The dirty secret that every Pole knows is that the Russians betrayed the Polish freedom fighters. The Red Army waited across the Vistula while the Germans killed more than 200,000 men, women, and children and leveled Warsaw. Then Stalin re-wrote history, celebrating the saving of Poland by the Red Army and the Soviet Union. Polish partisans, our heroes, suddenly became outlaws. Ten years ago I would have gone to prison for saying this to you.
