This demand originated in a fear of a possible Soviet occupation of Eastern Finnmark, as had happened in Poland in 1939.
On February 10, 1940, the town was seized by the USSR, along with the rest of eastern Poland during Soviet invasion of Poland.
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The Odessa MD was reinforced by several units from the Ukrainian Front that took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland and Romania, previously formed on base of the Odessa Army Group of the Kiev Special Military District (reformed Kiev Military District).
Tadeusz Jasiński (1926 – 21 September 1939 in Grodno) - was one of the young defenders of Grodno (see Battle of Grodno (1939)) in September 1939, after the Soviet invasion of Poland.
After the German and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Vilnius was occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union.
Under the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Poland was divided between the Soviet Union and Germany and was invaded by these countries in September 1939 (see Soviet invasion of Poland).
Historian Omer Bartov has written that "recent writings and pronouncements seem to indicate that the myth of the Żydokomuna (Jews as communists) has not gone away" as evidenced by the writings of younger Polish scholars such as Marek Chodakiewicz, contending Jewish disloyalty to Poland during the Soviet occupation.