If you were wondering why Poland has been readying itself to go underground as an insurgency again in case of Russian re-invasion, we just saw a pretty strong reason for the Polish people to be at least mildly concerned…
“Russian Ambassador Says Poland Was Partly to Blame for World War II” – The New York Times
Ambassador [to Poland] Sergey Andreev of Russia on Friday described the Soviet Union’s 1939 invasion of Poland as an act of self-defense, not aggression.
Uh. In… in what way? That would require interwar Poland to have had threat capacity.
In an interview broadcast on the private TVN station, Mr. Andreev also said: “Polish policy led to the disaster in September 1939, because during the 1930s Poland repeatedly blocked the formation of a coalition against Hitler’s Germany. Poland was therefore partly responsible for the disaster which then took place.”
But… But the Soviet Union itself was in Hitler’s coalition in September 1939. So…how? What?
The Russian Ambassador to Poland’s version of 1939 history appears to be “Oops, the Soviet Union slipped in the tub and fell into Poland.” Or perhaps, at best, “We just had to invade Poland and all the Baltic states to create a bigger buffer zone between Hitler and the edge of the real Soviet Union.”
You know what? Never mind. This is too much nonsense to figure out.
Flag of Poland’s Home Army during World War II. (Credit: Bastianow – Wikimedia)
