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Originally Posted by Pointman
Poland was granted independence after WW2, wasn't it? I said Stalin liberated Warsaw from Hitler, and this is certainly true unless you want to challenge that. Warsaw was surely a capital of an independent Poland from 1945 onwards.
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Liberated - yes. Independent - no. Given the number of Soviet military troops stationed in Poland and the political influence alone it would be absurd to say that Poland was an independent state from 1945-89.
Better than Nazi rule undoubtedly and in some ways the spheres of influence mimics that of Western Europe post World War 2 with the United States and the Marshall Plan.