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 ==A few points== 

 *I've completed a light copy-edit. I didn't have time to go into detail and really scrape into the sources. On the face of it, the references are OK, though there are some dead links—for example, notes 25 and 33, and the second of the external links. I didn't look at many of the links, but I wished more of them could have been to history books, with page references, rather than to websites, some of which—for example, the Szack encyclopedia—looked a little flimsy to me. Note 21 has a bunch of links that only prove that a book exists, rather than referencing a specific page, unless I'm mistaken. ISBNs prove a book's existence well enough, I think. Weblinks, in my opinion, should provide an opportunity for a reader to find out more (to be fair, some of those in the article do that). 

 *In the list of battles this isn't entirely clear:  

 *Battle of Lwów (1939) (second half) of September 17 to September 22 

 :It take it the second half is the only part of the battle in which the Soviets took part, but I don't think the parenthetical information is helpful there. I didn't cut it because I'm not sure what the full length of the battle would then be. 

 *What is ""the yoke of pans""? Perhaps needs clarifying. 

 *What government operated in Poland after the government-in-exile had left? Was there a puppet government? Were there collaborators? Was part of Poland under Russian control (the article tells of 13.5 million Poles under Russian control: were they inside or outside Poland?) I didn't feel fully informed on this aspect.  

 *I would have liked more from the Soviet point-of-view. I grant that it is difficult to feel sympathy for people who invade a country and imprison and kill many of its citizens, but by point-of-view I just mean information about what they were trying to do. The article rightly makes a lot of the reunification of Ukrainians and Belarusians, but it also says that wasn't a main goal of the Soviets. I'd guess that, given what they'd been through in the Great War, they were trying to engage in preventative action. They must have assumed from the western powers' unwillingness to ally with them that western Europe would be happy to see them attacked by Germany and to watcht Russia and Germany burn each other out. The Russians may have also allied with the Germans for fear of having a hostile Germany installed in Poland and the Baltic states. This is all my guesswork: but I feel the article should cover the motivations, whatever they were. 

 *Was the proposed ""anti-German alliance"" also an anti-fascist alliance (I'm thinking about Italy as well)? I would like to have read more about the aborted plans for an alliance with the allies, because ""late 30s"" is a bit vague to me. A reader might like to understand more of what led to the Soviets' decision to ally with Germany. How were they ""rebuffed""? Who by? At what talks? 

 *I would have liked more detail of the action. Also, since this wasn't so long ago, perhaps some more quotes, especially from participants. 

 *We also hear nothing from the rest of Europe. What were the reactions of the allies to the Russian invasion? What strategic dominos were knocked over (quite a few, I should think) by the Soviets' actions? 

 *We're told that the Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski was the second largest battle of the campaign, but we hadn't been told what the biggest was. By checking the link, I can see that it is the Battle of the Bzura, but in the article that one is described as a ""major"" counter-offensive, so I didn't like to add the point, in case I'm wrong. 

 *I find the term ""Ruthenian territories"" a little imprecise in: 

 The cultural assimilation into Polish culture (Polonization) of the territories with large Ruthenian populations...  

 because there were many Ruthenian territories outside Polish influence, I imagine. I also think the Lithuanian position needs mentioning, given that there was a battle at Wilno (to them, Vilnius). Unlike the Ukrainians and Belarusians, they couldn't have welcomed the Soviets. Whose side did they fight on? 

 *I wasn't quite sure what was meant by ""Russification"" in the following: 

 ''Through both voluntary and forced cultural assimilation, Polish culture became dominant in the western Ruthenian lands, while Russian culture predominated in the eastern lands, where Russification had a significant impact."" Of course, I know what Russification involved in non-Russian countries, but how would it affect ethnic Russian communities within the Soviet Union? (Sovietization would be a different thing.) Does this passage refer to Russification of Belarusians, Ukrainians and Poles who lived in Russian areas rather than Polish? It is made vague to me by the fact that the position of these ""eastern lands