Are Poles grateful to the Russians for winning the war?

they were such a juggernaut by the end of the war they could probably have taken on the allies and won.

They'd have lost because they didn't have a viable bomb - and it's well documented that their supply lines were incredibly overstretched in order to get to Berlin first.

Poland made a massive mistake in WW2 by not waiting until the Russians were almost at the gates of Berlin - they could never have survived a ruthless Polish attack on their supply lines, especially if the Poles were covertly aided by the Americans.

obviously not overstretched enough. ;) they came in 1st. :)

nice combination of 'ifs', but it did not turned out that way as history showed. its quite interesting how some people here on pf are trying to minimize the ussr part of the ww2 victory against nazi germany. are u people ussr/russian phobics? ;)

It's very much a "what if" scenario - there's always the possibility that the Russians would have given up the "prize" of Berlin and simply concentrated on giving Poland a hiding instead. If they had wanted to, they could have destroyed Poland at that point.

on the INTERNET forum, not likely.

Define the communist era.

Are you sure it was Polish history that had been taught ?

Why you asking irrelevant question, Poles were murdered by the ten of thousands after the WWII by the Soviets.