POWs, The Soviet Union, Poland and Annie Applebaum.

[Franek Grabowski]

well, more than OT , but i have a question.
wasn´t there a election in uppersilesia in the year 1921 ( being part of poland or germany ) and almost 60 % voted for germany ?

As usual, there are two versions of the event, ie. plebiscite itself and surrounding events. It was eg. claimed that Germany brought several people to Silesia just to assure proportion being in German favour. It is a fact that there were three uprisings in the area that led to inclusion Silesia to Poland. Obviously, this would not happen without large support among inhabitants. And it is a fact, most of Upper Silesia was in Poland before the war.

Please don't pervert my words and admit that Silesia was a German territory mostly, so there were no reparations from Poland but reparations from the German territories.

Pervert? This clearly shows lacks in your education.
Anyway, since Potsdam and decisions of authorities of UK, USA and SU, those territiories were Polish. The one may like it or not, but that was (and is) a legal status of those lands.
SU robbed both Polish and ex-German lands and demanded reparations from Poland. This is what you call liberation.

Definitely it's difficult to imagine anything that poles could do or get without Russians, Germans or someone else.

Prosperity.

Maybe to steal something from the Czech?

Oh, whenever Russians lack an argument, disputable territories of Cieszyn return! And negroes are beaten in your country!

And last but not least Belorussians and Ukranians didn't want to live in Poland as well as Silesians so nobody who knows the history won't take seriously your picture of happy Poland before the war.

No Ukrainians died of hunger in Poland, there was no Ukrainian underground movement here and Ukrainians spoke Ukrainian and no Russian. Relationships were sometimes good and sometimes tense but still those were rlationships between Poles and Ukrainians and not Russians.

BTW Soviet troops were in Poland in large numbers because of Cold War, not because of Polish resistance. No need a lot of troops to make poles quiet.

A very interesting euphemism. Polish government and Polish troops remain on the West, Soviet troops are based in quantities in Poland, SU supports a puppet government formed of NKVD agents or Russians, Polish underground fights hopelessly aginst new occupants. Why Soviets are in Poland? Because of COLD WAR! Interesting.

PS You are going off topic!