DISINFO: On 17 September 1939 USSR began liberating Poland from Nazi occupation
SUMMARY
September 17th [this year] marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the USSR’s assault on Nazi-occupied Poland, which it liberated in the process.
RESPONSE
This is part of Russian efforts of historical revisionism, applied in order to portray Russia’s role in World War II as a non-aggressive power and Poland as one of the main culprits of the conflict. You can see other examples of disinformation narratives about the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact here, here and here, and about alleged Poland’s blame for the WWII outbreak here, here and here.