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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.
To add to other links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War
Also Russia actually invaded Poland together with Germany:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
It was only after Hitler attacked Russia they switched sides and became allies to the West, but West let them keep the land they took.
To Poland events of world war 2 continued until 1989 when it finally escaped Russia's control.
Queue in tankies spouting slurs and *no russia saved the wurld *