Many people speak here as if Stalin’s Communist regime cared for human life and/or liberty. No, it did not. Stalin and Hitler had a common cause in opposing the UK, France and the United States: both of them despised democracy, human rights, freedom of speech and true capitalism.<br /><br />The URSS did not annex eastern Poland to “protect Ukrainians, Belarussians and Lithuanians from the Polish yoke” — the same URSS killed millions of Ukrainians by hunger some years before and didn’t care a dime for them — but to expand the territories under Kremlin’s control further to the west of Europe. When URSS attacked neutral, democratic Finland its intention was to annex the entire country to the Soviet Union, but due to the better-prepared, better equipped and better-adpated Finnish Army, Stalin just took Karelia in 1940 and Petsamo in 1945.