These two images are 82 years apart.
- A German and a Soviet officer shaking hands at the end of the Invasion of Poland, October 1939.
2. Poles saying no to both German National Socialism and Russian Soviet Socialism in 2021.
Historical memory is strong in Poland.
This is timely because there is inded a parallel between Poland and Ukraine. Ukraine was also annexed, divided and then suffered of the two totalitarianisms. Even the fate of antisemitism revealed similarities in these countries where nationalism was existential at a time where Jews were more internationalists or leftists.