Poland knew that Hitler announced his expansionist plans against the Slavic East in his 1925 infamous manifesto so it was a mistake to participate in chipping apart Czechoslovakia and refusing the Soviets’ overtures for an anti-Nazi alliance thinking that’ll save it. This was the point that President Putin meant to convey in his interview with Tucker, though he wasn’t as clear as he probably thought that he was at the time while speaking impromptu without any notes.
I was impressed that Putin even knew about that obscure bit of Polish history the Poles would sooner forget. The Fascistic, nationalist Polish regime of the interwar years did all sorts of questionable things, not the least of which was double-crossing Hitler, of all people. I don't think it would have made much difference no matter what they did, though. Hitler was pretty clear about his goal of lebensraum.
Perhaps Putin should have mentioned Stalin's offer of a military alliance to Britain and France in early 1939. If Chamberlain and Daladier had accepted it, there never would have been a Molotov-Ribbentrop pact dividing up Poland, and there might not have even been a war.
In any case, history would have been very different.
My understanding is that Britain encouraged the Poles to start killing the large German population that lived in Poland. Have you heard of the Bromberg Massacre? There are other websites and archives, but the claim is this killing of Germans living in Poland was the why Hitler attacked Poland. I am not the scholar you are, but I do research and some call it propaganda. I am uncertain of the truth in this case but first read of it in A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind.
Is that maybe what Putin meant when he said Poland "went too far?" Might he be talking about the Bromberg Massacre. Wasn't the Danzig region populated by ethnic Germans?
I was impressed that Putin even knew about that obscure bit of Polish history the Poles would sooner forget. The Fascistic, nationalist Polish regime of the interwar years did all sorts of questionable things, not the least of which was double-crossing Hitler, of all people. I don't think it would have made much difference no matter what they did, though. Hitler was pretty clear about his goal of lebensraum.
Perhaps Putin should have mentioned Stalin's offer of a military alliance to Britain and France in early 1939. If Chamberlain and Daladier had accepted it, there never would have been a Molotov-Ribbentrop pact dividing up Poland, and there might not have even been a war.
In any case, history would have been very different.
My understanding is that Britain encouraged the Poles to start killing the large German population that lived in Poland. Have you heard of the Bromberg Massacre? There are other websites and archives, but the claim is this killing of Germans living in Poland was the why Hitler attacked Poland. I am not the scholar you are, but I do research and some call it propaganda. I am uncertain of the truth in this case but first read of it in A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind.
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Is that maybe what Putin meant when he said Poland "went too far?" Might he be talking about the Bromberg Massacre. Wasn't the Danzig region populated by ethnic Germans?