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You are talking about Poland? So hold your fire Cheezy the Wiz, you are completely wrong.
You probably don't know that the Interim Government of Revolutionary Russia acknowledged the right of Poland for independent existence in its declaration dated 30.03.1917. When the Interim Government was abolished and Soviets came to power - they also accepted the existence of independent Poland.
As you can see the Revolutionary Russia was probably the 1st country to recognize the independent existence of Poland after / during WW1.
The USA was second - Willson presented his postulate of independent Poland on 08.01.1918 - 10 months after Russia.
Only later, when the Bolsheviks came to full power and strengthened their position in Russia, they changed their mind and called Poland "the bastard of Versailles". No matter that calling the 2nd Republic of Poland so is a complete nonsense (Poland declared its own independence on 07.10.1918 and gained factual and full independence during the October and early November of 1918, while the Versailles treaty was signed on 28.06.1919).
What about the series of Gestapo-NKVD Conferences that took place between 1939 and 1941:
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konferencje_Gestapo-NKWD
http://www.ivrozbiorpolski.pl/index.php?page=nkwd-gestapo-oun
And during which Gestapo and NKVD were sharing their experiences in & methods of persecuting the Polish nation?
Document of the top-secret Additional Protocol from September 28th of 1939 about the Joint Coordination of Anti-Polish Actions:
Signed by V. Molotov, J. Ribbentrop.
Wait a moment.
What the hell does being Axis or Allies has to do with being part of the West or not?
Nazi Germany WAS part of the West in the context of ww2 and in any other context.
Does it mean that the Soviet Union was part of the West in the context of ww2 (as since 1941 they were Allies after all)?
Yes they did - maps show the maximum range of Soviet advances in August of 1920 (before the Polish counteroffensive):
Soviet forces made an attempt of capturing Warsaw but their assaults were repulsed on 13.08.1920 in the battles of Modlin and Radzymin:
Link to video.
Large map showing the maximum line of Soviet advances in August of 1920:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/PBW_August_1920.png
You know what Cheezy the Wiz. Capitalism was evil in its 19th century version.
Modern capitalism that we have in European Union, for example, is not really capitalism in the original meaning of this word.
Modern capitalism is rather some kind of thing which can be called "Social Capitalism" or "Democratic Capitalism", not 19th century "Wild Capitalism".
Capitalism of 19th century had not much to do with democracy. Rather with radical liberalism understood as radical freedom of money and agreements.
Of course modern day USA has - since about 1970s - a constantly more and more radical version of capitalism than we have in Europe.
Main reasons of the recent economic crisis are this radical US capitalism and its consequences.
Modern Russia has - unfortunately - the same (or even more) radical version of capitalism as (than) modern USA.
But in Russia the financial oligarchy which concentrates almost all money in their hands is even more powerful (and supported by Putin).
+ the USA is a richer country, that's why fewer people suffer from this radical capitalism. But this is changing recently.
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