Sunday, June 07, 2009

Stalin lives!

It's all making sense now for Pepe: The cynical pact with the Nazis, concluded between Molotov and Ribbentrop a little more than a week before the outbreak of war, is now defended as an essential prelude to the defence against the "inevitable" attack by Hitler. It enabled Russia to occupy half of Poland and the Baltic States. ... The Russian view now is that if only Poland had let Germany have a land corridor to Danzig – then a "free city" but effectively German, with a strong Nazi organisation and surrounded on three sides by Poland in its new, post-Versailles boundaries – there wouldn't have been a Second World War.

1 comment:

Tecumseh said...

Is Russia about to make a demand for a land corridor through Poland to Kaliningrad, for the same reasons that Hitler sought one to Danzig 70 years ago? If so, is Russia intending to argue that the denial by Poland of land access to Königsberg could provoke a big international fight, and possibly terrible destruction, and that it would be Poland's fault for not giving into a "modest" demand?

Naahhh, don't worry, be happy, sez Pepe.