“Russia has always respected the bravery and heroism of the Polish people, soldiers and officers, who stood up first against Nazism in 1939.”

On the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II, 1 September 2009 https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/world/europe/02russia.html
2006 - 2010

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