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Ok, I was going off what a Serbian language major told me in college.

Yugoslav means literally 'greater glory'. Or Greater Slavia. Ethnic antagonism wouldn't allow it.

Given the territorial gains, sure. Overall given the memory of Soviet occupation and general seeming disregard for the German occupation today the Soviet one seems to have left the worse impression.

Probably not. There was probably a considerable overlap as with Nazism and Communism within Germany. No the reason is Fascist Poles were Polish nationalists first and Leftist Poles were internationalists who looked at the Soviets as ideological brothers and were willing to sell out their own...

They tried that and were defeated. Turns out the NKVD were more effective than the Gestapo since Communist Poles were willing to collaborate against their countrymen in a way no one was with the Germans.

Not that I can find. It was done to liberate the city before the Soviets got there so they could present themselves as the rightful authority in Poland for the government in exile to return to. As a byproduct it would make the Soviet advance easier of course, which they could use in bargaining...

You don't think there would be a resistance movement that is larger in 1944-45 against the Soviets? Or that there would be a later uprising as part of the Vistula-Oder offensive?

What if the Polish underground realized that the situation was too risky to launch a revolt against the German occupation and refrained from uprising? ITTL they would wait for the Soviets to drive out the Germans and maintain more passive resistance in the meantime. What then happens in the...