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Three decades ago, Poland lived in fear of waking up on any morning to see the Russians marching through Warsaw’s streets. On Tuesday, that fear will be realized. Of course, it won’t be the Red Army coming to crush the 1981–’82 democratic uprising, but instead the thousands of Russian soccer fans who have vowed to march through the Polish capital ahead of their national team’s Euro 2012 showdown with co-host nation Poland. For many Poles, the 20,000 Russian fans expected in the city, including some ultra-nationalists, will be no more welcome than the Soviets would have been 30 years ago.