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To: AdmSmith

From what I’ve read Poland rebuffed any suggestion of a joint defensive treaty with the Soviets. No one had seen the Nazi war machine in action yet and the Poles thought they’d rather go it alone with only British and French promises.


5 posted on 09/17/2017 5:50:55 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

Why would they? The Soviets invaded them in 1920 and were rightfully just as worried about them as Germany.


6 posted on 09/17/2017 6:14:38 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: hardspunned

Stalin was demanding that about 2,000,000 Soviet troops were to be placed in Poland. Poland thought that if they’d allow it then the Soviets would never leave.

Quite justified fear as after Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania allowed Soviet forces on their territory as part of a similar treaties the Soviets used these forces to invade and install puppet governments.


10 posted on 09/17/2017 6:27:00 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: hardspunned
From what I’ve read Poland rebuffed any suggestion of a joint defensive treaty with the Soviets

They correctly considered the Soviets to be worse than the Nazis.

13 posted on 09/17/2017 7:02:54 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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