HoNose t1_izs5tjk wrote on December 11, 2022 at 1:22 PM

Reply to comment by JonnyK89898989 in TIL In 1939 chess Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf started regular simultaneous blindfold exhibitions hoping that international news coverage would reconnect him with family in Poland. He succeeded in setting the record and getting international coverage but his family had already been killed by nazis. by SigmaGrooveJamSet

Could be, but statistically unlikely: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Poland_(1939%E2%80%931945)

>In August 2009, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated Poland's dead (including Polish Jews) at between 5.47 and 5.67 million (due to German actions) and 150,000 (due to Soviet), or around 5.62 and 5.82 million total.

JonnyK89898989 t1_izsrpn9 wrote on December 11, 2022 at 4:10 PM

They intiannly invaded side by side with the Nazis in agreement to split it in half with them taking a side each.. Instead they ended up taking Poland as their own while trying to take half of Germany Post WWII with their Berlin Wall bs. Wiki says 150'000 but there were 22'000 in secret burial grounds that they blamed on the Nazis alone so I'd assume a lot more. They threw 1.5 million into gulags later reaching 15-18 million, where they'd chop your nose and fingers off or strip you then wrap you in barbed wire pouring boiling water over you if you disagreed with their enforced communist deathbed regime.. They also were responsible for infecting 10% of the Polish population from the raping of 100'000 women and children.. Sorry but fuck those guys.. I hate that "the West" are only taught about how evil the Nazis were, while a lot of pro Marxists and leftists have been made to believe that Stalin was "a good guy".. Source? College ideologues... 🤦‍♂️ And I am 1/4 Polish.. My grandpa having literally killed nazis and the old folk know the script with the Soviets at least.. Fuck knows why people are being triggered already.