Baffled Russia

From the MT:

"Russia ‘Bewildered’ by Poland’s World War II Commemoration Snub"

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it was baffled by Poland’s refusal to invite a Russian delegation to a commemoration ceremony marking 80 years since the start of World War II. An aide to the Polish president said this week that Russia has not been invited to the September ceremony because of its annexation of Crimea and activities in eastern Ukraine. “We were bewildered by the Polish leadership’s plans to organize the events … [with] Warsaw’s current ‘allies and partners,’” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday. It slammed Poland for “ignoring historical logic” and being guided by “short-term political ‘priorities,’” and accused it of falsifying “the record of World War II and the postwar period.” “Let it rest on the conscience of the current Polish authorities,” Moscow said. In 2009, at the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II in Poland, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rebuffed criticism of Moscow’s role just before the war. Russia and former satellites including Poland disagree over the role of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1939, when he clinched a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany that paved the way for the invasion of Poland and world war. Russians are deeply proud of their country’s victory over Hitler in 1945. But Poles, Balts and others say Stalin also bears direct responsibility for the outbreak of war, carving up Poland with Hitler and annexing the Baltic states.

^  Not sure why the Russians are so shocked. They just need to open a non-Russian history book. Stalin made an agreement with Hitler - the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Hitler would invade western Poland (which he did on September 1, 1939) and Stalin would invade eastern Poland (which he did on September 17, 1939.)  The Soviets occupied eastern Poland from September 17, 1939 to June 22, 1941 when the Germans invaded Soviet-occupied Poland (among other places.)  The Soviets deported 1,700,000 Poles to Siberia in 1939-1941. The Soviets imprisoned 500,000 Polish nationals before June 1941.The Soviets murdered 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia at Katyn from April-May 1940.  

Could these be the reasons the current Government of Poland do not want to invite Russia to the 80th Anniversary of the start of World War 2?  

This doesn't even include the things the Soviets did to the Poles after June 1941. ^

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/03/22/russia-bewildered-by-polands-world-war-ii-commemoration-snub-a64929