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During the Warsaw Uprising the Red Army refused to aid the Polish Home army for political reasons.

Stalin was to have Poland as a communist buffer in case the West ever tried to invade again.

Also on the Vistula was the Soviet backed and created Polish People's Army. It hypothesized that the commander of this force, Zygmunt Berling, had ordered his forces forward to support their Polish brethren but when his Soviet masters found out the offensive was halted and Berling put under house arrest in Moscow until 1947.

So what if the Russians are bit slower in catching on to what is happening and the Polish People's Army goes on the offensive.

The Wehrmacht thinking its the whole Red Army on the attack withdraws to it's next strong line of defense.

As an example of the tail wagging the dog and seeing it as fait accompli the Red Army follows their Polish Army into Warsaw.

A Soviet Polish Army has just helped the Polish Home Army free their capitol, what happens next?

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