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Explanation: Due to negotiations during WW2, it was agreed between the Western Allies and Stalin that Eastern Europe would be occupied by the USSR - including Poland, which had fought fiercely against the Nazis and against Soviet domination, and whose government-in-exile and partisans were a major ally of the Western powers. It is, understandably, still seen as a betrayal by many in Poland.
??? Do you have a source that it was seen as a betrayal? Poland was under Soviet control before the war ended.
That's like French communist partisans that fought for 5 years being angry at the Soviets for selling France to the Western Allies.
You can't sell what you don't own.