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…
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: “The 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. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.” Playwright Harold Pinter’s acceptance speech for the 2005 Noble Prize for Literature...
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: “The 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. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.” Playwright Harold Pinter’s acceptance speech for the 2005 Noble Prize for Literature...