Disinfo: Poland and Western democracies cooperated with Hitler
We cannot forget that before the German attack on Poland, the authorities of this country were ready to cooperate with Hitler and were connected to Germany by an agreement. The Poles even attacked Czechoslovakia taking part in the division of spoils. Stalin could not trust in the fact that the Polish Army would not be…
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ACCEPT ALL COOKIESACCEPT ONLY ESSENTIAL COOKIES Skip to main content Հայերեն Беларуская Azərbaycan Українська Română ქართული 中文 (中国) Қазақ тілі English Български Русский Italiano Español Français Deutsch Polski ContentArticles Database Learn Research Videos Guest content About CategoriesUkraine Belarus Moldova Georgia Eastern Partnership China Africa SUBSCRIBE Articles All articles Ukraine Belarus Moldova Georgia Eastern Partnership China Africa Database Learn Research Videos Guest content About en arm by az ua ro ge ru it es fr de pl SUBSCRIBE Back to database DISINFO: Poland and Western democracies cooperated with Hitler DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS Outlet: pl.sputniknews.com(opens in a new tab) ( archived(opens in a new tab)) * Date of publication: May 08, 2020 Outlet language(s): Polish Countries / regions discussed: UK, France, Poland, Germany, Russia Tags: Historical revisionism Anti-Russian USSR WWII Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin Nazi/Fascist DISINFO: Poland and Western democracies cooperated with Hitler SUMMARY We cannot forget that before the German attack on Poland, the authorities of this country were ready to cooperate with Hitler and were connected to Germany by an agreement. The Poles even attacked Czechoslovakia taking part in the division of spoils. Stalin could not trust in the fact that the Polish Army would not be used for a German attack on the USSR. […] It is known that initially, Stalin tried to find allies among Western democracies, which, however, counted on the clash of two totalitarian systems. This conflict would have destroyed their potential, enabling Western capitals to reconstruct devastated Eastern and Central Europe, not without profit for itself. In the 1930s, the Western democracies had enough force to suppress Hitler’s aggression in the bud and the USSR offered them a coalition against Hitler. Although, they were afraid of Bolshevism, so that is why they preferred Hitler. RESPONSE This message is part of the Kremlin’s policy of historical revisionism and an attempt to erode the disastrous historical role of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by the statements that the USSR was forced to sign this pact; other European countries signed various international agreements with Adolf Hitler, Munich Agreement triggered WWII and various historical conspiracies saying that the Western democracies wanted to inspire a war between Nazism and Communism. The claim that Poland was “an ally of Nazi Germany” goes against all available historical documents. Before WWII, Poland had tense political relations with Nazi Germany, which expressed open territorial claims on Poland (revision of the status of the Free City of Danzig and control over the “Polish Corridor”). Despite intense political pressure from Hitler, Poland consistently refused to become part of the Nazi block. According to the pre-war plans of Hitler, Poland was supposed to be part of the “living space”/ Lebensraum for the Third Reich, a large part of its territory was planned to be incorporated into the German state and millions of Poles and Polish Jews were supposed to be exterminated. The Munich Agreement (September 30, 1938), indeed, permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. The policy of appeasement towards Adolf Hitler was heavily criticised in Europe and proved to be a disastrous move. World War II began in Europe one year later, on 1 September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. The signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a mutual decision of two totalitarian regimes (Nazi Germany and the Stalinist USSR) aimed at the division of Eastern and Central Europe between these two powers. It is a proven fact that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact contained the Secret Supplementary Protocol, which assumed the division of Poland and other Eastern European countries between the USSR and Germany. Thus, the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact enabled the German and Soviet military aggression against Poland in September 1939, which resulted in the occupation of this country by Germany and USSR, triggering the beginning of WWII. Read similar examples of the Russian historical revisionism concerning this issue - Signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact thwarted the UK’s expansionist plans in Europe, The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact did not violate the rights of the Polish state, The shift of all blame for WWII outbreak at the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact the best example of manipulation of history. 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