In this video we look at the Soviet Perspective of the Soviet Invasion of Poland what they considered/portrayed as a liberation. For this we look at official German translation of the official History of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (6 Volumes).

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Geschichte des Großen Vaterländischen Krieges der Sowjetunion. Band 1: Die Vorbereitung und Entfesselung des zweiten Weltkrieges durch die imperialistischen Mächte. Bd. 1. Deutscher Militärverlag: Berlin, German Democratic Republic, 1962.

Lokatis, Siegfried: Die Zensur historischer Literatur in der DDR unter Ulbricht. In: Historische Zeitschrift. Beihefte , 1998, New Series, Vol. 27, Die DDR-Geschichtswissenschaft als Forschungsproblem (1998), p. 281-293.

Hill, Alexander: The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2017.

Edele, Mark: Soviet liberations and occupations, 1939-1949. In: Ferris, John Robert (ed.); Mawdsley, Evan (ed.): The Cambridge History of the Second World War, Volume II: Politics and Ideology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2015

Ellis, Johen: World War II - A Statistical Survey - The Essential Facts & Figures for All the Combatants, Edition: 1995 reprinted with corrections.


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00:00 Teaser - Cold War Rhetoric
00:17 Introduction
00:55 Structure
01:06 Source Discussion
03:12 "Western" Perspective of the Soviet Invasion of Poland
09:44 Soviet Perspective - Framing the Invasion
10:44 Soviet Perspective on the Soviet Invasion of Poland
18:50 Molotov's Statement
19:42 Ending