WWII
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As it followed from the secret protocols from the Halifax-Raczynski pact (1939), Poland from the very beginning planned to conquer a piece of Lithuania and Romania. Poland was looking for an international crisis to address long-standing border disputes with those countries, but of course noone at that point understood how the war could turn out to be, so they cannot be directly blamed for it.
However this doesn't justify the fact that Poland betrayed their allies, and maybe they could have prevented the war:
1. Poland refused to join the Eastern Pact project proposed by french foreign minister L. Barthou in 1934
2. Immediately after Austria was incorporated in Nazi Germany, Poland made demands to take over a portion of Zaolzie in Czechoslovakia and Vilnius in Lithuania.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/193…3. Refused to join a defensive alliance with Czechoslovakia, again proposed by France in 1938, and refused to help France in case of war with Germany. As we know, that same year Poland out of nothing attacked Czechoslovakia and took over the Tesin district
4. Refused to join a defensive alliance with Romania, as proposed by England and France in 1939. When Germany attacked Poland that year, the first thing Polish army did -- "evacuated" to Romania, of course
5. Refused the Soviet troops to pass through its territory, despite English and French insistence, and thus prevented the conclution of the defensive alliance USSR-France-UK
And this is how WWII started
- Interesting stuff Drgss.Horp
- agreedMau
- I knew we could blame those fuckers!boobs
- You forgot how Hitler demanded corridor to Danzig & Churchill gave Poland guarantees and did shit when it started.raf
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