Why would Stalin have helped Poland? Hitler and Stalin agreed to partition Poland before the Nazis attacked and Hitler respected the Soviet presence in Poland. One of the many reasons it is appropriate to consider Germany and Russia as allies in this phase of WWII
Why would Stalin have helped Poland? Hitler and Stalin agreed to partition Poland before the Nazis attacked and Hitler respected the Soviet presence in Poland. One of the many reasons it is appropriate to consider Germany and Russia as allies in this phase of WWII
If I recall correctly, Stalin was originally interested in constraining Hitler's Germany, and sought ways to support Czechoslovakia, and then Poland. However, the Poles refused to grant access through their country for Soviets to access CZ. And of course, the Poles were also worried about Soviets intrusions in their country, and tried to establish a middle path of independence from both Germany and the USSR - keenly aware of past aggressions from both sides.
Why? given the industrial-military power of Germany, bolstered by the occupation of Czechoslovakia and Skoda factories and its huge ammunition depots, Russia had only to fear of a German attack. Stalin moved USSR border in Poland as a way to fight there rather than on Russian territory... The plan didn't work. Even Churchill agreed that while stinky, it was the right military strategic move. Nobody is saying anything about UK destroying the French Navy parked in Oran after France's capitulation, or about UK invading Madagascar. As Mr. Tooze just showed in one of hist latest postings, the last war between UK and France was between 1940 and 1942, while they were allied... Do you think UK was right to do what it did, while Russia wasn't?
So all this talk about Russia/USSR starting WWII and Russia working with Germany to occupy Poland is just a reinterpretation of history to fill the bottomless pit that is the Polish ego as well as to forever condemn Russia as being on par with Nazi Germany; US always trying to put itself on the high moral horse - successfully, despite the reality: тАЬThe crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. ItтАЩs a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.тАЭ Playwright Harold PinterтАЩs acceptance speech for the 2005 Noble Prize for Literature...
Why would Stalin have helped Poland? Hitler and Stalin agreed to partition Poland before the Nazis attacked and Hitler respected the Soviet presence in Poland. One of the many reasons it is appropriate to consider Germany and Russia as allies in this phase of WWII
If I recall correctly, Stalin was originally interested in constraining Hitler's Germany, and sought ways to support Czechoslovakia, and then Poland. However, the Poles refused to grant access through their country for Soviets to access CZ. And of course, the Poles were also worried about Soviets intrusions in their country, and tried to establish a middle path of independence from both Germany and the USSR - keenly aware of past aggressions from both sides.
Why? given the industrial-military power of Germany, bolstered by the occupation of Czechoslovakia and Skoda factories and its huge ammunition depots, Russia had only to fear of a German attack. Stalin moved USSR border in Poland as a way to fight there rather than on Russian territory... The plan didn't work. Even Churchill agreed that while stinky, it was the right military strategic move. Nobody is saying anything about UK destroying the French Navy parked in Oran after France's capitulation, or about UK invading Madagascar. As Mr. Tooze just showed in one of hist latest postings, the last war between UK and France was between 1940 and 1942, while they were allied... Do you think UK was right to do what it did, while Russia wasn't?
So all this talk about Russia/USSR starting WWII and Russia working with Germany to occupy Poland is just a reinterpretation of history to fill the bottomless pit that is the Polish ego as well as to forever condemn Russia as being on par with Nazi Germany; US always trying to put itself on the high moral horse - successfully, despite the reality: тАЬThe crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. ItтАЩs a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.тАЭ Playwright Harold PinterтАЩs acceptance speech for the 2005 Noble Prize for Literature...