Poland is undoubtedly responsible for the outbreak of world war.

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Poland is undoubtedly responsible for the outbreak of world war.


On September 28, Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreev was summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry. The reason for this, according to Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna, was an interview with S. Andreev on TVN 24, in which the ambassador declared that Poland “has partial responsibility” for the catastrophe of the Second World War. The minister described these words as “offensive”, resulting “from misunderstanding stories and the fact of how unjust and untrue they are. ” In a special report of the Polish Foreign Ministry, the statements of S. Andreev were described as undermining the “historical truth” and harming the Polish-Russian relations.

The view of Poland as an exclusively victim of Hitler’s aggression, which was established in historiography and public consciousness, for many decades evoked only natural sympathy for it. However, this view is only partly correct, and empathy for the victim of aggression cannot overshadow the whole picture of what happened in the 30 of the twentieth century. Both international law and criminal law know quite a few examples when not only random subjects (countries or people) but also accomplices of crime became the object of aggression on the part of the criminal. It is not by chance that, in her reaction to the words of the Russian diplomat, Mr. Shetyna and his subordinates didn’t go further than emotion and lamenting about the “lack of understanding of history”: there is nothing for them to cover.

The Russian ambassador, recalling that during the 30 of the last century, Poland had repeatedly blocked attempts to create a coalition to contain Nazi Germany, said far from everything. In fact, Poland did not just put a spoke in the wheels of the forces that were trying to create a collective security system in Europe, and above all to the Soviet Union, but also directly solidarized with Hitler’s expansionist plans.

When September 30 1938 in Munich, Prime Ministers of Great Britain and France N. Chamberlain and E. Daladier put their signatures next to the signatures of A. Hitler and B. Mussolini under the agreement that had committed the aggressors to Czechoslovakia for slaughter, in Warsaw they rubbed their hands in waiting for an easy profit. Back in May, French Foreign Minister J. Bonnet told the Polish ambassador that the plan "on the division of Czechoslovakia between Germany and Hungary with the transfer of Cieszyn Silesia to Poland is not a secret." Warsaw, the very next day after the signing of the Munich Agreement, demanded that the Cieszyn region (Cieszyn Silesia) be handed over to her and, without waiting for an official response, occupied Czechoslovak territory. Here the Poles even outstripped Hitler, who gave Czechoslovakia to clean the Sudetenland region, inhabited by the Germans, 10 days.

Note by the Ambassador of Poland in Czechoslovakia K. Pape to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia K. Krofte from September 30 1938 is a tracing from the Hitler note to Prague regarding the Sudetentes: the same references to the “intolerable position” of the Polish population in Teshino Oblast, the categorical conclusion that only the “territorial concession” of the respective territories in favor of Poland can normalize bilateral relations and, moreover, impose responsibility for the consequences on the Czechoslovak side in the event of its refusal to fulfill the impudent demands of Warsaw.

The coercion of Czechoslovakia was committed by the will of the Western democracies. But there was still the Soviet Union, which could disrupt the plans of the Munich Four, because it was bound by a treaty of mutual assistance with Czechoslovakia. True, the fulfillment of this treaty required one important condition: that the Red Army could cross the Polish territory separating the USSR from Czechoslovakia. Poland categorically rejected the request for the passage of troops, which was brought to the attention of all interested governments. Thus, the Polish ambassador in Paris, Yu. Lukasevich, assured his colleague from the USA, W. Bullitt, that his country would immediately declare war on the Soviet Union if it tried to send troops through its territory to the borders of Czechoslovakia.

Not everyone in Europe was so naive not to understand that the territorial concessions on the part of the Western democracies at the expense of third countries would only incite Germany’s appetite for new acquisitions, and Hitler should be put in a bargaining agreement with Moscow. In opposition, Winston Churchill told the House of Commons: “We will be in mortal danger if we cannot create a great alliance against aggression. It would be the greatest folly if we would reject the natural cooperation with Soviet Russia. "

21 March 1939 British Ambassador William Sids presented the USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs MM. Litvinov’s draft declaration of Great Britain, USSR, France and Poland, according to which the governments of four countries undertook to “confer on the steps that should be taken for general resistance” to actions that “threaten the political independence of any European state” and affect the world and security in Europe. Although the project was extremely vague and did not suggest effective action to curb the aggression, the Soviet government agreed to sign it on March 23. Poland also gave a negative opinion on the project. London, citing its position, a week later abandoned its initiative.

The short-sighted stance of Warsaw had a fatal effect on the fate of the military convention of the USSR, Great Britain and France, which had not become a reality, which, if signed, would have created a military fist against which Hitler would not stand. Moscow negotiations on the conclusion of such a convention were held in August 1939. The capacity of the document largely depended on the positive decision of the “cardinal issue” - such a definition in the diplomatic correspondence received the consent of Poland and Romania to pass the Red Army troops through their territory.

The report of the subcommittee of the English Chiefs of Staff Committee, submitted to the 17 Cabinet of Ministers on August 1939, contained a recommendation of the following nature: “Concluding a treaty with Russia seems to us the best way to prevent war. The successful conclusion of this treaty will undoubtedly be jeopardized if the proposals on cooperation with Poland and Romania put forward by the Russians will be rejected by these countries ... We would like to emphasize that, from our point of view, if necessary, the strongest pressure should be exerted on Poland and Romania, so that they give consent in advance to the use of the territory by the Russian forces in the event of a German attack. ” However, the British Cabinet was drawing, hoping to reach an agreement with Germany behind the back of the USSR, and declined the pressure in Warsaw that was necessary in this case.

More optimistically, the head of the French delegation at the Moscow talks, General A. Dumenc, and the French ambassador to Moscow, E. Najiyar, assessed the condition of the Soviet delegation with regard to Poland as justified. In a telegram sent by 15 August to Paris, Nadzhiyar wrote: “We are offered precisely certain assistance in the East and do not put forward any additional demands for help from the West. But the Soviet delegation warns that Poland, by its negative position, makes it impossible to create a resistance front with the participation of Russian forces. ”

The “cardinal question”, on which the fate of the military convention of the three countries depended, was never resolved: Warsaw and Bucharest shied away from the prospect of passing Soviet troops, as hell with incense. In the evening of August 19, Marshal E. Rydz-Smigly (in fact, the second person in the state after the president) said: "Regardless of the consequences, not a single inch of Polish territory will ever be allowed to be occupied by Russian troops." Foreign Minister J. Beck told L. Noel, the French ambassador to Warsaw: “We will not allow any form ... to discuss the use of part of our territory by foreign troops.”

The chance that Moscow talks provided for the formation of a united anti-fascist front in Europe was missed. The Soviet leadership, set before the prospect of being in international isolation, went to the signing of the Soviet-German non-aggression treaty, which in Western capitals and in Warsaw has long been trying to announce the trigger of World War II. No need to shift from a sore head to a healthy one, gentlemen. You yourself have done everything to whet Hitler's appetites, but contrary to your anti-Soviet plans, you yourself were hit by the aggressor.

Poland had to regret its short-sightedness, becoming the next victim of Nazi Germany. The Poles did not notice the shadow of the imperial eagle advancing from the west with a swastika in its claws, being passionate about first the prospect of participating in the section of Czechoslovakia, and after 30 of September 1938 of the year - and the rejection of Cieszyn Silesia from it.

Such actions of the Polish military and diplomacy gave W. Churchill the undiplomatic name of Poland as the "hyena of Europe". A hyena is an animal so well known for its existence that there is no need to explain why the former British prime minister resorted to this analogy.

By the way, having participated in the section of Czechoslovakia, Warsaw also dreamed of the division of the USSR. Back in December, 1938 in the report of the intelligence department of the General Staff of the Polish Army emphasized: “The dismemberment of Russia lies at the basis of Polish policy in the East ... Therefore, our possible position will be reduced to the following formula: who will take part in the section. Poland should not remain passive at this remarkable historical moment ... The main goal is to weaken and defeat Russia. ” Poles were not limited to staff development. In January, 1939, in negotiations with his German counterpart, I. von Ribbentrop, the Polish Foreign Minister J. Beck drew the attention of the interlocutor to the fact that "Poland claims to be Soviet Ukraine and to access to the Black Sea."

It should be understood that the Polish Army was going to join the Wehrmacht on these frontiers.

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... True, his eyes hurt. Having no weighty arguments as opposed to the statements of the Russian ambassador, Poland threatens him with expulsion. We dare to give such politically sensitive Polish politicians a piece of advice: at the same time throwing the works of the Nobel Prize in literature Winston Churchill to the dump, with the skill of an outstanding politician and an outstanding writer who printed the “hyena” to the pillory. Against the background of Churchill's statements about Poland, Ambassador Andreev’s assessment is the height of diplomatic delicacy.
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  1. +7
    3 October 2015 05: 58
    Poland was divided several times, I think the time will come, we will divide it again.
    1. -3
      3 October 2015 09: 57
      Poles were in Moscow several times. I think the time will come, they will be again. But seriously, Germany today is pensioners and immigrants. This is not good material for aggressive politics. Ho, without the help of the Germans, Russia can only divide Siberia in the cooperation of China with China. Today, Russia is so weak that it asks Poland, Romania and Hungary to divide Ukraine. But let the Russians and Ukrainians play with themselves.
      1. -2
        3 October 2015 10: 13
        ... swallow dust laughing
      2. +4
        3 October 2015 10: 26
        You’re like jackals, the Germans burned you in millions, you’re afraid of yapping at them, but for Katyn you’re already climbing shit, (for 39 years) ....
        1. +6
          3 October 2015 14: 28
          Quote: Igor39
          and for Katyn
          where the Germans of the Poles by thousands of rotions, letters from the dead Poles in Katyn were found with the dates March 1942 of the year. Yes, in Katyn, sentences of the highest measure were carried out, in relation to officers who showed cruelty to the Russian and Ukrainian population of Poland. But the Polish military was driven to the Katyn camp precisely because the Polish government in exile declared war on the USSR because of the return of part of the territory of Lithuania. Note that the war was not declared after the Red Army entered Western Belarus and Ukraine, but after the war.
          1. +2
            3 October 2015 17: 15
            At the site of the execution of the Poles in Katyn, until the outbreak of war, there were pioneer camps.
        2. +4
          3 October 2015 22: 20
          This is the catch. Such as the Poles need a strict master like the Germans, they adore him, their lackey soul is absolutely happy. And ours treated the Poles as equals, which is unacceptable with lackeys. Kholui immediately loses its banks and considers himself cooler and higher in the food chain than the owner. For example, the Poles are sure that it was they who won the Great Patriotic War, despite the fact that we simply allowed them to participate under our flag. They even have a saying - "The Polish Jacek took Berlin while the Russian Ivan slept on the stove." Now they are absolutely happy, having thrust their tongue up to the tonsils in the American ass.
      3. +4
        3 October 2015 11: 08
        Quote: budguy
        Poles were in Moscow several times.

        Yes there were what? But they could not boast of the keys to Moscow, and the keys to Warsaw were VERY long stored in Moscow, and only EBN, I don’t know for what reason I gave them to Poland in the 90s of the 20th century ...
        1. +2
          3 October 2015 14: 40
          Quote: svp67
          Poles were in Moscow several times.
          Some didn’t make it, but specify: how much is “several”. It's like in a cartoon: three nuts are a heap? no! And four nuts is a heap? No. And how much is when a bunch? This is when there is a lot! Here the Germans were once as an exposition to the message of the Soviet Information Bureau that in the battles for Belarus, about forty thousand prisoners of war from the Wehrmacht were taken prisoner. It is a pity that the Poles have not done this in our history. Then one could say for sure how many times the Poles have visited Moscow.
          1. 0
            4 October 2015 01: 16
            Quote: shasherin.pavel
            but specify: how much is "several".
            Most likely he meant 1612 and 1812 ...
        2. +1
          3 October 2015 23: 37
          Moreover, with the sound of SUVOROV, the reaction is indescribable, similar to tetanus.
          The Polish gentry always wanted to eat too large a piece, which they always choked on.
    2. +2
      3 October 2015 11: 47
      Share and Russify.
  2. +6
    3 October 2015 06: 05
    The pact on cooperation in the military sphere "Hitler - Pilsutsky" was the true beginning of the unwinding of the spiral of a new, Second World War. The death of Pilsutsky himself (most likely not accidental) only suspended this process, but, as we know, not completely. The rest is not very important, it is important to start, "the process has begun," as the well-known "figure" later said.
  3. +1
    3 October 2015 06: 31
    True eye pricks.
    1. avt
      +8
      3 October 2015 08: 21
      Quote: Andryukha G
      True eye pricks.

      They have now decided to live according to the principle - “Your shit doesn’t smell.” For nothing, old man W. Churchill seemed to put it simply and elegantly - “Poland is the hyena of Europe”. The roots of hatred for Russia as a whole do not even lie in the times of the partition of Poland. Much earlier . To this day, at the genetic level, they are complex that their imperial project is, from Mozha to Mozha, but as a SINGLE noble nation in which ALL the rest are in fact in service, what is called find 10 differences from the 3rd Reich, has failed miserably and now they have the fate of a "junior partner", but in fact a slave on a leash USA. An even more flimsy project, but more steeply involved in Nazism, for which the USA has diligently kept the staff from 1944 behind SS and other Reich intelligence services, is today's Ukraine. These generally "birthright" are diligently sold not even for lentil stew - for a slice under the name of a sandwich.
      1. +4
        3 October 2015 09: 04
        Quote: avt
        ... "Poland is the hyena of Europe". The roots of hatred for Russia as a whole do not even lie in the times of the partition of Poland. Much earlier . To this day, at the genetic level, they complex that their imperial project is, from Mozha to Mozha, but as a SINGLE noble nation in which ALL the rest are in fact in service, as they say, find 10 differences from the 3rd Reich, failed miserably and now they have the fate of a "junior partner", but in fact a slave on a USA leash. An even more flimsy project, but more abruptly involved in Nazism, for which the USA diligently retained personnel from 1944 for SS and other Reich secret services, is today's Ukraine. These generally "birthright" are diligently sold not even for lentil stew - for a slice under the name of a sandwich.

        I will add a little, for clarity. The term "Poland - the hyena of Europe" has an even more ancient meaning: Poland, in Latin (the original term) "Polonia" comes from the ancient, purely Russian word "full", that is, "production", "goods", that is, what in the ancient world the Vikings traded in booty from military campaigns (robberies). So even the name of the country itself speaks for itself.
      2. +1
        3 October 2015 11: 10
        Quote: avt
        They now decided to live by the principle - "Your shit doesn't smell"
        In, in. If anyone wants to, read HOW Poland fought for Vilna (present-day Vilnius) and the Vilna Territory in the 20s, well, VERY many interesting things, and most importantly, you’ll learn something terribly modern ...
        1. avt
          0
          3 October 2015 20: 53
          Quote: svp67
          . If anyone wants to, read HOW Poland fought for Vilna (present-day Vilnius) and the Vilna Territory in the 20s, well, VERY many interesting things, and most importantly, you’ll learn something terribly modern ..

          Well, let's not only put it. As the Poles love to remember about the "Miracle on the Vistula", well, when the congenial future Marshal Tukhachevsky stupidly could not organize military reconnaissance and lost the Polish army for FOUR WEEKS, about which he wrote in his memoirs - that he knew for sure - all one where someday and someday he will find and smash them, (I wonder if Stalin had not reassured him and he would have led the troops the same way in 1941? It's scary to imagine where the Germans would have been if he had lost them for 4 weeks.) in general, from the ATTACK of the Poles on Soviet Russia, while the main units and Budyonny were fighting near Perekop, the Poles rushed and took Kiev. I had to leave the Crimea and knock them out.
  4. +1
    3 October 2015 06: 36
    History cannot be knocked out of consciousness by an ax. even if the impossible is admitted, there is a mass of documents.
    So zheks would sit on their paws, and not twitch against history. And do not let dust in the eyes of others! hi
  5. +1
    3 October 2015 06: 44
    One interesting historical incident. All the Slavs were taken to Wafenn SS, except for one Slavic nation. They took Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Serbs in general, all except psheks. This should already say that even the Teutons treat them like g ... y. So what is there to talk about.
    1. +2
      3 October 2015 07: 19
      For the same reason, the bulk of the concentration camps were located in POLAND.
      1. 0
        3 October 2015 09: 48
        Quote: 56_br
        For the same reason, the bulk of the concentration camps were located in POLAND.

        Here the reason, I think, is somewhat different.
        Many Jews lived in Poland. There is purely German pragmatism. Why should we catch Jews somewhere, if the Poles do it perfectly.
        In addition to the Poles, the Balts and Western Ukrainians were noted in the extermination of Jews.
        1. +1
          3 October 2015 14: 44
          Jews lived all over Europe, but as Himmler said during preliminary interrogation: Camps for Jews were built where there were volunteers to kill Jews. "
    2. 0
      3 October 2015 09: 39
      The reason is simple. Hitler wanted obedient slaves and no lords.
  6. +1
    3 October 2015 07: 09
    Psheks are genetic traitors. Their arrogance goes ahead of reason and conscience. There are of course exceptions, but they are not defining.
  7. +3
    3 October 2015 07: 13
    The Austrian officer Pilsudski created Poland with Austrian and American volunteers and with the help of the German occupation administration. And even after the death of the first dictator, his successors did not change politics at all, they also appointed themselves dictators and talked about the republic. What politician could believe such * figures *? So Hitler did not believe, the more Poles gave many reasons to doubt the independence of Poland and the sanity of the leadership. Modern Polish * rulers * are also distinguished by increased quarrelsomeness and lies about the past, contrary to their own history.
  8. +3
    3 October 2015 08: 05
    The view of Poland as exclusively a victim of Hitler aggression, established in historiography and public consciousness, for many decades aroused only natural sympathy for it.


    Yes, the ambassador's statement, quite accurate and fair, completely destroys the Polish concept of Poland as a Motherland torn apart by aggressors, a country of martyrs and heroes, the last bastion of the West before the Asian hordes. It is only a great pity that this speech did not sound several decades earlier, when it was more relevant, and the mantras that have become established in historiography have not yet been so reiterated. Now they are perceived by Poland only as "an excuse for Katyn." It was necessary to show a photo where Beck poses next to Hitler and Goering, and the same Goering, in a friendly way, informally arrives in Poland to hunt, etc. And the Poland-Germany pact of 1934, about which the Poles are trying to quickly forget and hide the ends. I understand that the ambassador, by virtue of his position, cannot speak about much, but for this there are other officials who could express everything in response to Polish claims. The time for this has long come and silence can be very costly for us.
  9. +1
    3 October 2015 08: 24
    That is why Poland is in every way now flirting with the USA and licking their ass, acting in the wake of their attempts to rewrite the history of the Second World War. Otherwise, if the whole truth is revealed, Poland will have to share responsibility with the Nazi aggressors at the second Nuremberg tribunal.
  10. 0
    3 October 2015 09: 24
    The most important thing is not that Poland was involved in the beginning of World War 2, but that it is now in the orbit of those states that rewrite the history of the war, that’s such an angry reaction from here.
  11. +3
    3 October 2015 09: 36
    Finally, Russian officials began to poke our "partners" with their noses into their own poop. I hope this is just a warm-up.
    1. 0
      3 October 2015 14: 46
      After Putin exposed the Prime Minister of Poland in ignorance of the history of World War II
      Quote: Dudinets
      Russian officials began to poke our "partners" into their poop. I hope this is just a warm-up.
  12. +1
    3 October 2015 09: 54
    To be honest, I’m tired that we are shy about something. We must always tell the truth, declassify and publish real historical documents. And to publish them not in some little-known historical collections, but in the media, on foreign resources
    Otherwise, we will justify ourselves and apologize.
  13. +1
    3 October 2015 10: 07
    ... True, it hurts my eyes...Poland - the hyena of Europe, as were it and have remained ..that and the whole truth ..
  14. 0
    3 October 2015 10: 08
    Quote: Born in the USSR
    One interesting historical incident. All the Slavs were taken to Wafenn SS, except for one Slavic nation. They took Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Serbs in general, all except psheks. This should already say that even the Teutons treat them like g ... y. So what is there to talk about.

    The reason is simple. Hitler wanted obedient slaves and no lords
  15. -3
    3 October 2015 10: 13
    The politics of any country depend on the ruling elite. Plant a friendly government in Poland and the country will be fully adequate and relations with it will change. This can be seen in the example of present-day Ukraine, whose puppet government is leading its completely friendly people to Russia in the wake of the confrontation with our country.
    In Poland there was always 50 to 50. There were always not only enemies but also friends.
    During the Time of Troubles, we fought mainly not with Poland, but with Hetman Chodkiewicz, a magnate, and an independent ruler, and his warriors were entirely Orthodox. The boyars themselves invited the Polish king to the kingdom, so for a long time in his title he had “Tsar of Moscow”.
    Somehow everyone forgot Augustus the Strong, an ally of Peter, who alone fought with Charles while Russia gathered forces after Narva.
    All Polish uprisings were not nationwide, many Poles fought on our side.
    Then Born in the USSR rejoices that the Poles, unlike the others in the SS, were not taken. Of course they didn’t take it, they fought with the Germans from the 39th, when we had friendship with Hitler. The Poles did not go to the SS. And the Lithuanians did not go. And the Serbs were not there.
    But we were Ukrainians. Be proud, Born.
    We blew Poland ourselves. Attention should be paid to neighbors. Now they purged Ukraine. All you need is to have a thin ruling layer on your side, that’s the whole secret, the Americans understand this, we don’t.
  16. 0
    3 October 2015 11: 28
    Poles now have no time to delve into history, they now share the virtual gold of the Reich.
  17. +3
    3 October 2015 11: 39
    The article in InoSmi was - Jewish pogroms: an interview with the author of a shocking book ("Newsweek Polska", Poland) An interview with the author of the book "Cities of Death: Jewish Neighborhood Pogroms" Mirosław Tryczyk.
    http://inosmi.ru/world/20151002/230579127.html

    It turns out that the Poles are the go-ahead of the Germans and on their own in black they killed Jews in at least 128 settlements. And how they are positioning themselves now.
  18. +3
    3 October 2015 12: 46
    "True, for the implementation of this treaty, one important condition was required: that the troops of the Red Army could cross the Polish territory separating the USSR from Czechoslovakia. Poland categorically rejected the request for the passage of troops, which was brought to the attention of all interested governments." ... which contradicted international the law of that time, even in those days the West did not strictly observe ... or rather, it never did, but demanded it from Russia / USSR.
  19. -2
    3 October 2015 14: 58
    On the one hand, I understand everything: the rules of grammar and everything else, but I am jarring from such "Indisputable", "lack of rights", "lawlessness". Now, if we take the word Lord - then we can see: Peak, height, Highest + spod, vizhnik. And if we look at the "demon of the law," the demon is right, no doubt. The story with the letter "E" repeats itself, so few people know that all French words end with "E": Mireille Mateu, Richelieu, etc. What else do we want to forget? What does the demon rule?

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