (something like a Polish equivalent of NKVD, Germany's Gestapo or DDR's STAZI) - both were under high influence by Soviet apparatus, do not forget there was a famine, cold weather during expulsions, ilnesses, etc. I've never heard about AK (Armia Krajowa - Home Army) that was under the Polish government in exile performing mass executions of Deutsches Volk during that time. Please do post a source if it states otherwise.
At first my point was to prove that Soviet Union was THE proper enemy that is (or was?) pictured in many Hollywood flicks. I respect you Andrey for the great war simulation your game studio has done, but I simply don't understand why you defend the Soviet apparatus by claiming that every nation has done its part in the genocide. What's more, you're trying to attack one of of the nations that was amongst those that has suffered the most during the WW2 (from both: The Reich and Soviet Union) by stating false accusations. Why? What's the point of this?
I could come out here with all guns blazing and post a link to photos and pictures (they're horrifying) from OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) and UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) massacres done in Przebraże, Wołyń (Volhynia) and Podole on Polish infants, women and men, but what would be the point? That would divide us further and this was not my initial intention.
You said let's don't bring up the past. I strongly disagree because we should all learn from the history so we can prevent bad things to repeat, so that our children can live in a world full of peace, not war. Because that's what history is about.