— 20.03.2012
This video proudly walked around the Internet for several days.
It didn’t take much effort to guess its purpose. The commentators were lethargic.
And the enthusiasm of the “fake film makers” somehow quickly faded away.
The Soviet state did not yet have that military power in 1939 to show off at parades!
And the tactics of “intimidation” are not in honor of the Russians!
Reminds me of that fake
Well, that's a decent answer...
HYENA OF EASTERN EUROPE
"THE STATE MAKES THE NATION, AND NOT THE NATION MAKES THE STATE"
Jozef Piłsudski
We (Poland) could find a place on the Reich side almost the same as Italy
and, for sure, better than Hungary or Romania.
As a result, we would be in Moscow, where Adolf Hitler with Rydz-Smigly would host the parade
victorious Polish-German troops"
(Polish professor Pavel Wieczorkiewicz).
Post about the “Soviet-German parade” in Brest in 1939 - video fake
This “parade” supposedly “proves” that the USSR was a “loyal ally of Nazi Germany”
and meanly tortured the kind and fluffy Poles.
The pact between the USSR and Germany of 1939 has been in use for almost half a century
“black propaganda” to prove the thesis about “Russia’s aggressiveness”,
and as a basis for constant arrogantly boorish “claims” against it from Poland. 
Hitler and Polish Foreign Minister Beck
Consider Poland from 1933 to 1939, when the Nazis became the dominant force in Germany.
This post will prove that the USSR’s position towards Poland in 1939 was completely justified.
The Polish elite, right up to September 1, 1939, planned to do exactly the same thing with the USSR,
what the USSR did with it later - dismemberment and subsequent destruction and hoped
to a military alliance with Hitler's Germany.
The Polish leadership behaved in exactly the same way towards its neighbors - Lithuania and Czechoslovakia.
Until the very last moment, the Polish leadership did not stop the closest contacts
with the German Nazis and made far-reaching plans for a “war with Russia.” 
Hitler-Pilsudski Pact
In 1934, the German Nazis and the Polish leadership concluded
"Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and Poland"
also called the Pilsudski-Hitler Pact.
It, just like the Soviet-German Pact of 1939, contained the principles of non-intervention
into each other’s internal affairs and stipulated by the so-called. "areas of interest" in Europe,
in particular in Czechoslovakia and the Baltic states.
photo from the signing of the pact.
Goebbels and Piłsudski
The first photo with J. Pilsudski, Beck in Warsaw. Other photos of his visit to the city of Krakow in June 1934. 
It is clear here that it was a warm meeting with flowers, with an interesting cultural program in museums,
historical places, with a banquet attended by famous Polish statesmen. 
Here is a photo of the dinner party in honor of Joseph Goebbels with the Polish Sejm
with the participation of deputies and Polish leaders. 
After the death of Piłsudski, friendly relations between the two states did not end:
On January 31, 1938, the head of the Nazi police visited Warsaw General Dalyuge,
in September 1938 – General Zamorsky(chief of the Polish police)
was invited by Nazi friends to the congress of the National Socialist Party of Germany,
took place in Nuremberg. On December 15, the German Minister of Justice visited Warsaw Herman Frank,
and on February 18, 1939 - head of the SS and chief chief of the Gestapo Heinrich Himmler.
Polish Foreign Minister Beck in Germany:
The Polish delegation laying flowers at the eternal flame to the fallen German soldiers
Poland and Czechoslovakia
The most clearly aggressive plans of the pre-war Polish elite are visible in the example
relations of the Polish leadership towards Czechoslovakia.
Immediately after World War I, territorial dispute between Poland and Czechoslovakia
worsened in Cieszyn Silesia.
This area, around which the dispute erupted, is rich in coal,
was the most industrialized region in all of Austria-Hungary.
An armed conflict began, and in 1920, Czechoslovak President Tomas Masaryk declared,
that if the Cieszyn conflict is resolved not in favor of Czechoslovakia, his country will intervene
in the recently started Russian-Polish war.
Poland, frightened by the prospect of a war on two fronts, made concessions.
what happened in Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1938 in chronological order.
Beck and the German generals
February 23, 1938.
Beck, in negotiations with Goering, declares Poland's readiness to take German interests into account
in Austria and emphasized Poland's interest "in the Czech problem."
August 11, 1938- in a conversation with Lipsky, the German side expressed understanding
Poland's interest in Soviet territory Ukraine.
September 19, 1938- Lipski brings to Hitler's attention the opinion of the Polish government,
that Czechoslovakia is an "artificial entity" and supports Hungarian claims
in relation to the territory Carpathian Rus'.
September 20, 1938- Hitler tells Lipsky that in the event of a military conflict
Poland and Czechoslovakia because of the Cieszyn region, the Reich will side with Poland, which is beyond the line
German interests, Poland has completely free hands, what he sees solution to the Jewish problem
by emigrating to the colonies in agreement with Poland, Hungary and Romania.
September 24, 1938. Newspaper "Pravda" 1938. September 24. N264 (7589). on S.5. publishes an article
"Polish fascists are preparing a putsch in Cieszyn Silesia."
Later, on the night of September 25, in the town of Konskie near Třinec, the Poles threw hand grenades at
and fired at houses in which Czechoslovak border guards were located, as a result of which two buildings burned down.
After a two-hour battle, the attackers retreated into Polish territory.
Similar clashes occurred that night in a number of other places in the Teshin region.
September 25, 1938. The Poles raided the Frishtat railway station,
They fired at her and threw grenades at her.
September 27, 1938. The Polish government makes a renewed demand
about the “return” of the Teshin region to her.
Throughout the night, rifle and machine gun fire was heard in almost all areas of the Teshin region,
grenade explosions, etc. The bloodiest clashes, as reported by the Polish Telegraph Agency,
were observed in the vicinity of Bohumin, Teshin and Jablunkov, in the towns of Bystrice, Kon'ska and Skrzechen.
Armed groups of "rebels" repeatedly attacked Czechoslovak arms depots,
Polish planes violated the Czechoslovak border every day.
In the newspaper "Pravda" 1938. September 27. N267 (7592) an article is published on page 1
"The unbridled impudence of the Polish fascists."
September 28, 1938. Armed provocations continue.
In the newspaper "Pravda" 1938. September 28. N268 (7593) On S.5. article is published
"Provocations of Polish fascists."
September 29, 1938. Polish diplomats in London and Paris insist
on “an equal approach to solving the Sudeten and Cieszyn problems”, Polish and German military
agree on the line of demarcation of troops in the event of an invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Czech newspapers describe touching scenes of “combat brotherhood” between German fascists
and Polish nationalists.
A Czechoslovakian border post near Grgava was attacked by a gang of 20 people armed with automatic weapons.
The attack was repulsed, the attackers fled to Poland, and one of them, being wounded, was captured.
During interrogation, the captured bandit said that in their detachment there were many Germans living in Poland. 
This photo is for every Polish home!
Touching handshake between Polish Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigła and German attaché Colonel
Bogislawa von Studnitz at the Independence Day parade in Warsaw on November 11, 1938
December 28, 1938. In a conversation with a counselor at the German Embassy in Poland
Rudolf von Schelia with the newly appointed Polish envoy to Iran J. Karszo-Sedlevsky, the latter declares: “The political perspective for the European East is clear.
In a few years, Germany will be at war with the Soviet Union, and Poland will support,
voluntarily or forcedly, Germany in this war.
It is better for Poland to definitely take the side of Germany before the conflict,
since the territorial interests of Poland in the west and the political goals of Poland in the east,
primarily in Ukraine, can only be achieved through a previously reached Polish-German agreement.
He, Karsho-Sedlewski, will subordinate his activities as the Polish envoy in Tehran to the implementation of this great Eastern concept, since it is necessary in the end to convince and motivate also
Persians and Afghans to play an active role in the future war against the Soviets."
Goering in Poland
The attitude of pre-war Poland towards Russia
Polish position, towards Russia and the hopes of the Polish elite for the German Nazis,
as documents show, it was not a spontaneous decision, it was formed over the years.
Even during the visits of “Nazi No. 2”, G. Goering, to Warsaw in 1935 and 1937
The parties reached an agreement that Poland will support Germany's demands to lift restrictions
in terms of weapons and the idea of the Anschluss of Austria.
Germany, in turn, expressed its readiness, together with Poland, to counteract
policy of the Soviet Union in Europe.
In a conversation with Marshal Rydz-Smigly, Goering stated that “Not only Bolshevism is dangerous, but Russia as such”
and that “in this sense, the interests of Poland and Germany coincide.” 
Goering and Polish President Moscicki hunting in Belovezhskaya Pushcha
August 31, 1937 The Polish General Staff issued directive No. 2304/2/37, which states,
what's the ultimate the goal of Polish policy is “the destruction of all Russia”,
and as one of the effective tools for achieving it is named inciting separatism
in the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia using, in particular, military intelligence capabilities.
It would seem that in the threatening situation into which Poland was crawling,
the priorities would have to be different.
And in general, what does this have to do with the security of the country? Caucasus?
Nevertheless, it was planned to concentrate personnel, operational and financial
resources to strengthen work with Caucasian emigration of a separatist persuasion, having as
the ultimate goal of destabilization using all forces and means, including instruments of secret war,
internal political situation in this part of the Soviet Union, which
during the war it becomes the deep rear of the Red Army.
These are the approaches and absolutely groundless hopes for a German-Polish anti-Soviet alliance
and led to the fact that the Anglo-French-Soviet negotiations between the military delegations had to be curtailed
just a week before the start of the war, the first victim of which was Poland.
Therefore, the telegrams of the Polish ambassador in Washington, who,
Having the instructions of his government, he assured US Secretary of State K. Hull that Warsaw did not see itself as a threat from Germany.
Moreover, he was irritated that some American politicians
consider the Soviet Union and its army to be the only force that can resist the Wehrmacht
in the event of Germany starting a war (telegrams from E. Pototsky to the Foreign Ministry on November 8 and December 15, 1937).
In October 1938, Ambassador in Berlin Yu. Lipsky, in an upbeat tone, informed Minister Yu. Beck about
the “more than favorable” attitude of the top officials of the Reich towards Poland and the high assessment of its policies by the Fuhrer personally. 
Friendly visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nazi Reich, adviser to Adolf Hitler
Foreign Policy, Standartenführer SS Joachim von Ribbentrop to Poland. 
From Angola to Antarctica
Polish policy outside the “eastern territories” was no less “peaceful.”
The “plans for Polish colonies” looked especially absurd and grotesque.
Poland seriously believed that its status as a “great power” required colonies in Africa and Asia,
so that it’s “like everyone else!”
For this purpose, in October 1930, either a government or a public organization was created
The Maritime and Colonial League (Liga Morska I Kolonialna), of which almost a million Poles – future colonists – became members. The Poles rushed to look for empty lands suitable for arable land and seize them,
how did it happen in Brazil, Liberia and Mozambique.
Friendly visit of the Italian fascist Gian Galeazzo Ciano to Poland.
February 1939.
IN Angola they began to develop farmland, but plans to create plantations
was not destined to come true - the Portuguese government, concerned about such an unexpected development of events,
complicated immigration procedures in the colonies, and also began to focus quite
a lot of unnecessary attention to Polish settlers.
As a result, most of the Polish planters were forced to leave Angola after 1938.
Concerning, Madagascar, then Foreign Minister Beck begged from France
permission to use this island for the resettlement of Polish Jews at the request of “world Jewry”.
Work began to boil and an important delegation visited the island.
However, Madagascar was not destined to become the second Israel - the war began,
which buried these plans.
Poland was keenly interested and Antarctica- in Washington just before the war
the Poles were persistently interested in how the Americans would perceive their appearance on this continent.
In Poland itself, public holidays began to be organized - Sea Week and Colonial Days,
where the Poles were instilled with a taste for colonialism.
Poland pestered the League of Nations with a request to transfer part (up to 9%) to Poland
German colonies (due to the fact that Poland was partially the “successor” of Germany in terms of territories) -
Togo and Cameroon"which no one needs anyway."
The result of the entire campaign 1936-37 appeared issued by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
"Colonial Theses of Poland".
The leadership of the USSR in August 1939 acted deliberately and correctly.
He hit his enemy with the weapon that he planned to use against Russia - an agreement with Germany.
Unfair saying. Because among ordinary Poles there are enough honest and sincere people. This saying fully applies to the Polish elite. It was she who was always distinguished by extreme predation, national arrogance and stupidity.
The Polish hyena once again showed itself on the anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War, when the Polish Sejm adopted amendments to the decommunization law, according to which two hundred monuments to Soviet and Polish soldiers, allegedly “glorifying communism,” are subject to demolition.
I’ll say right away about the “hyena of Europe”...
Now on the Internet you can find a lot of quotes from historical figures that they never said.
W. Churchill called Poland the hyena of Europe. I specifically looked into his book “The Second World War” and found this statement.
Quote:
“And now, when all these advantages and all this help have been lost and discarded, England, leading France, offers to guarantee the integrity of Poland - t oh Poland itself, which just six months ago with the greed of a hyena took part in the robbery and destruction of the Czechoslovak state.”
Russian-Polish relations have a difficult background. People's memory has preserved who Ivan Susanin led through the swamps and on whose peaks the Tushino thief came to Moscow during the Great Troubles.
The famous partisan and poet, hero of the War of 1812 Denis Davydov, who was declared enemy No. 1 in Poland during his lifetime, wrote:
Poles, do not fight with the Russians:
We will swallow you up in Lithuania and dump you in Kamchatka!
As you know, the Poles took an active part in the invasion of Russia by Napoleon’s “Great Army”.
But Denis Davydov could think whatever he wanted, and God’s anointed Russian emperors bestowed the greatest affection and privileges on precisely those national territories that were most heavily infected with Russophobia.
Even then, many memoirists noted a common Polish defect - arrogance in success and servility in defeat. These features of the national character of the Poles were used to the maximum by the hyena of Europe - the Polish elite.
After the collapse of autocracy in Russia, Poland gained independence not only de facto, but also de jure. And as soon as this happened, the hyena (the Polish elite) began to think: the corpse of which empire it should devour. The situation was favorable: in the west, the Kaiser’s Germany was struggling in its agony, in the east, Russia was seething.
Those who wanted to tear the meat of Germany were called the Piast line. Those who wanted to devour large chunks of Russia were also called supporters of the Jagiellonian line. Józef Piłsudski was also a Jagiellonian.
The leader of the anti-Soviet underground, Boris Savinkov, also settled there in Poland.
In 1919, Supreme Ruler of Russia Admiral Kolchak recognized the independence of Poland and proclaimed by the Provisional Government back in 1917. This is about the question of how the Bolsheviks “destroyed Russia”, and the Belodelites fought for “one and indivisible”. The white General Denikin (Pole on his mother’s side) also had a favorable attitude towards Polish independence.
After this, white armed formations began to be created on Polish territory with the help of the Germans and Americans. At the end of March 1920, on behalf of the French Marshal F. Foch, General P. Henri developed a plan for Pilsudski’s attack on Kyiv.
And this concerns the question of who was the real initiator of the Soviet-Polish war.
At first, the White Poles managed to capture Kyiv, but soon the Red Army launched a counteroffensive and the hyena retreated back. On the side of the White Poles, the People's Volunteer Army of General S. Bulak-Balakhovich, the 3rd Russian Army of General B. Permikin, the Cossack brigades of Yesauls V. Yakovlev, A. Salnikov and the combat detachments of B. Savinkov, created by the decision of the Polish General Staff, also fought against Soviet Russia. .
The Orthodox clergy also actively helped the Pilsudians. The Poranna Courier newspaper noted:
“Regardless of the political aspirations of the Orthodox clergy, the Polish state will find great support in it in the fight against the Bolshevik anti-state agitation, the goal of which is to separate the Kres from Poland.”
Hyena “thanked” her helpers - the White Russians who remained in Poland were placed in Polish concentration camps at the end of the Soviet-Polish war.
She also “thanked” the Orthodox priests - religious buildings belonging to the Orthodox Church, its lands, meadows, and forests began to be transferred to the Polish Catholic Church. By order of the president in 1927, 146 thousand hectares of arable land and forests that were in the possession of the Orthodox Church were confiscated in favor of the state. Of these, 73 thousand hectares were later transferred to the Catholic clergy.
Traitors are not valued anywhere.
In order to replenish the treasury, B. Savinkov sent articles to Russian emigrant newspapers describing the plight of “Russian heroes” in Polish camps, who “suffered the horrors of internecine war, were freezing, starving and lay with typhus on the cold ground.” However, his passionate appeals did not find a response in the Russian emigration.
In this sense, the White Poles differed little from the White Finns, who took pleasure in killing thousands of White Russians.
Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky has not yet proposed erecting a monument to Pilsudski.
How strange!
The surviving whites later joined the EMRO and during the Second World War they were massively used by the Nazis as saboteurs and punitive forces on the territory of the Soviet Union.
It is now customary to recognize all states that became the target of German aggression during the Second World War as victims, but this is wrong.
The hyena has always been a hyena.
Since June 1934, the country's top political leadership began to receive information from the foreign department of the OGPU from an agent from the inner circle of Marshal Pilsudski. The identity of the agent is currently unknown for certain, but the information received from him until the spring of 1935 was of such a serious and alarming nature that on the first report, Secretary General I.V. Stalin made a note with his own hand “Molotov, Voroshilov, Ordzhonikidze, Kuibyshev. I advise you to read it and then discuss it with the participation of the NKID", and next to them are their signatures indicating familiarity.
In an extensive report, the source reported that influential military-political and financial-political groups operate in the European international arena, coordinating the activities of potential aggressors - Germany, Japan and Poland. In France it is the Tardieu-Weygand group, and in England it is Norman-Hailsham.
The first tandem planned to come to power by proxy, abandon the policy of rapprochement with the USSR and conclude a pact with Germany. The second powerful duo coordinated from London the process of Franco-German-Polish rapprochement and the campaign of pitting Japan against the Soviet Far East.
Few people know and sometimes it’s hard to believe, but back in the 30s, Poland, together with Japan, developed plans for an attack on the USSR. The foreign department of the OGPU informed I.V. on March 19, 1932. Stalin, citing a source in the French General Staff, that in the fall of 1931 two Japanese officers visited Warsaw, as a result of which a written agreement was signed between the Japanese General Staff and the General Staff of the Polish Army.
According to him “Poland must be ready to draw back the Bolshevik forces when the Japanese begin to advance into the territory of the USSR.”
Soviet intelligence documents from the “personal archive of I.V. Stalin" indicate that secret Polish-Japanese military cooperation was carried out over three stages.
The first was in the autumn of 1931, when an agreement was signed between the Japanese General Staff and the General Staff of the Polish Army, which provided for the diversion of Red Army forces by Polish troops after Japan's attack on the Soviet Far East.
The second was the summer of 1934, when Pilsudski received a letter from the former Minister of War S. Araki, confirming their readiness to attack the USSR at any time if Berlin and Warsaw promised to join the aggression on the western borders the next day.
Finally, the third is the winter of 1934 - the spring of 1935, when some distancing occurs between the Polish and Japanese military in connection with Pilsudski's attempt to revise the invasion of Polish troops at a later date.
Then the hyena tore pieces of Czechoslovakia, having been defeated by Germany in 1939, and having actually lost statehood, the “Polish hyena” prepared troops for the invasion of the USSR on the side of Finland. And only England’s delay did not allow the hyena to bite the future liberator of Poland.
In 1939, after the outbreak of the Winter War, the Polish government in London declared war on the USSR. I couldn’t find any information when Poland’s “heroic” war with the Soviet Union ended. But it is known that in August 1941 a military agreement between the USSR and Poland was signed. This is how an army of parasites and parasites appeared on the territory of the USSR - Anders' army, which, without firing a single shot at the Germans, was evacuated to the Middle East.
Then there was the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, when a hyena tried to prevent Soviet troops from entering Germany.
But besides the Polish hyena - its elite, there has always been the Polish people.
Here is how Soviet translator Elena Rzhevskaya describes the liberation of the city of Bydgoszcz at the end of the Great Patriotic War:
“Six days after the liberation of Warsaw, our units captured the city of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz in Polish) and went forward, pursuing the retreating enemy. The streets were unusually lively. The entire Polish population of Bydgoszcz poured out of their homes. People hugged, cried, laughed. And everyone has a red and white national flag on their chest. The children ran around and squealed at the top of their lungs and were delighted with their own squealing. Many of them did not even know that their voice had such wonderful capabilities, while others, the older ones, forgot about it during the five dark years of oppression, fear, lack of rights, when it was not even allowed to speak loudly. As soon as a Russian appeared on the street, a crowd immediately grew around him. In the streams of people, in the ringing of children’s voices, the city seemed like spring, despite the January cold and the falling snow.”
Together with Soviet soldiers, Poland was also liberated by soldiers of the Polish Army formed in the USSR. They fought the Nazis together and died together.
After the war, monuments were erected on their often joint graves. Often with communist symbols.
Now the hyena will destroy these monuments.
I remember how at the memorial in Katyn the Russian President tried to hug the then Polish President Tusk. But wherever you hug Tusk, his ass is everywhere!
The article often raised the idea that Poland itself was to blame for its troubles. I don’t presume to assess Poland’s guilt, but the fact that it was far from an angelic country is confirmed by this article. Its original is on the author Olga Tonina.
"...the same Poland that just six months ago, with the greed of a hyena, took part in the robbery and destruction of the Czechoslovak state."
(W. Churchill, "The Second World War")
In the history of every state, there are heroic pages of which this state is proud. There are such heroic pages in the history of Poland. One of these glorious pages of Polish history is Operation Zaluzhye - the armed occupation by Polish troops of part of the territory of Czechoslovakia, which occurred 11 months before the start of World War II.
A brief chronology of events from such a glorious page in the history of the Polish state:
February 23, 1938. Beck, in negotiations with Goering, declares Poland’s readiness to take into account German interests in Austria and emphasized Poland’s interest “in the Czech problem”
March 17, 1938. Poland presents an ultimatum to Lithuania demanding the conclusion of a convention guaranteeing the rights of the Polish minority in Lithuania, as well as the abolition of the paragraph of the Lithuanian constitution proclaiming Vilna as the capital of Lithuania. (Vilna was illegally captured by the Poles several years ago and incorporated into Poland). Polish troops are concentrated on the Polish-Lithuanian border. Lithuania agreed to receive the Polish representative. If the ultimatum was rejected within 24 hours, the Poles threatened to march to Kaunas and occupy Lithuania. The Soviet government, through the Polish ambassador in Moscow, recommended not to infringe on the freedom and independence of Lithuania. Otherwise, it will denounce without warning the Polish-Soviet non-aggression pact and, in the event of an armed attack on Lithuania, will reserve freedom of action. Thanks to this intervention, the danger of an armed conflict between Poland and Lithuania was averted. The Poles limited their demands on Lithuania to one point - the establishment of diplomatic relations - and refused an armed invasion of Lithuania.
May 1938. The Polish government concentrates several formations in the Teszyn area (three divisions and one brigade of border troops).
August 11, 1938 - in a conversation with Lipsky, the German side announced an understanding of Poland’s interest in the territory of Soviet Ukraine
September 8-11, 1938. In response to the readiness expressed by the Soviet Union to come to the aid of Czechoslovakia, both against Germany and against Poland, the largest military maneuvers in the history of the revived Polish state were organized on the Polish-Soviet border, in which 5 infantry and 1 cavalry divisions, 1 motorized brigade, as well as aviation. The “reds” advancing from the east were completely defeated by the “blues”. The maneuvers ended with a grandiose 7-hour parade in Lutsk, which was personally received by the “supreme leader” Marshal Rydz-Smigly.
September 19, 1938 - Lipsky brings to the attention of Hitler the opinion of the Polish government that Czechoslovakia is an artificial entity and supports Hungarian claims to the territory of Carpathian Ruthenia
September 20, 1938 - Hitler declares to Lipsky that in the event of a military conflict between Poland and Czechoslovakia over the Cieszyn region, the Reich will side with Poland, that beyond the line of German interests Poland has completely free hands, that he sees a solution to the Jewish problem through emigration to the colonies in agreement with Poland, Hungary and Romania.
September 21, 1938 - Poland sent a note to Czechoslovakia demanding a solution to the problem of the Polish national minority in Cieszyn Silesia.
September 22, 1938 - the Polish government urgently announces the denunciation of the Polish-Czechoslovak Treaty on National Minorities, and a few hours later announces an ultimatum to Czechoslovakia on the annexation of lands with a Polish population to Poland. On behalf of the so-called “Union of Silesian Insurgents” in Warsaw, recruitment into the “Cieszyn Volunteer Corps” was launched completely openly. The formed detachments of “volunteers” are sent to the Czechoslovak border, where they organize armed provocations and sabotage.
September 23, 1938. The Soviet government warned the Polish government that if Polish troops concentrated on the border with Czechoslovakia invaded its borders, the USSR would consider this an act of unprovoked aggression and would denounce the non-aggression pact with Poland. The Polish government responded in the evening of the same day. His tone was arrogant as usual. It explained that it was carrying out some military activities only for defensive purposes.
September 24, 1938. Newspaper "Pravda" 1938. September 24. N264 (7589). on S.5. publishes the article “Polish fascists are preparing a putsch in Cieszyn Silesia.” Later, on the night of September 25, in the town of Konské near Třinec, the Poles threw hand grenades and fired at houses in which Czechoslovak border guards were located, as a result of which two buildings burned down. After a two-hour battle, the attackers retreated into Polish territory. Similar clashes occurred that night in a number of other places in the Teshin region.
September 25, 1938. The Poles raided the Frishtat railway station, fired at it and threw grenades at it.
September 27, 1938. The Polish government is putting forward a repeated demand for the “return” of the Cieszyn region to it. Throughout the night, rifle and machine gun fire, grenade explosions, etc. were heard in almost all areas of the Teshin region. The bloodiest clashes, as reported by the Polish Telegraph Agency, were observed in the vicinity of Bohumin, Cieszyn and Jablunkov, in the towns of Bystrice, Konska and Skrzechen. Armed groups of “rebels” repeatedly attacked Czechoslovakian weapons depots, and Polish planes violated the Czechoslovakian border every day. In the newspaper "Pravda" 1938. September 27. N267 (7592) on page 1 the article “The unbridled impudence of the Polish fascists” is published
September 28, 1938. Armed provocations continue. In the newspaper "Pravda" 1938. September 28. N268 (7593) On S.5. The article “Provocations of Polish Fascists” is published.
September 29, 1938. Polish diplomats in London and Paris insist on an equal approach to solving the Sudeten and Cieszyn problems, Polish and German military officers agree on the line of demarcation of troops in the event of an invasion of Czechoslovakia. Czech newspapers describe touching scenes of “combat brotherhood” between German fascists and Polish nationalists. A Czechoslovakian border post near Grgava was attacked by a gang of 20 people armed with automatic weapons. The attack was repulsed, the attackers fled to Poland, and one of them, being wounded, was captured. During interrogation, the captured bandit said that in their detachment there were many Germans living in Poland. On the night of September 29-30, 1938, the infamous Munich Agreement was concluded.
September 30, 1938. Warsaw presented Prague with a new ultimatum, which was to be answered within 24 hours, demanding immediate satisfaction of its claims, where it demanded the immediate transfer of the border region of Cieszyn to it. Newspaper "Pravda" 1938. September 30. N270 (7595) on S.5. publishes an article: “The provocations of the aggressors do not stop. “Incidents” at the borders.”
October 1, 1938. Czechoslovakia cedes to Poland an area where 80 thousand Poles and 120 thousand Czechs lived. However, the main gain is the industrial potential of the captured territory. At the end of 1938, the enterprises located there produced almost 41% of the pig iron produced in Poland and almost 47% of the steel.
October 2, 1938. Operation "Zaluzhye". Poland occupies Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen - Frištát - Bohumin region) and some settlements on the territory of modern Slovakia.
How did the world react to these actions of the Poles?
From W. Churchill's book "The Second World War", volume 1, "The Gathering Storm"
"Chapter Eighteen"
"MUNICH WINTER"
“On September 30, Czechoslovakia bowed to the Munich decisions. “We want,” said the Czechs, “to declare before the whole world our protest against decisions in which we did not participate.” President Benes resigned because “he might end up an obstacle to the development of events to which our new state must adapt." Beneš left Czechoslovakia and found refuge in England. The dismemberment of the Czechoslovak state proceeded in accordance with the agreement. However, the Germans were not the only predators tormenting the corpse of Czechoslovakia. Immediately after the conclusion of the Munich Agreement on September 30 The Polish government sent an ultimatum to the Czech government, which was to be responded to within 24 hours. The Polish government demanded the immediate transfer of the border region of Cieszyn to it. There was no way to resist this brutal demand.
The heroic character traits of the Polish people should not force us to close our eyes to their recklessness and ingratitude, which over the course of several centuries caused them immeasurable suffering. In 1919, this was a country that the Allied victory, after generations of partition and slavery, had transformed into an independent republic and one of the major European powers. Now, in 1938, because of such an insignificant issue as Teshin, the Poles broke with all their friends in France, in England and in the USA, which had brought them back to a united national life and whose help they were soon to need so badly. We saw how now, while the reflection of the power of Germany was falling on them, they hastened to seize their share in the plunder and ruin of Czechoslovakia. At the moment of crisis, all doors were closed to the English and French ambassadors. They were not even allowed to see the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. It must be considered a mystery and tragedy of European history that a people capable of any heroism, some of whose representatives are talented, valiant, and charming, constantly displays such huge shortcomings in almost all aspects of their public life. Glory in times of rebellion and sorrow; infamy and shame during periods of triumph. The bravest of the brave have too often been led by the foulest of the foul! And yet, there have always been two Polands: one of them fought for truth, and the other grovelled in meanness.
We have yet to tell of the failure of their military preparations and plans; about the arrogance and mistakes of their policies; about the terrible massacres and deprivations to which they doomed themselves with their madness."
Appetite, as you know, comes with eating. Before the Poles had time to celebrate the capture of the Cieszyn region, they had new plans:
December 28, 1938 In a conversation between the counselor of the German embassy in Poland, Rudolf von Schelia, and the newly appointed Polish envoy to Iran, J. Karsho-Sedlevsky, the latter states: “The political perspective for the European East is clear. In a few years, Germany will be at war with the Soviet Union, and Poland will support Germany, voluntarily or forcedly, in this war. For Poland, it is better to definitely take the side of Germany before the conflict, since Poland’s territorial interests are in the west and Poland's political goals in the east, especially in Ukraine, can only be achieved through a previously reached Polish-German agreement. He, Karsho-Sedlewski, will subordinate his activities as the Polish envoy in Tehran to the implementation of this great eastern concept, as is necessary in the end. finally convince and induce also the Persians and Afghans to play an active role in the future war against the Soviets."
December 1938. From the report of the 2nd department (intelligence department) of the main headquarters of the Polish Army: “The dismemberment of Russia lies at the heart of Polish policy in the East... Therefore, our possible position will boil down to the following formula: who will take part in the division. Poland must not remain passive at this remarkable historical moment. The task is to prepare well in advance physically and spiritually... The main goal is the weakening and defeat of Russia.”(see Z dziejow stosunkow polsko-radzieckich. Studia i materialy. T. III. Warszawa, 1968, str. 262, 287.)
January 26, 1939. In a conversation with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Beck, held in Warsaw, states: "Poland lays claim to Soviet Ukraine and access to the Black Sea."
March 4, 1939. The Polish command, after lengthy economic, political and operational studies, completed the development of a plan for the war against the USSR. "East" ("Vshud").(see Centralne Archiwum Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnetrznych, R-16/1).
However, here the Poles were faced with another opportunity to once again play the role of a hyena and rob for free, hiding behind the back of a stronger neighbor, because she, Poland, was lured by the opportunity to rob a neighbor richer than the USSR:
March 17, 1939. Chamberlain made a sharp speech in Birmingham against Germany, in which he declared that England would make contact with other like-minded powers. This speech marked the beginning of a policy of encircling Germany with alliances with other states. Financial negotiations between England and Poland have begun; military negotiations with Poland in London; General Ironside pays a visit to Warsaw.
March 20, 1939. Hitler put forward a proposal to Poland: to agree to the inclusion of the city of Danzig in Germany and to the creation of an extraterritorial corridor that would connect Germany with East Prussia.
March 21, 1939. Ribbentrop, in a conversation with the Polish ambassador, again presented demands for Danzig (Gdansk), as well as the right to build an extraterritorial railway and highway that would connect Germany with East Prussia.
March 22, 1939. In Poland, the beginning of the first partial and covert mobilization (five formations) was announced in order to provide cover for the mobilization and concentration of the main forces of the Polish army.
March 24, 1939. The Polish government submitted a proposal for an Anglo-Polish pact to the British government.
March 26, 1939. The Polish government issues a memorandum in which, according to Ribbentrop, "the German proposals for the return of Danzig and extraterritorial transport routes through the corridor were unceremoniously rejected." Ambassador Lipsky stated: “Any further pursuit of the goals of these German plans, and especially those related to the return of Danzig to the Reich, means war with Poland.” Ribbentrop again verbally repeated the German demands: the unambiguous return of Danzig, an extraterritorial connection with East Prussia, a 25-year non-aggression pact with a guarantee of borders, as well as cooperation on the Slovak question in the form of the neighboring states accepting the defense of this area.
March 31, 1939. British Prime Minister H. Chamberlain announced Anglo-French military guarantees for Poland in connection with the threat of aggression from Germany. As Churchill wrote on this occasion in his memoirs: “And now, when all these advantages and all this help have been lost and discarded, England, leading France, offers to guarantee the integrity of Poland - the same Poland that just six months ago With the greed of a hyena, she took part in the robbery and destruction of the Czechoslovak state."
And how did the Poles react to the desire of England and France to protect them from German aggression and the guarantees they received? They began to transform into a greedy hyena again! And now they were sharpening their teeth to grab a piece of Germany. As the American researcher Henson Baldwin, who worked as the military editor of the New York Times during the war, noted in his book:
“They were proud and overconfident, living in the past. Many Polish soldiers, imbued with the military spirit of their people and their traditional hatred of the Germans, talked and dreamed of a “march on Berlin.” Their hopes are well reflected in the words of one of the songs:
...clad in steel and armor,
Led by Rydz-Smigly,
We will march to the Rhine..."
How did this madness end? On September 1, 1939, “Clad in steel and armor” and led by Rydz-Smigly began to march in the opposite direction, towards the border with Romania. And less than a month later, Poland disappeared from the geographical map for seven years, along with its ambitions and habits of a hyena. In 1945, she reappeared, paying for her madness with six million Poles' lives. The blood of six million Polish lives cooled the madness of the Polish government for almost 50 years. But nothing lasts forever, and again the cries about Greater Poland “from mozh to mozh” begin to be heard louder and louder, and the already familiar greedy grin of a hyena begins to appear in Polish politics.
Now is the time to remember what Poland was like at that time, for the sake of saving which from Hitler we had to join forces with England and France.
As soon as it was born, the revived Polish state started armed conflicts with all its neighbors, trying to expand its borders as much as possible.
Czechoslovakia was no exception, a territorial dispute with which flared up over the former Principality of Cieszyn.
That time nothing worked out for the Poles. On July 28, 1920, during the Red Army's attack on Warsaw, an agreement was signed in Paris according to which Poland ceded the Cieszyn region to Czechoslovakia in exchange for the latter's neutrality in the Polish-Soviet war.
Nevertheless, the Poles, in the words of the famous satirical writer Mikhail Zoshchenko, “harboured rudeness” and, when the Germans demanded the Sudetenland from Prague, they decided that the right opportunity had come to get their way. On January 14, 1938, Hitler received Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Beck.
“The Czech state in its current form cannot be preserved, because as a result of the disastrous policy of the Czechs in Central Europe, it represents an unsafe place - a communist hotbed”, - said the leader of the Third Reich. Of course, as stated in the official Polish report on the meeting, "Mr. Beck warmly supported the Fuhrer". This audience marked the beginning of Polish-German consultations regarding Czechoslovakia.
At the height of the Sudeten crisis, on September 21, 1938, Poland presented Czechoslovakia with an ultimatum to “return” the Cieszyn region to it. On September 27, a repeated demand followed. Anti-Czech hysteria was whipped up in the country. On behalf of the so-called “Union of Silesian Insurgents” in Warsaw, recruitment into the “Cieszyn Volunteer Corps” was launched completely openly. The formed detachments of “volunteers” were sent to the Czechoslovak border, where they staged armed provocations and sabotage.
So, on the night of September 25, in the town of Konské near Třinec, the Poles threw hand grenades and fired at houses in which Czechoslovak border guards were located, as a result of which two buildings burned down. After a two-hour battle, the attackers retreated into Polish territory. Similar clashes took place that night in a number of other places in the Cieszyn region. The next night, the Poles raided the Frištát railway station, fired at it and threw grenades at it.
On September 27, throughout the night, rifle and machine gun fire, grenade explosions, etc. were heard in almost all areas of the Cieszyn region. The bloodiest clashes, as reported by the Polish Telegraph Agency, were observed in the vicinity of Bohumin, Cieszyn and Jablunkov, in the towns of Bystrice, Konska and Skrzechen. Armed groups of “rebels” repeatedly attacked Czechoslovakian weapons depots, and Polish planes violated the Czechoslovakian border every day.
The Poles closely coordinated their actions with the Germans. Polish diplomats in London and Paris insisted on an equal approach to solving the Sudeten and Cieszyn problems, while the Polish and German military agreed on the line of demarcation of troops in the event of an invasion of Czechoslovakia.
At the same time, one could observe touching scenes of “combat brotherhood” between German fascists and Polish nationalists. Thus, according to a report from Prague on September 29, a gang of 20 people armed with automatic weapons attacked the Czechoslovak border post near Grgava. The attack was repulsed, the attackers fled to Poland, and one of them, being wounded, was captured. During interrogation, the captured bandit said that in their detachment there were many Germans living in Poland.
As you know, the Soviet Union expressed its readiness to come to the aid of Czechoslovakia, both against Germany and against Poland. In response, on September 8-11, the largest military maneuvers in the history of the revived Polish state were organized on the Polish-Soviet border, in which 5 infantry and 1 cavalry divisions, 1 motorized brigade, as well as aviation took part. As one would expect, the “reds” advancing from the east were completely defeated by the “blues”. The maneuvers ended with a grandiose 7-hour parade in Lutsk, which was personally received by the “supreme leader” Marshal Rydz-Smigly.
In turn, the Soviet side announced on September 23 that if Polish troops entered Czechoslovakia, the USSR would denounce the non-aggression pact it had concluded with Poland in 1932.
As mentioned above, on the night of September 29-30, 1938, the infamous Munich Agreement was concluded. In an effort to “pacify” Hitler at any cost, England and France cynically surrendered their ally Czechoslovakia to him. On the same day, September 30, Warsaw presented Prague with a new ultimatum, demanding immediate satisfaction of its claims. As a result, on October 1, Czechoslovakia ceded to Poland an area where 80 thousand Poles and 120 thousand Czechs lived. However, the main acquisition was the industrial potential of the captured territory. At the end of 1938, the enterprises located there produced almost 41% of the pig iron produced in Poland and almost 47% of the steel.
As Churchill wrote about this in his memoirs, Poland “with the greed of a hyena she took part in the robbery and destruction of the Czechoslovak state”. An equally flattering zoological comparison is given in his book by the previously quoted American researcher Baldwin: “Poland and Hungary, like vultures, tore off pieces of a dying divided state.”.
Today in Poland they are trying to forget this page of their history. Thus, the authors of the book “The History of Poland from Ancient Times to the Present Day,” published in Warsaw in 1995, Alicja Dybkowska, Malgorzata Zaryn and Jan Zharyn managed not to mention their country’s participation in the partition of Czechoslovakia at all:
“The interests of Poland were indirectly jeopardized by the policy of concessions by Western states to Hitler. Thus, in 1935, he introduced universal conscription in Germany, thereby violating the Versailles agreements; in 1936, Hitler's troops occupied the Rhineland demilitarized zone, and in 1938 his army entered Austria. The next target of German expansion was Czechoslovakia.
Despite the protests of its government, in September 1938 in Munich, France, Great Britain and Italy signed a treaty with Germany giving the Third Reich the right to occupy the Czech Sudetenland, inhabited by a German minority. In the face of what was happening, it became clear to Polish diplomats that now it was the turn to violate the Versailles regulations on the Polish issue.”.
Of course, is it possible to be indignant at the participation of the USSR in the “fourth partition of Poland” if it becomes known that they themselves are in the dust? And Molotov’s phrase about Poland as an ugly child of the Treaty of Versailles, so shocking to the progressive public, turns out to be just a copy of Pilsudski’s earlier statement about "the artificially and monstrously created Czechoslovak Republic".
Well, then, in 1938, no one was going to be ashamed. On the contrary, the capture of the Cieszyn region was considered a national triumph. Józef Beck was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, although for such a “feat”, say, the Order of the Spotted Hyena would have been more suitable. In addition, the grateful Polish intelligentsia presented him with the titles of honorary doctor of the Warsaw and Lviv universities. Polish propaganda was choking with delight. Thus, on October 9, 1938, Gazeta Polska wrote: “...the road open to us to a sovereign, leading role in our part of Europe requires in the near future enormous efforts and the resolution of incredibly difficult tasks”.
The triumph was somewhat overshadowed only by the fact that Poland was not invited to join the four great powers that signed the Munich Agreement, although it very much counted on it.
This was the Poland of that time, which we, in the opinion of home-grown liberals, were obliged to save at any cost.
Give us room to fight!
As you know, the main stumbling block, because of which the negotiations in Moscow finally reached a dead end, was the issue of allowing Soviet troops through the territory of Poland and Romania. The fact is that at that time the USSR did not have a common border with Germany. Therefore, it was not clear how, in the event of the outbreak of war, we would be able to enter into combat contact with the German army.
At a meeting of military delegations on August 14, 1939, Voroshilov asked a specific question about this: “In general, the outline is clear, but the position of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union is not entirely clear. It is not clear where they are located geographically and how they physically take part in the common struggle.”.
To which General Dumenk, unfolding a map of the USSR and showing the area of the western border, said: “This is a front that the Germans must not cross under any circumstances. And this is the front on which the Soviet Armed Forces should be based.".
This answer did not suit the Soviet side at all. As Voroshilov rightly noted, we were going to defend our borders in any case, regardless of any agreements.
In order for the Red Army to take part in hostilities from the very first days of the war, and not passively wait for Germany to crush Poland and reach the borders of the Soviet Union, our troops had to pass through Polish territory. At the same time, the zones of their passage were strictly limited: the Vilna region (the so-called Vilna corridor) and Galicia.
As the head of the French delegation, General Doumenc, emphasized in a telegram to the French War Ministry dated August 15, 1939: “I note the great importance, from the point of view of eliminating the fears of the Poles, of the fact that the Russians very strictly limit the entry zones[Soviet troops], taking an exclusively strategic point of view".
However, the arrogant Poles did not want to hear about it. As the German Chargé d'Affaires in Great Britain, Theodor Cordt, reported in a telegram to the German Foreign Ministry dated April 18, 1939:
“The Polish Embassy Counselor, whom I met today at a public event, said that both Poland and Romania have consistently refused to accept any offer of assistance from Soviet Russia. Germany, the adviser said, can be sure that Poland will never allow a single soldier of Soviet Russia, be it a member of the ground forces or the air force, to enter its territory.
This puts an end to all speculation in which it was alleged that airfields would be provided as a base for Soviet Russia's air operations against Germany. The same applies to Romania. According to Mr. Yazhdzewski, it is well known that the aviation of Soviet Russia does not have a sufficient range to attack Germany from bases located on the territory of Soviet Russia. Poland thereby again proves that it is a European barrier against Bolshevism.”
Attempts by England and France to achieve a change in Poland's position led nowhere. As Marshal Edward Rydz-Smigly stated on the evening of August 19: “Regardless of the consequences, not a single inch of Polish territory will ever be allowed to be occupied by Russian troops.”.
That same evening, Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Beck informed the French Ambassador in Warsaw, Léon Noel:
“For us this is a fundamental issue: we do not have a military treaty with the USSR; we don't want to have it; I, however, told this to Potemkin. We will not allow the use of part of our territory by foreign troops to be discussed in any form.”.
But perhaps, by setting the passage of our troops through Polish territory as a mandatory condition, we simply wanted to disrupt the agreement? And in fact this requirement was unimportant?
Let’s imagine that the Moscow negotiations ended in success and an agreement on mutual assistance between England, France and the USSR was nevertheless concluded. In this case, after the outbreak of World War 2, three scenarios were possible:
1. Germany delivers the main blow on the Western Front to England and France.
2. The main blow is directed against Poland and, possibly, Romania.
3. The main blow is delivered directly to the territory of the USSR through Finland, Estonia and Latvia.
These three options were outlined in the speech of the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, B. M. Shaposhnikov, at a meeting of three delegations on August 15.
Let's assume that Germany's first blow is delivered on the Western Front. With Poland's permission to use its territory, the Soviet Union would be ready to immediately enter the war. Otherwise, we will not be able to help. All that remains is to watch as Hitler crushes France. Let us remember the events of 1914. If, immediately after the outbreak of World War I, the Russian army had not launched an offensive in East Prussia, forcing the German command to transfer two corps and a cavalry division from the Western Front,
the Germans would have had a very good chance of defeating the French army and thereby winning the war.
Let us now consider the second option - a German attack on Poland. With permission, our troops enter Polish territory and, together with the Polish army, repel the German attack. Otherwise, we will have to wait until Germany defeats Poland and comes directly to our borders. At the same time, as Voroshilov rightly noted:
“I do not dispute the very opinion that Poland and Romania, if they do not ask for help from the USSR, could very quickly become provinces of aggressive Germany.
I must, however, note here [that] our meeting is a meeting of the military missions of three great states and the people representing the Armed Forces of these states should know the following: it is not in our interests, nor in the interests of the Armed Forces of Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union, that additional Armed Forces the forces of Poland and Romania would have been destroyed.
But if they, Poland and Romania, do not promptly ask for help from the Soviet Union, then, according to the admiral’s concept, the Armed Forces of Poland and Romania will be destroyed.”
But besides the use of the Polish Armed Forces, there is another important argument that is not spoken out loud. It is better to fight on foreign territory. If we are not given such an opportunity, we will have to take the battle on our own borders, and on the borders of 1939.
Finally, the third option, the least likely, but at the same time the most unpleasant for the USSR, is if the Germans approach us through the Baltic states and Finland. However, such a development of events cannot be called completely impossible. Both in the Baltic states, and even more so in Finland, pro-German sentiments were very strong. So these countries could well not only let German troops pass through their territory, but also take part in the campaign against the Soviet Union themselves.
In this case, the Poles will definitely not fight, since they do not have any obligations to the USSR. You are also unlikely to get help from England and France. Thus, we are left alone with Germany. If, in response to a German attack, the Red Army strikes Germany through Polish territory, there is no way for Warsaw to avoid participating in the war.
And one can only agree with the opinion of Winston Churchill: “Marshal Voroshilov’s demand, according to which the Russian armies, if they were allies of Poland, would have to occupy Vilnius and Lvov, was a completely expedient military demand.”.
To the above, it should be added that Poland not only did not want Soviet help, but until the last moment continued to plot dirty tricks against our country.
Thus, in the report of the 2nd (intelligence) department of the General Staff of the Polish Army, dated December 1938, it was emphasized: “The dismemberment of Russia lies at the heart of Polish policy in the East... Therefore, our possible position will be reduced to the following formula: who will take part in the division. Poland must not remain passive at this remarkable historical moment. The task is to prepare well in advance physically and spiritually... The main goal is to weaken and defeat Russia.”.
And here is an excerpt from a conversation between the counselor of the German embassy in Poland, Rudolf von Schelia, and the newly appointed Polish envoy to Iran, J. Karsho-Sedlevsky, that took place on December 28, 1938:
“The political outlook for the European East is clear. In a few years, Germany will be at war with the Soviet Union, and Poland will support Germany, voluntarily or forcedly, in this war. For Poland, it is better to definitely take the side of Germany before the conflict, since the territorial interests of Poland in the West and the political goals of Poland in the East, especially in Ukraine, can only be ensured through a previously reached Polish-German agreement.
He, Karsho-Sedlewski, would subordinate his activities as the Polish envoy in Tehran to the implementation of this great Eastern concept, since it was necessary in the end to convince and encourage also the Persians and Afghans to play an active role in the future war against the Soviets. He will devote his activities to this task in the coming years in Tehran."
From a recording of a conversation between German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Beck, which took place on January 26, 1939 in Warsaw: “Mr. Beck did not hide the fact that Poland lays claim to Soviet Ukraine and access to the Black Sea”.
From books by I. Pykhalov “The Great Slandered War”. Links are there too.
The Soviet Union, along with Germany, "significantly contributed" to the outbreak of World War II. This was stated by Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. “It must be remembered that the Soviet Union contributed significantly to the outbreak of World War II and invaded Poland along with Germany. Thus, he is also responsible for the beginning of World War II,” Waszczykowski said. According to him, the USSR participated in World War II “in its own interests,” since it itself was a victim of German aggression.
Who would have thought - the Soviet Union fought in its own interests. And in whose other interests did he need to fight? It just so happened that at the same time the Red Army deprived the Poles of the German governorship general and the “high” rank of subhumans. Moreover, Stalin cut off a fair chunk of Germany to Poland. Now the “grateful” Poles are fighting with our monuments with gusto.
The immortal lines immediately come to mind: “...The Germans were not the only predators who tormented the corpse of Czechoslovakia. Immediately after the conclusion of the Munich Agreement on September 30, the Polish government sent an ultimatum to the Czech government, which was to be responded to within 24 hours. The Polish government demanded the immediate transfer of the border region of Cieszyn to it. There was no way to resist this brutal demand.
The heroic character traits of the Polish people should not force us to close our eyes to their recklessness and ingratitude, which over the course of several centuries caused them immeasurable suffering. In 1919, this was a country that the Allied victory, after generations of partition and slavery, had transformed into an independent republic and one of the major European powers.
Now, in 1938, because of such an insignificant issue as Teshin, the Poles broke with all their friends in France, in England and in the USA, which had brought them back to a united national life and whose help they were soon to need so badly. We saw how now, while the reflection of the power of Germany was falling on them, they hastened to seize their share in the plunder and ruin of Czechoslovakia. At the moment of crisis, all doors were closed to the English and French ambassadors. They were not even allowed to see the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. It must be considered a mystery and tragedy of European history that a people capable of any heroism, some of whose representatives are talented, valiant, and charming, constantly displays such huge shortcomings in almost all aspects of their public life. Glory in times of rebellion and sorrow; infamy and shame during periods of triumph. The bravest of the brave have too often been led by the foulest of the foul! And yet there have always been two Polands: one of them fought for truth, and the other grovelled in meanness..."
You can, of course, as is now customary among supporters of total repentance on behalf of the USSR and the Red Army, call the author of these lines a “communist falsifier”, a “Stalinist”, “convict” that he is a “scoop” with imperial thinking, etc. If it was... not Winston Churchill. It’s hard to suspect this political figure of sympathizing with the USSR.
The question may arise: why did Hitler even need to give Poland the Cieszyn region? The fact is that when Germany presented Czechoslovakia with a demand to transfer to it the Sudetenland inhabited by the Germans, Poland played along with it. At the height of the Sudetenland crisis, on September 21, 1938, Poland presented Czechoslovakia with an ultimatum to “return” the Cieszyn region to it. On September 27, a repeated demand followed. A committee was created to recruit volunteers for the invasion corps. Armed provocations were organized: a Polish detachment crossed the border and fought a two-hour battle on Czechoslovak territory. On the night of September 26, the Poles raided the Frishtat station. Polish planes violated the Czechoslovak border every day.
This is what the Germans had to reward Poland for. Allies in the partition of Czechoslovakia, after all. A few months later, the turn came: “that same Poland, which just six months ago, with the greed of a hyena, took part in the robbery and destruction of the Czechoslovak state.”
After this, the Poles, with inimitable sincerity, are outraged that the USSR dared in 1939 to encroach on the territory that Poland captured in 1919–1920. At the same time, the “greedy hyena”, she is also one of the “predators who tormented the corpse of Czechoslovakia” (all complaints about the rough accuracy of this definition should be addressed to the terribly intolerant and politically incorrect Winston Churchill) came up with the idea of being indignant at the role of its benefactor the USSR in World War II.
You can send them the memoirs of the British Prime Minister in response, let the Polish diplomats read it and prepare an indignant statement for the British.
Maxim Kustov
