The Russia Thread

[Mightmitenot]

Russia's ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev, accused Poland -- which lost the highest proportion of its population in the conflict -- of "blocking the creation of an anti-Nazi coalition" which made it "co-responsible for World War II".

http://news.yahoo.com/poland-co-responsible-wwii-says-russian-ambassador-150940818.html

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Putin's upcoming UN visit seems to have changed the tone of Russian news. It's covering war in Syria more than war in the Ukraine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/world/on-syria-putin-is-catering-to-an-audience-at-home.html?_r=0

 

[Thundercrack85]

That's actually not entirely inaccurate. Poland was strongly against allowing Red Army troops to move through its territory during the Sudeten Crisis. The French, Czechoslovakian, and Soviets had a shared assistance treaty. The USSR and France had agreed to defend Czechoslovakia in the event of a German invasion, but the logistics proved a serious challenge. The French tried to talk Warsaw into letting the Red Army pass through Polish territory, but they refused, and in large part as a result the anti-Nazi coalition collapsed. Without Polish cooperation, the USSR could not intervene.

Poland also opportunistically annexed Czechoslovakian territory following the Munich Agreement.

Of course the USSR totally lost the moral high ground following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (even without the secret protocols).