Nonaggression pact
It attacked Poland from the east as part of the nazi-soviet pact.
The Invasion of Poland, 1939 and "the 1939 Defensive War in Germany, was carried out by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and a small German-allied Slovak contingent. Germany captured the Soviet-occupied areas of Poland when it invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, and lost the territory in 1944 to an advancing Red Army.
soviet union
The Soviet invasion of Poland was informally declared on September 17, 1939. The invasion ended on October 6, 1939 with the division and annexing of Poland by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
No. Hitler had a Pact with the Soviet Union that split Poland between them. The invasion of Poland lead Britain and France to declare war on Germany. The Soviets entered the war when Hitler invaded Russia.
The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union also invaded Poland around the same time. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 from the West, and the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17th of the same year from the East.
Germany invaded Poland from the West on the 1st September 1939, then Britain and France declared war on Germany, September 2, 1939.
The Soviet Union (USSR) divided Poland with Germany.
Germany and the Soviet Union invasion of Poland in Sept. 1939
Poland was invaded & occupied by both Germany & the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was never part of the Axis. In 1939, they did form an agreement with Germany over the invasion of Poland but this was terminated in 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.