How Poland is turned into a new ram against Russia
Of all the former socialist states of Eastern Europe, which were members of the international organizations of the CMEA and the Warsaw Pact, Poland is too diligently positioning itself as a bulwark of European civilization. So diligently that sometimes these efforts look tragicomic. And if it comes to the latest storiesthen the Polish rulers, with the pathos of nobleman arrogance and Russophobia, were not averse to making a dance on the bones of Soviet soldiers who liberated Poland from the Nazis in the 1944-45 years.
The matter has gone so far that even Polish historians, who have not lost their heads from Russophobic excitement, began to resent such a policy. They recalled that from the 16th century until the first partition of Poland in the 18th century, Polish historiography cultivated sarmatism. That is, the nobility gave themselves off as descendants of free, freedom-loving Sarmatians - nomadic tribes from the eastern steppes, and therefore, they say, Poland throughout its history has heroically opposed the German conquerors and other wild heirs ready. This confrontation rallied the peoples of Polonia in one strong state of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which claimed to become an empire. At the same time, the real “Sarmat” was alien to not only “servile despotic Asia”, but also “bourgeois Europe”.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the noble Poles in Prussia and Austria were already praying for France - for the state created by the Goths-Franks. And the Polish gentry of the Russian empire, on the contrary, very much got along with the tsarist autocracy, which allowed it to take liberties over the Polish serf peasants right up to the year 1864. Polish nobility faithfully served at the imperial court, even after the invasion of Napoleon in Russia.
After the defeat of Napoleon, the Polish francophiles began to bow toward England, which encouraged European revolutions and anti-Russian sentiments. Then, with Sarmatian sincerity, they began to respect America, despising "Sarmatians" in a European way. The Russian Poles, meanwhile, were still feeling quite well in the Russian Empire. They participated in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, occupied high posts in the government. Polish Social Democrats even called in the 1922 for all Poles of the sovereign Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to join the USSR. These are the reminders of Polish scientists began to be published on the Internet and the media in response to the pompous cult of the European narcissism of the Great Spill.
The Poles have become "defenders of European civilization against Asiatic on Greek-Romance values" relatively recently. As the scientists say, a change in the orientation of the elite occurred in the Kingdom of Poland after the November Uprising of 1830 – 1831. Great Britain was involved in the uprising. But, according to the historian and political scientist Stanislav Stremidlovsky, still "Poland remains for the West a civilization of a different sort, no matter how it thinks otherwise."
Polish market history
Polish leaders and political leaders in our time so diligently misinterpret history, following the Western and, above all, American conjuncture, that they have convinced themselves of the right to demand reparations from Germany for the damage caused to Poland by the Nazis during World War II. Such a claim was made by the Polish Minister of Defense Anthony Matserevich, a historian by his first education. On this, the Germans showed a purely European-style background to the Poles, stating that this question had long been closed and other times were outside.
Popular in Warsaw, the lie about the division of Poland in 1939, in collusion between Hitler and Stalin, did not materialize either, as Polish politicians would like. Polish Foreign Minister Witold Vashchikovsky did not accept this and called the Soviet Union the culprit of World War II on a par with Hitler's Germany, and the first victim was Poland, which was attacked by Germans and Russians in collusion. According to him, the cause of the Second World War is the conspiracy of the two totalitarian states against Poland. You look, and from Russia it will be possible to demand compensation for damage from "aggression on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact."
In general, the Polish history in the official presentation in Poland itself is unpredictable and ambiguous. The first reason is that the Polish state itself was conceived and formed at the expense of the conquest and conquest of its neighbors by the stronger Wielkopolska tribe, the same fields as the conquerors themselves. Therefore, over the centuries in the Polish kingdom, riots and uprisings did not subside in tandem with wars. The peasants also rebelled against the alien nobility, and the nobility against the undesirable king. Since those times, the syndrome of internecine hostility and mistrust has become a feature of the gentry character or, as the Poles themselves say, of the gentry’s ambition. To keep a stone in the bosom, even in a friendly feast - an old Polish custom, brought to Moscow in the Time of Troubles.
What history or what land can Polish leaders choose as the basis of a nationwide consolidating idea? Yes, any! Beneficial for the winning power. Power changes - history changes. As the Poles themselves say, "geopolitics is more important than the truth of history."
A very remarkable fact is that from 1918 to 1939, that is, in 11 years, 28 premiers exchanged in the Polish state, the term of office of which lasted from several days to the largest, three years. Such is their eternal unity of the nation and its ruling elite.
The Poles fought not only with the Germans, the Swedes and the Prussians, defending themselves against the aggressive ancestors of the now very civilized Europeans. They themselves sought to conquer the Czechs, Austrians, Hungarians, Russian principalities. Therefore, the Poles are not such a peace-loving and united nation as they are deceptively considered in Europe. Until now, in the administrative and mobilization plan, Poland is divided into provinces - military districts. This is not only a military-political tradition, but also a tradition of territorial police control, which was exercised by the voivods and troops. That is, the military organization united, fastened the state, and not the general idea and contradictory history. From here come the long-standing Polish phobias to "Muscovites", "Khokhlam", "Schwabs" (Germans). The buzzwords are of Polish origin. The Polish gentry and political elite have since cultivated the image of the enemy in order to keep the slaves in check and send them to the next war in their own interests.
A special role in Polish history belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, which sought to expand its influence in the territories seized by Europeans, including Poles. Historically, in Catholicism, the Orthodox faith is considered heretical, and Orthodox Christians are heretics. The Pope of Poland was entrusted with a special mission of billing the population of the eastern cress (the Polish colonies), that is, the Russian principalities. And it also strengthened the complex of militant Russophobia.
However, in Poland there is no single unifying ideology based on a common history. There is no such unity. Many Poles, if not most, are very friendly to the Russians and appreciate our common history. Some part bows before the Anglo-Saxons. Few sympathize with the French, keeping in mind the history of the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw by Napoleon. Extreme Russophobia and anti-Sovietism in the Polish People’s Republic were usually demonstrated by Polish Lithuanians. But this applies to those generations who lived and received education in Poland.
Now the official propaganda inspires a completely different world outlook for the young Poles, instigating Russophobia and fomenting warlike European arrogance and gentry ambition. There are a lot of similarities with ethnoengineering practiced in Ukraine, where they are trying to form an anti-Russian Ukrainian mononation with forced Ukrainization and the substitution of historical memory. Once, such methods were used to polish the Ukrainians in Galicia and Volyn, conquered by the Poles.
In Poland itself, under socialism, private property officially existed and there was a multi-party system. Citizens of people's Poland traveled to capitalist countries and were engaged in petty trade, hired there for work. It also reflected certain aspects of the Polish character and Polish economic policy of the time. Labor migration reduced unemployment and brought income to the treasury in foreign currency.
Second-rate Europeanism
Describing the new history and policy of Poland in the twentieth century, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called Poland "the European hyena." The Poles did not remain in debt and called him "the educated pig."
In confirmation of Churchill's aphoristic assessment, several examples from the Polish history of the 20th century can be cited. Poland's nationalists, led by dictator Jozef Pilsudski and his successors, using the weakness of neighboring states and the condescendingly-pragmatic attitude of the strong powers towards the Poles, sought to restore by force not only the greatness of the medieval Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but also its borders of times of past flourishing.
Such an attempt was made after Russia-RSFSR lost the First World War and began to disintegrate. Having barely restored the sovereignty of Poland, the Polish government immediately launched a war in Western Ukraine against ZUNR, which lasted from November 1 to 1918 of the year on July 17 of 1919 of the year and ended with the defeat of ZUNR. Then the Poles advanced into the depths of Belarus and Ukraine and occupied Minsk and Kiev. In October, 1920, Polish troops captured a part of Lithuania with the city of Vilna (Vilnius). This was done according to a certain ghostly historical right of Poland to the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Lithuanian lands.
In 1919, the Soviet-Polish war began to liberate Ukraine and Belarus from the Poles. The Red Army expelled the Polish invaders, but could not take Lviv and was defeated near Warsaw. The operations commanded by the Red Army were commanded by the front Russian Pole Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
After the so-called “Munich agreement”, under which Hitler received the leading European powers — Britain, France and Italy — in 1938, he received a “license” for the unimpeded accession to Germany of all Austria and for the partition of Czechoslovakia, Poland directly participated in the division of Czechoslovakia. In October 1938, Poland sent its troops to Czechoslovakia at the same time as Germany and annexed part of Czechoslovakia's Cieszyn region under the cover of an alliance with a strong aggressor supported by the leading countries of the world — the hyena got its piece from the prey of a larger predator.
By the end of the war, when the authority of the USSR in the world was extremely high and the Red Army became victorious, the Anglo-Saxon allies were alarmed by the high probability of the spread of communism in their countries and the seeming threat of socialist revolutions "brought by Soviet bayonets". British generals proposed a plan of operation "Unthinkable." According to this plan, the remnants of Hitler's troops re-united, strengthened by the German satellite forces, their combat effectiveness was restored, and then these forces, with the support of Britain and the United States, were to continue the war on the Eastern Front against the USSR.
The operation "Unthinkable" was planned to attract and the forces of the Polish army corps, known as the "Anders army." At that time he was in Italy under the command of the British. The corps was formed and armed on the territory of the USSR in 1941, numbering about 76 thousand people from Poles, allegedly shot by the NKVD in Katyn in 1940 year. Then he was transported via Iran to Italy. Did the Polish zholnezhi (soldiers) know about such plans? Hardly. But the Polish government in exile, pursuing an anti-Soviet policy to the detriment of the warring Poland, surely knew and waited for the moment to live at the expense of a new conspiracy of strong powers against the USSR.
But Operation Unthinkable did not start due to internal political circumstances in the conspiracy countries and as a result of the political measures taken by the Soviet government. Then the Americans conducted an atomic bombing of Japanese cities as an act of intimidation of the political and military leadership of the USSR. There was a plan to drop atomic bombs on the Soviet Union.
The instinct of "hyena" worked and with the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Poland (1991) and Germany (1994) in the USSR. The Polish government immediately increased the railway tariffs for Soviet military transport through its territory four times. Even "occupied" Germany and Lithuania did not allow themselves such.
But it is old. And what is the attitude of its new-old allies to Poland? In this regard, we will quote from the book of US political scientist George Friedman "The Next 100 Years. Forecast of the Events of the XXI Century", published in 2010 year.
In this book, Friedman predicts America's total supremacy in all areas of economic and political international relations, the prosperity of the North American continent throughout the 21st century, and even in the 22nd century. The political scientist not only predicts the future on the merits of a mega island that did not know war on its territory, but also describes the processes by which his prophecies will come true.
“The United States does not have to win wars. Their task is to systematically destroy all the enemy’s livelihood systems and thereby deprive him of the ability to accumulate enough strength to compete with America. On the one hand, the 21st century will witness a series of confrontations “they will try to form coalitions to control America’s behavior, and the United States, in turn, will conduct military operations to thwart such plans. There will be even more wars in the XXI century than in the XX, but their consequences will be less cat strophic, both because of the technological changes, and because of the nature of geopolitical problems. " Directly technical design specifications for hybrid and network-centric wars.
"At the beginning of the XXI century ... a new cold war will lead to the emergence of hot spots after the end of the war between the United States and Muslims." That is, the cold war is planned and inevitable, it will grow into local wars and armed conflicts that will begin as soon as the United States ceases to fight Muslims. Straining the nations, having provoked the wars, the Americans from the side will watch the events, adjusting their course. Isn’t it happening already in our time, seven years after the publication of Friedman’s book?
Friedman refers to US controlled allies only in Eastern Europe. Poland was chosen as such an ally, and the Poles know it. Germany defined the place of an outsider to the joy of Polish nationalists, it encourages their ambitions. In the updated strategy "Drang nach Osten" ("Offensive to the East"), the place of Nazi Germany will be taken by Poland.
"Poland has not been a great power since the 16th century. But once it was such ... and I think it will be again. Two factors will help to achieve this. The first is the future decline of Germany, whose economy, despite its impressive volume and continued growth, has lost its dynamism inherent in it over the past two centuries.In addition, over the next 50 years, the population of Germany will drastically decrease, which will undermine the already drained of the economic sector. The second factor will be the reluctance of the Germans to engage in a third war with Russia, despite the pressure that Russia will call on Poland from the east ... The USA will support Poland by offering it all possible economic and technical assistance (Aut. Like Germany in 30) If the war does not lead to the destruction of a certain country, it will stimulate economic growth in it, and Poland will become a leading player in a coalition of states located near Russia. " Still, the risk of the destruction of Poland for American ambitions will be? Yes. Why not? The Anglo-Saxons never gave guarantees to anyone. They have no friends, only interests.
According to the idea of Friedman, the head of the private intelligence and analytical company StrathFor, anti-Russian Russophobic sentiments in Eastern Europe are the political resource of the Anglo-Saxons, and above all the US financial oligarchy, in creating a hybrid fist against Moscow. Poland can enter it as a leader and a pillar of the eastern anti-Russian bloc, the Baltic states, Ukraine, as well as Turkey and the nationalists of the Caucasian republics. It is no coincidence that in 2016 a quarter of the top officers of the general command of the Polish army, including five key generals, were dismissed. What reason? Whether the next reorganization of Pilsudski on the eve of major events, or the disagreement of the generals on the special role of the Polish army in NATO. Maybe they saw that Poland is once again preparing the fate of the sacred sacrifice in Eastern Anglo-Saxon politics?
In the same vein as Friedman, Donald Trump spoke during his visit to Poland in July 2017, before the start of the G20 summit. He behaved himself as the instigator of Poland for a confrontation with Russia. During a briefing with Polish President Andrzej Duda, Trump expressed support for Warsaw: "We work with Poland and respond to Russian actions and Russia's destabilizing behavior." America is “committed to peace and security in Central and Eastern Europe,” Trump stressed, adding that “in response to Russia's actions and destabilizing behavior,” the United States intends to continue and expand its cooperation with Poland within NATO. He also promised to supply Warsaw with eight Patriot anti-aircraft batteries. Poland will have to pay 7,5 billion dollars for them. Ambitious "hyena" swallowed the bait and once again hopes to get his coveted jackpot, hiding behind NATO membership.
By the way, it would be remembered that Poland lost the world’s fifth in the Second World War. In relative numbers, this is more than in Germany and the Soviet Union. But the story of the "Hyena of Europe" has not taught anything.
On the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact"
There are so many political speculations and lies around the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that the Poles singled out a special argument for accusing the USSR of aggression - the “evil empire” of the 20th century, as actor and US President Ronald Reagan put it. Russian politicians during the years of perestroika tried their best in this.
The treaty between the USSR and Germany on non-aggression was signed on 23 August 1939, and was the last of such agreements between Germany and other European countries. This was already after the “Munich Agreement” between Germany, England, France and Italy took place and all proposals of the USSR on collective security were rejected. And after the partition of Czechoslovakia with the participation of Poland.
As if by chance, after 50 years at the height of the anti-Soviet and anti-communist euphoria, secret protocols to the Soviet-German treaty were discovered. And in the party, not the state archives. However, in the same way as the documents on the Katyn case. This "truth" was supervised by a member of the politburo and the main ideologist of the CPSU Central Committee, Alexander Yakovlev.
Protocols, annexes, supplementary agreements to any contract are a common practice of diplomatic relations and can be both secret and open upon the decision of the parties. But the thing is that the essence of the Soviet-German treaty of 23 August 1939, even with the secret protocols found in 1989, was distorted by anti-Soviet propaganda in order to show the Soviet Union as an aggressor, like Germany, and blame Hitler and Stalin in the outbreak of World War II. After the death of Yakovlev, the head of Polish diplomacy continues to deal with this.
However, even Russian historians do not notice a historical feature that changes the background and essence of this treaty. And she is like that. In early March 1918, the Soviet government signed the Brest Peace Treaty with Germany and its allies, according to which Russia withdrew from the war (capitulated) and lost its territories in the Baltic states, the Caucasus, Bessarabia, and territories of Western Ukraine and Belarus went to Poland. Soviet Russia was forced by the treaty to reduce the army and fleet, Germany received trade advantages in the RSFSR. In 1919, by a decision of the Council of People's Commissars, this agreement was canceled, but the borders were not restored. Parties to the agreement: the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and German empires broke up following the war. The Versailles Treaty of 1919 limited German sovereignty. The global economic crisis has begun. The RSFSR and then the USSR found themselves in an economic blockade and political isolation. And then legal grounds appeared for revising the consequences of the Brest Treaty.
Under the 1939 Treaty of the Year, Germany, which also suffered a defeat in the First World War, recognized the rights of the USSR "in the event of a change in the territorial borders of Poland." Moreover, the grounds for such recognition were more weighty historically than those that served for the annexation of Austria to Germany and the division of Czechoslovakia, approved by the Munich Agreement 1938. Poland by that time had become the same aggressor as Germany. And the war between Germany and Poland was already inevitable and the prerequisites for it were known to all European governments.
Poland and Germany much earlier signed a similar non-aggression pact - 26 January 1934 of the year, which could be called the Hitler-Pilsudski pact. Secret applications or protocols were added to it, which the French and English press wrote about during 1934. They dealt with the territories of Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania, which Poland claimed. In particular, the Poles intended to exchange the disputed Danzig port (Gdansk) to the Lithuanian port of Memel (Klaipeda), giving way to the so-called "Polish corridor" to the Germans. It was also about the military alliance of Germany, Poland and Japan against the USSR.
Apparently, on the basis of the Polish-German treaty 1934, Germany, after the partition of Czechoslovakia, demanded 21 in March, 1939, of some territorial concessions from Poland to join East Prussia. After all, allies. But Poland, without changing its traditions in politics, categorically refused with an eye on England and the Versailles Treaty. Furious with the refusal of Hitler 28 in March 1939 of the year tore up a non-aggression pact with Poland after the capture of Memel (the conditions of Poland) by German troops. And although Poland hoped for the help of England, she refused to enter into an anti-Hitler alliance with England, France and the USSR. All this together was the cause of the German-Polish war launched by 1 September 1939 of the year. Then from this date, historians will begin the countdown of the Second World War. And here is Stalin and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
Germany quickly defeated the Polish army. The Marshal of Poland and the Supreme Commander of the Polish troops in this war, Edward Rydz-Siglyi, together with the Polish government fled to Romania, and then through Hungary, also participating in the division of Czechoslovakia, moved to England. Poland at the most critical moment was left to the mercy of fate. England, although it declared war on Germany, was not going to fight for the liberation of Poland. Did she want this? No, don't. And only after this 17 of September 1939, did Soviet troops enter Western Belarus and Western Ukraine. Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples reunited. After the war, the BSSR and the Ukrainian SSR became independent members of the UN. Someone then recalled the events of the year 1939, as they interpret them now?
About the "Soviet occupation"
The "Soviet occupation" of Poland is another false skate of Polish anti-Soviet and Russophobic propaganda. The occupation of Poland by Soviet troops was not. Because Poland was not considered an enemy country, but was an ally, and power in the Polish republic at all levels was exercised by the Poles themselves. There was no occupying power as such, nor was the occupation regime established.
As a result of the war, the territories of Germany and East Prussia were annexed to Poland as compensation for losses in the war. Exclusively and only in these territories after the war remained two Soviet divisions, communications and rear units, reduced air force units with airfield support, which later became part of the Northern Group of Soviet Forces under the Warsaw Pact. There were no garrisons and units of Soviet troops on the historical Polish lands. But why the Polish nationalists do not lie in the spirit of NATO propaganda!
They also lie about the reasons for the failure of the Warsaw uprising, launched on 1 on August 1944, by the Home Army partisans on a team from London. Allegedly, Stalin deliberately stopped the Soviet offensive against Warsaw, so that as many of the insurgent Poles died, and then assumed the merit of taking Warsaw. Young people and especially civil Poles believe these nonsense. In fact, the Polish government in exile, while in London, defiantly refused to coordinate its actions in Poland with the Soviet leadership and the Polish National Liberation Committee. The reason - all the same gentry ambition and influence of England in their own interests.
The runaway Polish government and the British were politically advantageous and important to take the capital of Poland on their own before the approach of the Red Army and the Polish Army - the Polish army formed with the help of the USSR. The Warsaw uprising was launched without the consent of the Soviet command. Who did they count on? The political gamble of the London government and Churchill failed, and they blamed Stalin and Rokossovsky, a Russian Pole who commanded Soviet forces.
17 January 1945, Warsaw was liberated by the 1 Army of the Polish Army together with the Soviet troops, and by the beginning of February almost the whole of Poland was liberated from the Germans by the Red Army. Monuments of such a history are now destroyed by the current Polish government. Sarmatian is wild and European.
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