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[deleted] t1_izofc0i wrote

For anyone that feels really sad about this, you should; it's terrible.

However, you might also be pleased to know that he managed to eventually reconnect with one of his cousins, who he happened to meet by chance on the New York subway.

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VarangianDreams t1_izp5rmz wrote

Playing chess blindfolded to find your dead relatives sounds like something from a greek play.

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Macluawn t1_izpe4nt wrote

And even the Deux Machina subway incident

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halfpipesaur t1_izp7e30 wrote

This title took me on a rollercoaster. And by that I mean it went only up until it fell off the tracks and crashed to the ground

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psgbg t1_izo1ucp wrote

Gambit didn't pay off, not entirely.

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shingofan t1_izqabbz wrote

That went from zero to 100 real quick

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HPmoni t1_izyapql wrote

That took a turn.

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Oblic008 t1_izpym2c wrote

Had me in the first half...

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JonnyK89898989 t1_izqlw5n wrote

Or was it the Soviets but they covered it up 🤔

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JonnyK89898989 t1_izqq2jg wrote

The invasion of Poland (1 September – 6 October 1939) was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II.[13] The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact.[14] The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland under the terms of the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty.

The Katyn massacre[a] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police)

The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in April 1943.[4] Stalin severed diplomatic relations with the London-based Polish government-in-exile when it asked for an investigation by the International Committee of the Red Cross.[5] After the Vistula–Oder offensive where the mass graves fell into Soviet control, the Soviet Union claimed the Nazis had killed the victims, and it continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet government.

My grandpa was in the Polish army during invasion but was flown over to New York lol fuck you.

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HoNose t1_izs5tjk wrote

Could be, but statistically unlikely: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Poland_(1939%E2%80%931945)

>In August 2009, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated Poland's dead (including Polish Jews) at between 5.47 and 5.67 million (due to German actions) and 150,000 (due to Soviet), or around 5.62 and 5.82 million total.

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JonnyK89898989 t1_izsrpn9 wrote

They intiannly invaded side by side with the Nazis in agreement to split it in half with them taking a side each.. Instead they ended up taking Poland as their own while trying to take half of Germany Post WWII with their Berlin Wall bs. Wiki says 150'000 but there were 22'000 in secret burial grounds that they blamed on the Nazis alone so I'd assume a lot more. They threw 1.5 million into gulags later reaching 15-18 million, where they'd chop your nose and fingers off or strip you then wrap you in barbed wire pouring boiling water over you if you disagreed with their enforced communist deathbed regime.. They also were responsible for infecting 10% of the Polish population from the raping of 100'000 women and children.. Sorry but fuck those guys.. I hate that "the West" are only taught about how evil the Nazis were, while a lot of pro Marxists and leftists have been made to believe that Stalin was "a good guy".. Source? College ideologues... 🤦‍♂️ And I am 1/4 Polish.. My grandpa having literally killed nazis and the old folk know the script with the Soviets at least.. Fuck knows why people are being triggered already.

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smad333 t1_izpww13 wrote

I guess you shouldn't say he did nazi that coming

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Tvekelectric t1_izowq36 wrote

Kanye would beg to differ.

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default82781 t1_izp0wa6 wrote

I don't know if you meant Kanye or not, but thinking you did lead me to the life and times of Kanye Chess;

"After a long day at work, Kanye West goes to his Kanye Nest, to take a Kanye Rest. He wakes up feeling his Kanye Best. Then he'll get dressed in his Kanye Vest, and go on a Kanye Quest......."

It keeps on going and there is another verse

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/if-kanye-west-was-a-chess-player?page=2

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