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It was a good thing to shut down Auschwitz, in my opinion.
Yes! Of course it was. 100%! No denying of that. :) I was rather referring to the so called "liberation of Poland" by the Soviets and all the things that happened afterwards. The puppet government of People's Republic of Poland and all the other things.
From the Polish communists I have spoken to, the Polish People's Republic was flawed but overall a net positive, with dramatic industrialization and improvements in quality of life. There was civil tension between the nationalists, Nazi sympathizers, and the communists. Overall, far better than Nazi occupation, and it isn't close.
i remember a pic of an arse-faced woman showing the monthly ration provided to her by the state in poland, as if saying "look at this misery". probably the pic was shot in the early 80s. when i first saw that the first thing that came to my mind is that, in northeastern brazil (my home region), around the same time, about 1.5 million people died of starvation and malnutrition during the drought of 1977-83, and many would literally give an arm or a leg for that ration.